Nancy's Blog

This morning, before I leave tomorrow to return to Leipzig, I paid my quarterly estimated taxes to the feds and to New York State (sound of ...

Gardner Dozois has selected my story "The Erdmann Nexus" for his 2008 Best of the Year . I am, naturally, pleased about this. But,...

Between teaching in Germany and then abruptly flying home for a family emergency, it has been several months since I wrote any fiction. I...

One of the first things a professional writer learns is to never, never answer negative reviews. It only gets you into energy-sapping flame...

The best piece of writing advice I ever got came from Gene Wolfe, fairly early in my career. He said, "Have a short story feature two ...

I am reading my way through FAST FORWARD 2, Lou Anders's anthology that is creating a lot of on-line buzz. Two of the major stories are ...

Although on-line reviews of SF are of course commonplace (along with on-line rants, blogs, predictions, fights, libel, and actual stories), ...