So it’s been almost two weeks since I last posted anything, including any of the half-dozen or so short stories I’ve listened to that I feel are worth sharing. What’s going on? We did just have a new baby less than two months ago, though that’s not been as disruptive to everything as I expected.… Continue reading Where have I been?
Tag: family
Prepping for a new novel project
I am so far behind on so many things right now. My in-laws went to Idaho for the week, so all of the childcare has fallen on us while they’re gone, and we’ve just been swamped. I know that there are amazing parents out there who can watch five kids at a time, by themselves,… Continue reading Prepping for a new novel project
We have a new baby!
So the reason I haven’t posted anything here in a little over a week is because we had a new baby! This one is our second, and he’s our first baby boy. Unlike the last time, when Mrs. Vasicek went into labor around 7:30 PM and the baby was born in the early hours of… Continue reading We have a new baby!
Children of the Starry Sea cover reveal!
Behold! This is the ebook cover for Children of the Starry Sea, coming out sometime this summer! If it looks familiar, that’s because I kept the art from my earlier experiments with Stable Diffusion—the feedback was so positive, including from my writing group, that I decided to make only a few minor tweaks, such as… Continue reading Children of the Starry Sea cover reveal!
I suppose I should post something here
So it’s been more than a week since my last post. Don’t worry, I’m still around: it’s just that this blog is always the first ball to drop when I need to get things going. The post-holiday season was actually harder on us in a lot of ways than the holiday season itself, with insomnia,… Continue reading I suppose I should post something here
Quick Update Post
It’s been a while since I posted to this blog. I had planned to keep a regular twice-a-week posting schedule, then went a little more than that for about a month before falling out of the routine. We just got back home from a family road trip, where we drove out to Omaha and back… Continue reading Quick Update Post
Why books written by mothers are better than books written by childless women
I never know which posts of mine China Mike Glyer is going to pick up for his pixel scroll, or whatever he calls the daily bucket of chum that he feeds the folks over at File 770 (the ones who aren’t Chinese bots, anyway). I’ve written at much greater length about my 2022 reading resolution… Continue reading Why books written by mothers are better than books written by childless women
Goodbye, Grandma
Sorry for the radio silence these past few weeks. My grandmother passed away a couple of weeks ago, and we’ve been down in Texas, dealing with family stuff and the funeral. I wrote the following author’s note for my newsletter, and it seemed like something worth sharing on the blog, so I’m posting it here… Continue reading Goodbye, Grandma
P is for Parenthood
I’m currently in the process of writing the second edition of my newsletter exclusive, Science Fiction from A to Z, adding a bunch of new chapters and rewriting all of the old ones. For a blog post this week, I thought I’d share one of the new chapters. Let me know what you think! I… Continue reading P is for Parenthood
Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Twenty
Words written: 1,315 Total stories written: 3 Total words written: 14,538 Total words remaining: 15,462 Total words behind: 4,822 So I said I was going to write that politically incorrect story, but instead I had a really cute idea for a flash fiction piece last night, and spat it out. Had to do with time… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Twenty