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Back from Readercon!
Readercon is a “conference on imaginative literature” that takes place in the Boston area each July. From Thursday evening (when everything is free) through Sunday afternoon (for a very reasonable fee if you don’t need a hotel), hundreds of readers, fans, editors, publishers, and writers converged on the Marriot hotel in Burlington, Mass. This was […]
Off to Readercon!
I will be at Readercon this weekend, Friday through Sunday. I’m not on any panels or giving any readings—this is my first time going to the whole thing and I’m new to this thing. Dipping my toe in as they say. I will be selling books in the Bookshop at the Broad Universe tables (40 […]
Resolution Arrives!
I’ve been quiet about my work in progress that is no longer in progress. Resolution, Book 3 of my Captain Randall sapphic space adventure series, is done—cooked, forked, sliced and diced, and will ready for your hands and eyes any day now. Happy Pride! I never set out to write a trilogy. I had no […]
My Take on AI
You don’t need yet another rant about AI (except, maybe take a look at Pope Leo’s), specifically generative AI, but I’m going to write one anyway. For my own protection and survival as a creative person. As a writer. Because the day will come when I might be accused of using AI in my writing […]
When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
If you’ve taken an Alaska cruise, chances are you visited the dramatic fjords that are home to many glaciers. I did this in 2009 (I even got a short story out of it). The other day on NPR, I heard about a tsunami in one of these fjords, but I missed the real context. The […]
More Sports!
The Olympics are over but not the drama. In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. women won ice hockey gold! Then the men won. Who did the president speak to as they celebrated? The men. He invited them to the State of the Union address, adding, per USA Today (and, well, everyone), “I must tell […]
Sports!
We’re midway through the Olympics and I’m enjoying them—while wondering how many more winter games can exist in this warming world. But that’s not what this blog is about. I’ve discovered women’s ice hockey. Well, I’ll be damned! That’s the game I used to love! But with women! I’m sure women have been playing ice […]
The Appeal of Mrs. Peel
I’m sure much has been written about Diana Rigg’s turn as Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s British TV show The Avengers. I’m rewatching it now and I have my own thoughts. I first watched this show when I was a kid. My dad and I loved it. The rest of the family didn’t care […]
Searching for Intelligent Science Fiction with Strong Female Leads
Yeah, I know, it’s been awhile. But no one noticed because since I forbade third-party sharing, including scraping my blog to train AI, it gets no notice. At least that’s my theory. For the record, this blog and all my writing are 100 percent by me, a human. So…what have I been up to? I’ve […]
It’s Banned Books Week. So?
My books have never been banned as far as I know, only because I’m too small a fish in the publishing pond. My books all have LGBTQIA+ themes, so they would be banned if they ever caught anyone’s attention. I should be so lucky? The topic of book bans itself is fraught. Google the term […]
Elaine Burnes 