Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

On one panel, YA authors Tina Connolly and Fonda Lee surprised me by both expressing their admiration for A Wrinkle in Time . This was par...

I was determined to see Carrie Vaughn. I had spoken to her at the 2011 Worldcon in Reno, Nevada. My novel manuscript Dust after Slaying f...

This weekend I attended Norwescon, the largest science fiction/fantasy convention in the Pacific Northwest. I’ll have a couple of things t...

Stephen Hawking recently passed away. I’ll repeat below my post from 2014 , then add a comment. __________________________ Stephen H...

First, Elon Musk came up with easy-to-use flamethrowers.   photo by Nike Scream  Okay, she doesn’t work for Elon Musk, but...

I don’t normally make it all the way though a YA novel. Partly it’s because of the lack of detail in the scene descriptions compared to a ...

Yesterday, I submitted a mashed-up fairy tale short story that I first wrote in 2006 to an online magazine. Today, I submitted a science...

On my way to church and back, I saw four cars pulled over by the police. They were obviously out in force, looking for anyone who started t...

Here’s my latest book purge: three hardcovers and nine paperbacks. These just didn’t turn out to be as interesting as I thought they would....