2013 Hugo Awards: Best Novella Nominees
The novella is my favorite length of fiction. It's long enough to get in a good story with multi-layered characters and a complicated world, but it's short enough that you have to work hard to [...]
2013 Hugo Awards reading – novelettes
A novelette lives in that nebulous area known as "longer than a short story and shorter than a novella". Probably somewhere between 7500 and 20,000 words, which is quite a span. I like the novelette [...]
2013 Hugo-nominated short stories
Since I'm going to WorldCon this year, that makes me eligible to vote for the Hugos. I'm doing my best to take this as a responsibility, especially since it drives me crazy that influential awards [...]
CONvergence 2013 post-con summary
CONvergence was a new sort of experience for me this year. I stayed with a group of people I hadn't met before, and while it was for the most part fine, I'm getting a room [...]
4th Street Fantasy, 2013
With the release of my debut novel looming on the horizon, I'm hitting every local (and some not-so-local) convention I can. It's exhausting, but I'm learning a lot and meeting hordes of like-minded people. I [...]