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Back from a flying trip, in sundry senses of the word. Some fun stories to tell. Some not to.

Tired now.

When I left it was 90°. Or more. Naturally I left the swamp cooler running so as not to bake the cats. It gets cooler at night usually, of course, but I figured it [...]

Inside Straight launch achieves orbit

Thanks to everybody who turned out for the signing. I told you a good time would be had by all. And what do you know …?

I just had a big old boatload of fun Saturday at Page One. And as I said, I’m not even in the book. Although as [...]

Who Will Be the Next American Hero?

I can’t tell … and if you want some clues, go here.

Click there now and check it out. Seriously. I’ll still be here when you get back.

Y’all know, probably (and if you don’t, hang around a spell and it’ll all become abundantly clear) that I’m more than somewhat slightly skeptical and cynical about [...]

In which I’m invited to play celebrity at a hockey game. With George Noory. Seriously.

This hit me literally out of nowhere: the other day a message appeared in my e-box headed, “SCI FI NIGHT AT NM SCORPIONS HOCKEY,” from one Melissa Gomez, who proved to be the Director of Special Events for the New Mexico Scorpions hockey team (I’m presuming I’m not violating any confidence by posting this, [...]

Inside Straight Mega-Signing!

Since I was rendered mentally fuzzy (okay, more so than usual) by the cruds the last couple weeks, I plumb neglected to announce this: Tor Books is launching the all-new Wild Cards volume Inside Straight with a gala mega-signing Saturday, February 2, 2008 at Page One Bookstore, Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE in Albuquerque, [...]

Archon update

We just finished doing tech rehearsals for the Masquerade this afternoon. One extremely … healthy-looking … young woman is portraying Jessica Rabbit in her entry. Suffice it to say, she can.

At the meeting before rehearsals even began her mother came up to me and said “Jessica” wanted to rub up against me – [...]

You missed the reading

Don’t try to tell me you didn’t. I saw who was there.

Granted, it was in a somewhat obscure location (I had to ask directions; so did the person who came in to read after me.)

But it may be you didn’t miss much. I was off a bit. Flat. The audience (all six [...]

Greetings from HI!

That’s, Holiday Inn, in official Archon abbreviation. Not Hawaii. I’d say, “sadly,” but I’m pretty thrilled to be here.

I’ve been offline for a couple days. Now back thanks to the hotel’s wireless net. At least until the Nerd Wave crashes it sometime Friday evening, along with the elevators.

Did an appearance tonight with Guest [...]

Reading, with dinosaurs

Yes, dinosaurs. As in, I make toy dinosaurs fight.

How can you possibly resist?

If you should happen to find yourself at NASFiC/Archon on Thursday afternoon, August 2, at 4:00 PM, clearly you can’t.

I’ll be reading from my finally-nearing-completion-dammit high fantasy epic novel The Dinosaur Lords. The excerpts I read at the Albuquerque Science [...]

Meet Me in St. Louie, Louie

Ooh. Ooh. We gotta. Go. Now.

Or in an alarmingly short period of time.

Yes, I’ll soon be on public display at Archon 31, aka NASFiC, aka TuckerCon. It runs from August 2-5 at the Collinsville, IL Gateway Center. Big fun. If you can stand the heat. And the humidity.

I don’t have much [...]