Nancy's Blog

A few days ago Gordon Van Gelder alerted me that an on-line pirate was giving away works of mine (and of William Gibson, Ursula LeGuin, Joe ...

I like Tim Burton. His CORPSE BRIDE was funny and inventive. But perhaps that was because he was working with original material, because h...

I tell my writing students that they should not wait for "inspiration" to write -- after all, if you wanted to be a professional p...

Even though no one is buying my house, I am in the process of packing up a lot of things to ship to Seattle. This has involved going throug...

Yesterday I was reading a 1940's detective novel and I was struck by how usefully -- as well as how often -- the writer used cigarettes ...

Publishing is changing fast, as we all know, and last week I encountered yet another example. This time it's not the electronic press b...

The most interesting development at the moment in genetic research is epigenetics. This is the study of those proteins that determine which...