Nancy's Blog

Recently I was talking to Walter Jon Williams and Ted Chiang about writing, a conversation which came about because Walter taught a one-day ...

I swear, sometimes I don't know why I even write science fiction. The real world so often comes up with items far weirder than anything...

The Nebula ballot was officially announced this morning, and I'm pleased to be on it for my novella about dwarfism, genetic engineering,...

Writers joke about finding "the secret" to publishing, or "the secret handshake" among the fellowship of professional wr...

On Sunday Connie Willis spoke about and signed her new novel, BLACKOUT, at the University Bookstore in Seattle. In attendance was a large a...

My reading goes in spurts: a geyser of fiction followed by science non-fiction followed by something else. Lately I have been reading memoi...

A round-up of miscellany for the interested (the rest of you will just have to suffer through): Amazon.com has caved on the McMillan boycott...