Others have written reports about the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki. Yes, it was swell–and better attended than they expected, to the extent that you often could not… Read more Finland and Estonia in Bits and Pieces →
Do you need to read accented speech with an accent? Let’s think about it. Dick Van Dyke is appearing in the new Mary Poppins film–not, blessedly, as Bert the Sweep,… Read more ‘Ow’s that, Guv’nor?: The Art of Reading to an Audience →
This weekend past I was a reader at SF in SF, the San Francisco SF reading series. I like reading to an audience–I’m a lapsed Theatre major, and while I’m not a… Read more Just Do It: The Art of Reading to an Audience →
I am just back from Renovation, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention. It was a perfectly excellent six days; I saw people I don’t see often enough; met people I hadn’t known before; got to do improv (at 11pm, when by rights my brain should not have been working–but panic and good improv-mates pulled me through). I was on two panels, had a kaffeesklatch, and did a reading from The Sleeping Partner. Also ate a lot of good food, talked about long and deep about writing, publishing, and the state… Read more We are the World(con) →
I did not post on Monday because I was in Massachusetts, at Readercon, which was just splendid. What is a Readercon, some might ask? It’s an annual convention of readers… Read more Conventional Wisdom →