One of our highlights every year is to attend the Writers of the Future workshop and awards, the genre's most spectacular awards ceremony.  I have been a judge in the contest since 1996 and Rebecca became a judge in 2007. Last year, I gave a speech describing the first 25 years of the contest, which has just been posted on YouTube. It's less than four minutes long. http://youtu.be/K4-F32phjXw For the first part of the week, the 12 new writer winners attend a thorough and intensive workshop taught by Tim Powers and KD Wentworth, with numerous guest speakers.  The workshop took place...
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In memory of Douglas Adams, the late author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, May 25 has been designated Towel Day. http://www.towelday.org/ I thought it appropriate to pose for a pic in the gym with my very own "Don't Panic" towel.
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With eReaders becoming so ubiquitous in all types and sizes, from smartphones to Kindles/Nooks/Kobos, to iPads and other tablets, many authors (including myself) are experiencing a Renaissance of their backlist. Stories that were published in magazines or anthologies, then quickly vanished from the bookstores...novels that have been unavailable to the public except in used-book stores or pirate sites—now they have a second life as eBooks. Rebecca and I have been working hard to clean up, reformat, and upload some of the very best of my out-of-print novels and stories. You can see all of the titles on the Wordfire homepage....
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Rebecca and I just returned from five days in Hollywood at the workshop and awards ceremony for the annual Writers of the Future event.  The 12 winning writers from the past four quarters, as well as a published finalist and a 2010 winner who had not been able to attend last year, spent several intensive days with Tim Powers and K.D. Wentworth at the core workshop, learning how to research, develop, and write a story. On Thursday night, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Eric Flint, and I joined the new writers for an impromptu Q&A session, and then on Friday Rebecca and...
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