Nothing puts me in a worse mood than a crash. Take a power failure – in our house, it’s always accompanied by a loud “ping” from the smoke detector system going down.  Usually followed by me cussing as I’ve lost whatever I was doing on the computer. But the truth is, it isn’t a catastrophe.  [...]

Gee, Karen’s post about packing got me thinking about travel. It’s a complete illusion, but I always feel like summer and autumn are conference season.  Maybe it’s because my local science fiction convention is always in August.  So is Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention.  RWA National is in July (this year will be my [...]

And the winners are: Thanks to everyone who entered!  We had some great entries.

In light of Curtiss Ann’s recent post about Twitter, I thought folks here might be interested in this fun little contest: BookViewCafe.com is holding its very first Twitter-Fic contest!  The task:  To write a complete story incorporating the contest theme in one tweet (126 characters or fewer).  The prize:  An autographed copy of Pati Nagle’s [...]