a word from the management.
Hi. This is an admin post, which theoretically is for the new people. With any luck, it will stay at the top of the blog this time.
Through your mastery of the backroads of the internet, you've found my weblog. I'm Elizabeth Bear; I write science fiction and fantasy, and I talk about that here. I also talk about my life, my hobbies, my elderly and presuming cat, and various other things, including TV shows and books I like, the ongoing saga of my recent car troubles, things I did this weekend, and so on.
This is a public blog, and I very, very rarely post anything friends-locked. You don't have to ask my permission to add me as a friend, to read or to comment. I often don't add people back, but that's because I'm swamped, not because I don't think you're interesting.
The only thing I ask is that you be polite, to me and to other commenters, and exercise the sort of common courtesy you would in someone else's living room. If you don't know what common courtesy is, ask your mother. If I think somebody is being rude, I generally explain it to them before I take drastic action, so don't fret too much.
Welcome in. There's drinks in the fridge, and if you get here early, you might score a spot in the hammock or on the futon. Feel free to introduce yourself, if you haven't before.
Watch out for the man-eating plants.
optimisticThrough your mastery of the backroads of the internet, you've found my weblog. I'm Elizabeth Bear; I write science fiction and fantasy, and I talk about that here. I also talk about my life, my hobbies, my elderly and presuming cat, and various other things, including TV shows and books I like, the ongoing saga of my recent car troubles, things I did this weekend, and so on.
This is a public blog, and I very, very rarely post anything friends-locked. You don't have to ask my permission to add me as a friend, to read or to comment. I often don't add people back, but that's because I'm swamped, not because I don't think you're interesting.
The only thing I ask is that you be polite, to me and to other commenters, and exercise the sort of common courtesy you would in someone else's living room. If you don't know what common courtesy is, ask your mother. If I think somebody is being rude, I generally explain it to them before I take drastic action, so don't fret too much.
Welcome in. There's drinks in the fridge, and if you get here early, you might score a spot in the hammock or on the futon. Feel free to introduce yourself, if you haven't before.
Watch out for the man-eating plants.
/hands out cookies/
/curls up in papasan/
You invited introductions and far be it from me to go against years of scientific research informing us that people love to talk about themselves. Nobel prize worthy findings indeed.
I've come because my occasional writing partner
I think we've crossed paths a couple of times when you read my Criminal Minds fic. It's not my primary fandom so I don't play in that sandbox often, however I do have a great affection for Morgan/Garcia - fueled by this most recent story arc of course.
A brief history of
timeEmma...I have previously been paid to write non-fiction in my field, decided in 2005 to try my hand at creative writing as a way of breaking a writer's block, discovered an insatiable muse in the process and have written approximately 5-600 short stories since then. (For an amateur I am thought of as freakishly prolific. I have no idea how I compare to professionals.) I use my powers for good now /crosses heart/ and work with other authors to spur their creativity and defeat writer's blocks. I am totally and completely untrained, much to my embarrassment, but I've decided to graduate myself from the learn by doing school and enroll in the teachings of established writers in an attempt to learn the actual craft portion of this craft.
My LJ is fic only so I don't anticipate you will friend me back. (A personal LJ exists yet is woefully empty.) I did want to send my greetings and offer my gratitude for this blog since it has been meaningful and helpful to someone I care about.
I brought my comfy chair. I'm ready to settle in for a good read.
Thanks...
I'm Chris, and I don't know what else to say except that I admire you. Oh, and my recent NaNo finish *drum roll please* ;) was a dark fantasy, the first time I'd ever written a fantasy. It was fun, and strange, and exhilirating, addicting . . . yep, all of those at the same time.
I'm just going to sway on the hammock for a bit and soak up the good vibes. If I have a question later on, is that okay?
(Anonymous)
If so when(!) and will it be published in Australia (...in particular Galaxy bookstore Sydney...?)
I cant wait to read more of Sebastien de Ulloa and Jack and this fascinating creature Abigail who I havent met yet!
