An open letter from Macmillan to its authors. Worth reading. Now, you readers need to get a little hot and bothered about this, too.

Okay, so this got my dander up.  The idea that Amazon would pull a publisher’s books on the basis of a pricing dispute should sound a bunch of alarms.  (The fact that a lot of my friends’ books are no longer available–temporarily or otherwise–ticks me off, too.) But here’s what bothered me just about as [...]

Yet another attempt to push through drilling around the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.  This is deeply disturbing, if only because it signals more weakening of this administration which has done very little to champion the environment.   Considering this and the recent Supreme Court decision to allow for big corporate money to influence our political system (again), [...]

So I had a really interesting evening earlier in the week.  A teacher-friend invited me to speak to her class on teaching fiction to school kids (all ages), and they wanted someone to talk about sf and fantasy.  Now I’ve done a lot of public speaking–mostly academic stuff–so that wasn’t a problem.  But, moi?  Try [...]

A friend of mine recently complained about the show Lost: “It just seems like they don’t know what they’re doing.  Nothing relates.” Well, this might be true, but I’d suggest that for a television show with a shooting schedule, stars to hire and renewals to worry about . . . the writers probably DO have [...]