Here’s my schedule for Balticon 45 starting Friday, May 26 to May 30 in Marriott’s Hunt Valley Inn, Baltimore, MD. Fri. 6:00 PM: Salon B, Luddites of Fandom Fri. 9:00 PM: Belmont, Fantasy Motifs in SF Literature Sat. 1:00 PM: Belmont: Favorite Shared Worlds. Sat. 4:00 PM: Salon C: How Plausible is Today’s Hard SF? […]
SFWA, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American, announced the winners of the this year’s Nebula Awards at their annual Nebula Awards Weekend held in Washington, DC. You can read the full list of nominees and winners on the SFWA website. Best Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra) Best Novella: “The Lady Who Plucked Red […]
This weekend I’ll be at the Nebula Awards Weekend. I’m doing a workshop with Paul Haggerty on Improving Your Website. I’ll also be volunteering here and there during the convention — starting with bag stuffing on Thursday. I’m starting to get anxious about the workshop. We’ve been working on putting the material together for weeks. […]
Today we went to Maryland Sheep and Wool. We had a great time considering we walked constantly from arrival to leaving — about 7.5 hours. Driving time 1.5 hours each way. We’re home now. My knee feels like it is the size of a basketball and my back is reporting that it’s filing for a […]
Gumshoe May 2011 now Online at www.gumshoereview.com Senior Editor: Gayle Surrette Editor Emeritus: Ernest Lilley Editorial License: Just the Facts – May 2011 by Gayle Surrette Features: Interview: Brian Freeman by Gayle Surrette & Joseph B. Hoyos / The Bone House by Brian Freeman Interview: Parnell Hall by Gayle Surrette & Joseph B. Hoyos / […]
When I was offered the opportunity to have Sharon Lathan write a guest blog – I did happy dance about the office. Then I began to think of what topic to ask her to write about. I tried to come up with something erudite and not something she’d answered a million times already. But, you […]
The Trouble with Mr. Darcy by Sharon Lathan. Sourcebooks Landmark. ISBN: 978-1-4022-3754-6. 368 pages. (Trade Paperback: $14.99 / Amazon: $9.47 / Kindle $9.00) Book Description: Just as Darcy and Elizabeth are facing the most intense challenges of their marriage George Wickham returns to Hertfordshire bent on creating trouble. But Wickham is only a pawn for […]
What Would Mr. Darcy Do? by Abigail Reynolds. Sourcebooks Landmark. ISBN: 978-1-4022-4093-5. 227 pages. Previously published as From Lambton to Longbourn. ($12.99 / Amazon: $9.95 / Kindle: $8.59). Abigail Reynolds, in What Would Mr. Darcy Do?, tells a Pride and Prejudice variation. The book starts just as Mr. Darcy heads to Lambton to see Elizabeth […]
