Once again these are stolen — er, I mean, these are my notes — from a panel I attended at RiverCon science fiction convention in 1997. The panelists were: Jack Williamson, Stephen Leigh, Diann Thornley, and Maureen McHugh, author of some of my favorite sf…
Did you ever read or write a character who was well put-together, but just laid there on the table and wouldn’t live? Like, “Mate, this bird wouldn’t “voom” if you put four million volts through it!” Well, you know what I always say — okay…
First, I’m happy to announce that FORCE OF HABIT, my sf/cop/farce novel, is FREE for Kindle for another four days, 12/23-27, 2012. Go get it! Here is (are?) the rest of my notes on Alice Friman’s Poetry presentation: Mechanics Rewriting–has two basic purposes: To take…
