Now would be a fine time to note that SFF writer’s workshops Clarion, Clarion West, and Viable Paradise are all accepting applications!Also, the Alpha Workshop for young writers fundraiser is under way, and I have a small donation to the cause listed here.

On  the way out to Viable Paradise, Sherwood Smith, my dear Mr. Lynch, and I did a brief tour of Lovecraftian Providence. We visited the Shunned House and the Haunter in the Dark church and Mr. Lovecraft’s grave. To the island, boy wonder! (Sadly, I got no photos of Jim Macdonald tying her braids into [...]

Brust railroads some writers

Viable Paradise lurches along goldenly. We’re currently gathered around listening to Dr. Doyle discourse on the nature, theory, and practice of style. I see knitting, tatting, and scribbling in process as people listen intently. She is a tremendously quotable speaker. “The nice thing about literary lineages is that they don’t dead-end.” I sometimes think I [...]

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