I’m off tonight to the Orlando Airport Marriott in sunny Orlando, FL (I know, we all have our burdens to bear) for the 30th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts–I’ll be reading at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow (Friday) on a panel with the esteemed Dennis Danvers and John Kessel, so I’m really looking forward […]

This is a bit of an unusual post in that I don’t have an end for it yet. I’m leaving that up to you. Let me explain. My book is beginning to appear in a number of places for pre-order (details of which I’ll have on this site fairly soon, by the way), and so […]

A rather major discussion has been raging on a very small area of the Internet lately (I won’t get into the details, as they’re not important for the subject of this post), involving people from a variety of perspectives and positions, and although I doubt this is a shocking revelation, it didn’t take long for […]

Just a short post today to mention that I received my ARCs of

I was wandering past David Anthony Durham’s blog the other day and came across an article he had linked to by Richard K. Morgan. Now Morgan’s best known for his gritty sci-fi work, and so I admit I was a bit surprised to see him commenting on fantasy…until I read the article and realized he […]

I’m happy to report that Brandeis has backed off of its scheme to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its art, which I talked about here recently. From President Jehuda Reinharz to the Brandeis community: Dear Members of the Brandeis community: The past ten days have been extremely difficult for all of us. I […]

Warning: rant ahead. In the first time of the history of this site (okay, so it’s not European length history, but still, it’s the first time) I’ve cross-posted this entry to both sections of my blog, because I think it applies to both academic and non-academic audiences. If you’re not a Brandeis University alum or […]

Only time for a quick post today, and it’s designed to get fellow author Jim Hines in trouble: Lindsay Lohan is in talks to play a role in a movie adaptation of Jim’s newest book The Stepsister Scheme. Please note the way in which I have asserted this to be fact, despite Jim’s (clearly specious–like […]

I ran into an interesting post over at David Anthony Durham’s blog on science fiction…or more specifically, a post on why David’s not going to be writing science fiction any time soon. Of course the point David’s trying to make–using some incomprehensible prose from an article in New Scientist–is a good one: a lot of […]

I’ve noticed a lot of talk recently on the subject of public vs. private personas, specifically as they relate to people in the publishing business, and over at Dear Author (a place which I tend not to frequent, as they’re exclusively a romance site, which isn’t really my bag) they’ve got a doozy of an […]