I did say I would talk about the Hugo Nominations when the nomination statists page was released, and well... here we are. Worldcon23 dropped the data at the last possible second and damn, there is some controversy. Click here for a link to the PDF if you want to follow along. If you aren't interested …
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Welcome to 2024
First week of 2024, and now that I'm all settled in it's time to talk about my plans for the year. Mostly reading and gaming plans, since writing plans are pretty much 'keep on doing what I'm doing'. Book Bingo Card First things first, I have a new Book Bingo Card for 2024. I've just …
Kinda Doing NaNoWrMo
So, I'm kinda doing NaNoWrMo this year. By that, I mean I'm hanging out on the official forums and aiming to write 50,000 words, but I am not starting a new novel. I'm continuing with my current project, a story about a little girl called Astra who lives on a deserted space colony called Amanidas …
Hugo Talk, NaNoWrMo Plans, and Holiday Sketches
Just a quick update on things happening with me. And also a look at the Hugos, though not much since I haven't really been following them this year. I could pretend to be really noble and say I was boycotting them due to China's human right's issues, but whilst that certainly turned me off, I …
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The Complete Neighbor
Hello everyone. It's been a very busy month over here, with my short story The World in a Ramen Cup coming out in Analog and my novella Neighbor going live on this website. To everyone who has discovered this site through Analog, welcome. Sit back, grab a book bingo card, read through my early attempts …
The World in a Ramen Cup
Hello everybody, I'm back with some big news that's been some time in the making. After many years of writing stories, I have finally met Stephen King's criteria for being a talented writer: “If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if …
Neighbor and News
Hello friends. It's been a while since I've updated this blog, and I'm pleased to be back with some big news. And some little news. And also hints of more news to come. So, little news first. I'm on Mastodon now, and hope to make that my main social. I'm still finding my way around …
Hello 2023 – Updates and New Bingo Card
Hello everyone, welcome to 2023. I haven't been very active on my blog lately, but there is still a lot happening behind the scenes that I think you might find interesting. First let's talk about 2022. I published two stories this year for the weekly Reedsy Writing Prompts contest, Paula's Refuge in October and A …
Hugo Finalists 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Hugo Awards have just been released. For the full list, check out the the Hugo Award site here. For here, I'm going to mostly focus on the four written fiction categories; the novel, novella, novelette and short stories. In the novel category, there were a total of 443 works nominated. …
Tour the Sol System Bingo Challenge
I have been itching to make a new book bingo card, and with the year more than half over, it seems like a good time to see if anyone is up for a new reading challenge. I'm doing terrible at my yearly Random Book Bingo Card, but why not start another one? This isn't a …
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