As part of her May Month of Writers Blog Festival, Alethea Kontis interviewed me.

My story "They Do It with Robots" is now live on the Daily Science Fiction website.

I'll be at CONduit, the Salt Lake science fiction convention, this weekend.  Here's my schedule: Friday 5:00-5:25pm: Reading Saturday 12:00-1:00pm: Humorous Horror: You could die laughing Dean Koontz did it. Buffy did it. The Little Shop of Horrors did it. They managed to combine the tension of danger while tickling your funny bone. There are a lot of current writers... read more »

I flew to D.C. from L.A., where I attended the 27th Writers of the Future Awards. (More on that in a subsequent post.)  I spent a couple of days with some family in the area, then went to the Washington Hilton, where the Nebula Awards Weekend was being held. It was great to catch up with old friends, some of... read more »

I'm very honored to announce that my story won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. More details about this wonderful weekend to come later.

If you're in the DC area, I'd love to see you at the mass autograph session here at the Nebula Awards, from 5:30-7:00pm.  It's open to the public for free, at the Washington Hilton (1919 Connecticut Ave. NW).  Sneak preview copies of my collection will be available.

I apologize for being late with the latest chapter of Unforgettable. I was traveling yesterday and I forgot that I hadn't scheduled it to go out automagically. My next story in Daily Science Fiction is scheduled for tomorrow, so that means it will probably get emailed out late tonight. If you're not already signed up to get DSF by email,... read more »

The Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards ceremony will be broadcast live this evening via internet streaming at 6:30PM Pacific Time. I'm out here in L.A. for the awards, and I've met all the writers and quite a few of the illustrators, and they're a very talented bunch. Go to http://www.writersofthefuture.com/ shortly before the awards ceremony starts and you... read more »

In less than two weeks, I'll be in Washington, DC, for the Nebula Awards Weekend.  As part of that, I'll be participating in a mass autograph signing that is open to the public, so I invite any of my friends in the DC area to drop by and say hello.  My collection of stories doesn't officially come out until August,... read more »

In conjunction with the LDS Storymakers conference going on in Salt Lake City, Howard Tayler wrote an interesting blog post about Mormons writing science fiction and fantasy.  His basic point is what he calls "a meme in a monoculture": Brigham Young University is the spiritual heart of Utah County, and Utah County is a monoculture. If an idea springs up... read more »