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Mom and the Ankylosaurus

Blogging the Mesozoic

SPRING FLOWERS!

There’s nothing like beautiful, fragrant spring flowers to lift my spirits, so I made these three arrangements. Which is your favorite? I keep changing my mind.

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WRITING HARD SCIENCE FICTION

Frequently, when authors hear that I write for Analog Science Fiction and Fact, they say they wouldn’t try to write hard science fiction. As much as they may love this sub-genre, they are put off

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MY NEXT STORY DROPS ON MARCH 10!

I tell you this now so you can get in on the ebook for a discounted pre-publication price. My story, “Etruscan Afterlife,” combines an ancient sarcophagus for two people with a mechanism for uploading the

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I AM AN ANALOG AWARD FINALIST, AGAIN!

By Rosemary Claire Smith on March 10, 2017 | Edit ZOMG! Look! My novelette, “The Next Frontier,” is a finalist for the AnLab Readers’ Award! It was published in the July/August, 2021 issue of Analog.

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MID-WINTER BLUES AND SUMMER FROLICS

With the recent cold snap and pandemic seemingly everywhere, I’ve been huddling indoors making plans for all the places I maybe could visit when warmer weather hits. I’m mostly planning trips around science fiction and

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MY 2021 YEAR IN REVIEW

I’m pleased to announce that I had a couple of stories and several articles published in 2021: The Next Frontier: an alternate-history novelette about the 1960s space race in the July/August issue of Analog (link

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NEW STORY IDEA

I’m beginning to think new story ideas are a way to procrastinate on other works in progress. This is the second time in two months that getting bogged down in a complicated, research-intensive piece has

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