Finally found your blog through some circuitous route that escapes me just now. My husband and I were at Penguicon this year, when you and
In addition, I too, have been owned by a Queen of the Universe (passed now, alas, although with cats, one never knows). She was a prize-winning (with her previous owner) Lavender-tipped Siamese, and like many a beauty queen, she took pains to see that you never forgot that.
Anyhoo, I have taken the liberty of passing along your 'Cat & Monkey' tag to several of my friends, who were most amused. Any chance of some sort of formal, book-like tale of these Journeys someday? It would be quite the hoot.
Happy Hollydays and Musings to you!
-Katrina
(Anonymous)
Instapundit linked this page and I followed from there.
I write science fiction and always like to hang around writers to see if I can glean some insight into process or attitude or maybe even something I don't know to look for to help me go from writing science fiction to publishing some day. Hopefully not too far off.
If nothing else it's always encouraging to be able to say, "Wow, she's having the same problem I do."
It all seems less hopeless and less lonely that way. I hope you don't mind me hanging around. I promise to make extra efforts at company manners.
J.Pascal
A general introduction: Hi, I'm hobbitbabe. LJ is my main on-line hangout, although I also dabble in Facebook and Flickr and last.fm. I came to the internet about 15 years ago with USENET, mainly alt.polyamory. I live in Canada and my current or recent passions include writing, reading, listening to alternative rock music and playing guitar, quilting, playing ice hockey, and watching good television on DVD.
just saying hello
Hail and Well Met (I hope)
I seem to be 'collecting' writers lately, which is wonderful from my perspective. I am, as I head into my sixth decade, attempting to write a story. I have no illusions about my chances or talent, but it is something that seems to entertain my friends. Reading the journals of writers is also teaching me about the craft.
I probably will not comment much, but I will enjoy reading your words - especially about the cats.
I hope to avoid all man-eating plants. Do they also like women, or am I safe?
As to me, I'm a Paramedic based just outside of Edinburgh, Scotland. I used to be in the Army but my days as a cold warrior are long behind me. I enjoy a nice mix of fiction but I always return to SF/Fantasy.
I'm Sophy, Z.S.Adani. I've found your blog on your website after I read "Blood and Iron" and "Whiskey and Water". Am looking forward to the other books in the series, but especially to the Stephen Bathory and Matthias Corvinus volume. I'm currently reading "Undertow", and enjoying it.
Delurking for presentation
lurking aroundreading your blog since... um, almost forever... somewhere slightly before when the Jenny books were published, I think. Didn't have a LJ until recently, though, so I never made it as far as to comment. I can't remember how I found my way here, but you probably wrote something clever somewhere else and I followed the trail here.I'm a PhD student (computational neuroscience), science blogger, and sometime freelance journalist. Possibly also a future writer, but with slow enough progress that I do not merit the title yet. I am not English or American, but use the language(s) for reading, writing and other work far more often than my native Swedish.
I read almost only SF, fantasy and related, at a current pace of some measly 60 books per year, which means I barely manage to stay on top of what's happening in the genre. I passed the book-time-money dividing line some time ago: I suddenly have more money to buy books than time to read them, which is a sad thing indeed.
Newbie
*waves*
The cover for All the Windwracked Stars is gorgeous, and I will be pre-ordering the book. From your excerpt on your fiction blog, it looks awesome and intriguing.
I'm a fellow writer, by the way, but unpublished right now. Hoping to change that. :)
Cheers,
E.
Politeness and etc
I friended you for your many interesting posts of climbing, and after reading all those actually looked at your profile and realised that hey, you wrote the Jenny Casey series! Which is awesome! I didn't know you had an LJ! More awesome!
So, um. yeah. I would've just lurked, but that seems to always bring connotations of spiders and mildewed spaces; therefore, here is my polite declaration that I am, in fact, not trying to be creepy. Which might have failed on the polite aspect and I believe is now verging on the babbling aspect. Regardless - nice to meet you! :D