Category: Travel
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Diversity and DragonCon
In recent years the cozy cameraderie of the science fiction world has been disrupted by controversies over diversity and tolerance. We've been told that SF is too white, too male, and too straight, and that we need to Do Something to change that. I'm not going to grapple with the question of whether the demographics…
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Here Be Dragons: Dragon-Con 2014
My talented wife Diane Kelly was invited to participate in this year's Dragon-Con in Atlanta as a science panelist. I tagged along, for several reasons. My first priority was to work in a little book promotion for A Darkling Sea and the upcoming Corsair. To that end I volunteered to help man the SFWA table…
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Armadillocon 2014 A.D.!
The Armadillocon 36 committee very kindly invited me to be a participant in this year's convention, so I accepted. My talented wife and I decided to make a weekend mini-vacation of it, and flew to Austin on Friday. The City Austin surprised me. Last time I was there was in the early 1990s, when Austin…
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Armadillocon, Featuring ME!!
This coming weekend I will be a guest at Armadillocon 36, in charming Austin, Texas. If you happen to be deep in the heart of Texas this weekend, come by. Here's what I'll be doing. Friday, July 25 4-5 p.m.: Cool Locations Which Haven't Been Used — A panel discussion; the title pretty much says it…
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My Northwest Passage
Inhabitants of the upper-left part of the United States (the place where the return address goes) can see me in person, hear me read from A Darkling Sea, and get some books signed next week. There are two stops on this mini-tour: Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, in Beaverton, Oregon, on May 13 at 7…
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An Event And An Interview
On Sunday, March 30, I'll join Brian Staveley and Ramona Wheeler for another joint Book Event at Flights of Fantasy Books and Games in Albany, New York. It all happens at 2 p.m. and everyone is welcome. If you haven't read enough interviews with me about A Darkling Sea, be sure to check out Andrew…
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Lunacon Report
This past weekend my celebrated wife Diane and I drove through irritating Connecticut traffic to Rye Brook, New York for this year's Lunacon, the venerable New York science fiction convention. We had lovely weather, and took advantage of the fact that one of our kids is two weeks away from legal adulthood to have a…
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LunaCon 2014, Featuring ME!
If you're going to be near Westchester County, New York this weekend, please consider stopping by the Hilton Westchester hotel in Rye Brook for Lunacon, New York's venerable science fiction convention. I'll be there, and here's my schedule: Friday, March 14, 5pm: Alternate Technologies in Historical Fiction — I'll be moderating a panel as we discuss…
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Promotional Round-Up
A little housekeeping here. I'll be a guest at Lunacon in Rye, New York this coming weekend (March 14-16). If you're in the area, come and hear me talk about games, time travel, and Gravity, among other topics. You can also hear some expert science discussion by Dr. Diane A. Kelly. March 30 I'll join Brian…
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How To Authorify, Part 3
February 2014 was a revelation to me. Up until A Darkling Sea came out, I still had the quaint belief that the author's job was to write stuff and the publishers took care of selling it. I forgot that one of the most effective selling tools in the publisher's kit is the author. During February…
The Cambias Digression 