Sheila's LiveJournal

I have another blog up at the Nebula site:

http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/guest_blogs/clowns_dead_dogs_and_the_universe/

"Stranger Than Imagination Can," a lingster story, which first appeared in my collection THE GUILD OF XENOLINGUISTS, made it to the short list for the Nebulas. If you'd like to read a copy, email me and I'll be glad to send one: sf.lingster@gmail.com

I have another blog up that I wrote for the Nebula blog site. But not for long, so catch it while it's hot! (This makes number four. I didn't realize I had much to say until I started.)

http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/guest_blogs/the_persistence_of_the_numinous/

A new entry I wrote for the SFWA Nebula site has been posted. I did some thinking about the boundaries of genre, and how some things published outside our genre are truly science fictional:

http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/guest_blogs/i_know_it_when_i_read_it/

An extended version of a riff I did here on the extraordinary outdoor art exhibit -- The Blob -- at Long Beach Museum of Art (plus pix and links!) appears here:

www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/guest_blogs/whats_that_supposed_to_be/

I made the decision not to go to Denver.

Although I managed quite well in Oregon, there would be considerably more walking about at Worldcon, and my leg gets very tired at the end of the day dragging this heavy boot around. It's starting to rub a welt at the top of my calf just under the knee that's quite sore too. Two more weeks minimum, four maximum; I don't want to jeopardize it.

Plus we've started some heavy-duty repair work at the condo building – termite-infested wood being removed all over (including from my balcony), then tenting, then painting. Not a good time to be away. Apparently, I just wasn't meant to go to Denver this year.

The blog entry, “Of Myth and Memory,” should be up now on the new SFWA Nebula Awards site. It's about double the length I first posted here.
(www.nebulaawards.com. ) The site looks spiffy – all you ever wanted to know about the Nebulas but were afraid to ask.

I seem to be writing more non-fiction than fiction lately, and it's appearing online.

Broadsheet, the online newsletter of Broad Universe, has just posted a short article I wrote for them on avoiding cliches when writing science fiction:

http://broaduniverse.org/broadsheet/0807sf.html

And coming up in the near future, an expanded version of my blog entry "Of Myth and Memory" is going to appear as a guest  blog in the new SFWA Nebula site. I'll list the particulars when I know them. I guess you could say I have finally entered the 21st century?