âWhat if he wonât like it? You donât want to pressure him, you need to make sure you are supporting what HE likes, not what YOU like,â my husband said …
Which is to say that as of 3 AM Monday morning, my book Alien Visitors is finished. I still have to submit the manuscript (McFarland has to set something up …
This is a story about a person who never gave up on me, and I am a better person because of him.
It was the sixth grade⊠2000? I believe? Iâve gotten to that point in my life where Greg would tell me you stop caring or counting, the years just happen. My school handed out flyers for after school clubs and I was determined to find âthe one.â I had just started drawing, but my sixth grade brain told me that I was excelling, I was the best, and when I saw Cartooning Club, my little ego went: âbingo.â The classroom the club was held in was in the basement of the school, the woodshop room. Directly to my left, as I walked in the door, I heard: âWelcome.â There was Greg.
From about age 12 to 15, almost all of my pop culture itches were scratched at the Torrance Public Library. Where Greg Hatcher steeped himself in genre fiction, I was all about the nonfiction; the people, the history, the methods. We were both trying to escape, but while Greg was escaping into fictional worlds, I was trying to escape into a different real world, become a different person, and I knew that the tools to do that would be found almost entirely in the 700 section.
I became fully vaccinated roughly two weeks ago. It’s been surprisingly overwhelming. Good, but overwhelming. The first few days of freedom, I got my haircut (I no longer feel the …
Last November I read an alarming Twitter thread from Cory Doctorow on Disney refusing to pay Alan Dean Foster royalties. Foster was the author (uncredited) of the original Star Wars …
In a society that talks a lot about ending bigotry, bigotry is often ignored. This needs to change.
