Category: Blog

—Keanu Reeves played the room in Backrooms
—I keep expecting to see Señor Cardgage
—The Blair Room Project
—Haunted house genre for a generation that can’t afford home ownership
—Alice in Furniture Land
—Through the Looking Wall Continue reading “Things my husband texted me while watching Backrooms:”

I’m illustrating my book, In a Dog’s World, chapter by chapter for posting to Deep Sky Anchor, and it’s weird how much the workflow has changed since I did this for Discovery of the Wanderlust in October.

Back then, it was easiest to work directly with the image generators.

Now, it’s easiest to have Fable read the book and write out a full set of matching prompts. Then when Gemini/GPT1.5 give me trouble, I complain to Fable, and it reworks the whole document of prompts. Continue reading “New Illustration Workflow”

I was not prepared for Ty to die… he’s in all the pictures advertising the show. I just assumed he’d stay a main character all the way up until I catch up with real time.

I know it’s different, but it feels like Alex Karev all over again.

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I just saw a trailer for Slow Horses before the episode of Trying that I was about to watch… Continue reading “Heartland, Eternity, Dr. Grant, Etc.”

I’ve been thinking about Swift’s “The Prophecy” a lot. She found artistic success early and struggled to find a relationship she could feel safe and happy in where she could build a family, even though she spent all those years looking.

I found my spouse early and had two kids… Continue reading “The Prophecy”

For all the posts from AI-related people that I see bemoaning the lack of sci-fi writers who don’t hate AI, I sure don’t see much support from that same crowd for the few of us out here who actually do love AI.

And believe me, we get a lot of hate.

So, if you want to see sci-fi writers who like AI, you might want to actually actively support those of us who are willing to put ourselves out there. Continue reading “The Lack of Support for Pro-AI Sci-Fi Writers”

“Brigadoon, Kokomo, and Hona Lee” is about how imaginary places are sometimes more real than the real ones.

They’re not changed by time. They’re always there for you, always waiting for you to revisit, always as real as they ever were.

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“IDIC” is a song about infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes: The Event Horizons Infinitely Remixed”

We’re ready to sell lots of books and toys! If you’re at BayCon42, come by and check it out!

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“When the moon hits your eye
While you wait for pad thai
That’s a… BayCon!” Continue reading “While at BayCon42”

What’s this then? Did Acting-Ensign Leslie Keller get into a cloning machine? Mischievous puppy!

Well, at least that means we’ll have plenty of her available for sale at BayCon42 next week!

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Five days until I head to BayCon! Continue reading “Gearing Up for BayCon42”

How many more stories can they tell about toys, people ask…

But somehow people keep telling stories about humans, and surely if any type of story has been played out by now, that would be the one.

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Having a brand new Paul McCartney album to listen to is making a hard week a lot easier. Like having an old friend stop by to help out by just keeping me company. Continue reading “Toy Story, McCartney, Fable, etc.”

Stealthing around is one of the coolest things about being a rogue in Warcraft, so that’s where the rogue album begins — slipping into a crowded tavern, not being seen by anyone

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Back in the day, I remember having to apply poisons and sharpening stones to my daggers as a Warcraft rogue. So, I thought that would make for a nice moment on the rogue album. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes: Doo-Wop Rogue”