Wow. Readercon was awesome! Technically it was Readercon 33, but my first. I haven’t really started processing it, still coming down from the high. For this shy introvert, that’s an astonishing statement. That a crowded conference full of strangers (it wasn’t any easier with coworkers) could energize me. I didn’t talk to very many people. […]
I’m going to my first Readercon tomorrow (though at the rate I’m going in getting this posted, maybe today). Just for the day, unfortunately, and only if there aren’t monsoon rains for the drive there—it’ll take a couple of hours. Readercon, for those not in the know, is a venerable science fiction conference held in […]
I hope this isn’t the last time I can say that. There are a lot of horrible things going on around the world, and I care about all of them deeply even if I don’t write about them. Sudan is on the brink of famine, China and Taiwan are on the brink of war, the […]
I don’t consider myself a gardener. I say I’m the laborer to my wife’s gardening. I grew up with a shaded yard, so my mother’s feeble attempts didn’t yield much. She had a rock garden though, but I don’t remember much about it. My grandmother was quite the gardener. She had a terraced back yard, […]
I’ve started a new document on my computer called Rants. You’ll read the fruits of that here. I know the world is full of horrible bad news everywhere you look, so this isn’t something I want to dwell on. I write because I need to process my feelings about the world and my little life […]
Just a quick update that Tenacity is now available for purchase at these outlets: Amazon Apple store Barnes & Noble Bedazzled Ink Kobo Vivlio Others will be updated as they go live. If you are in Massachusetts, look for it in your library’s network. Or request it. Bookstores, too, can carry it. Just ask! More […]
Tenacity launches on June 4. You can preorder now on Amazon or, you know, wait and I’ll have links to other retailers like Bookshop.org, where, to be honest, I buy my print books that I can’t get locally. Tenacity is a sequel to Endurance. I’d like to think it stands alone, but just in case, […]
Naming my last book Endurance was easy. I had been inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic adventure (misadventure) aboard his own Endurance. I even made the story time match the length of time he and his crew were stranded. I decided, however, not to destroy the ship. Honestly, his real story was so improbable that I […]
I’ve been sitting on some news. I haven’t posted in a long time because I’ve been busy. You see, last fall I finished the sequel to Endurance. I sent it off to my publisher—you might have heard their squeals of joy. I signed the contract before they’d finished reading it, which made me very nervous. […]
Elaine Burnes 