An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I do have to wonder a bit what we’re even doing as a society when writers are fighting tooth and nail to not have their stories be in places where people can still read them.
And yeah, I know… but still.
The line between “stolen” and “lovingly preserved” is so precariously thin these days. Continue reading “The Bubble and the Burning”
If you look at my publication history, I started releasing books a lot faster since AI. I know haters assume I use AI to write. (They give me one-star reviews on books that came out before AI. Rolls eyes.)
The truth is: getting dropped by my publisher made more of a difference. Continue reading “Writing Faster, Getting Back to IaDW2, and Finishing XS3”
“Smile Ex Machina” is the opening track to a ridiculously stupid or maybe ambitious project…
A space opera album inspired by and following the map of Brian Wilson’s SMiLE.
“A masterpiece (or trash?)
The line is thin
We’re walking it” Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes: Cobalt Starstrong and His Winning Smile”
—Keanu Reeves played the room in Backrooms
—I keep expecting to see Señor Cardgage
—The Blair Room Project
—Haunted house genre for a generation that can’t afford home ownership
—Alice in Furniture Land
—Through the Looking Wall Continue reading “Things my husband texted me while watching Backrooms:”
I’m illustrating my book, In a Dog’s World, chapter by chapter for posting to Deep Sky Anchor, and it’s weird how much the workflow has changed since I did this for Discovery of the Wanderlust in October.
Back then, it was easiest to work directly with the image generators.
Now, it’s easiest to have Fable read the book and write out a full set of matching prompts. Then when Gemini/GPT1.5 give me trouble, I complain to Fable, and it reworks the whole document of prompts. Continue reading “New Illustration Workflow”
I was not prepared for Ty to die… he’s in all the pictures advertising the show. I just assumed he’d stay a main character all the way up until I catch up with real time.
I know it’s different, but it feels like Alex Karev all over again.
I just saw a trailer for Slow Horses before the episode of Trying that I was about to watch… Continue reading “Heartland, Eternity, Dr. Grant, Etc.”
I’ve been thinking about Swift’s “The Prophecy” a lot. She found artistic success early and struggled to find a relationship she could feel safe and happy in where she could build a family, even though she spent all those years looking.
I found my spouse early and had two kids… Continue reading “The Prophecy”
For all the posts from AI-related people that I see bemoaning the lack of sci-fi writers who don’t hate AI, I sure don’t see much support from that same crowd for the few of us out here who actually do love AI.
And believe me, we get a lot of hate.
So, if you want to see sci-fi writers who like AI, you might want to actually actively support those of us who are willing to put ourselves out there. Continue reading “The Lack of Support for Pro-AI Sci-Fi Writers”
“Brigadoon, Kokomo, and Hona Lee” is about how imaginary places are sometimes more real than the real ones.
They’re not changed by time. They’re always there for you, always waiting for you to revisit, always as real as they ever were.
“IDIC” is a song about infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes: The Event Horizons Infinitely Remixed”
We’re ready to sell lots of books and toys! If you’re at BayCon42, come by and check it out!
“When the moon hits your eye
While you wait for pad thai
That’s a… BayCon!” Continue reading “While at BayCon42”