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Mom and the Ankylosaurus

Blogging the Mesozoic

IT STARTS EARLIER EVERY YEAR

No I’m not talking about the impending holidays; they’ve been in full swing for weeks now. I mean it’s barely mid-November, we’ve not had a hard frost yet, and already I’m getting notices urging me

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LIVE FROM WORLD FANTASY CON 2015

Here’s Analog editor Trevor Quachri rocking the Analog/Asimov’s party at WFC 2015 in Saratoga Springs, NY. This annual gathering of the clan of fiction writers, editors, artists, and agents focuses on mainly on fantasy, though

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THE 19TH MARKET

I recently sold a short story to the 19th market I tried. I first submitted this story to an editor almost exactly three years before it finally found a publisher. Why did selling the story

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BACK TO THE FUTURE DAY

I’m happy to see one of my favorite time travel movies (the original, not the sequels) getting so much attention today. Not only is it a fun story, but it also happens to be the

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THE FUTURE IS PROLOGUE

Analog’s December issue features my second guest editorial, “The Future is Prologue.” Astute readers will recognize my reworking of Shakespeare’s line from The Tempest, “Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, in yours and

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IT’S NATIONAL FOSSIL DAY

Quick quiz for those of you who’ve always been into fossils. 1. What is a fossil? A) The bones of a dead creature B) Stone in which minerals have replaced the remains of a dead

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AMAZON AUTHOR PAGES: NOT JUST FOR NOVELISTS

When I first started publishing short fiction, I found it frustrating that so much of the writing advice out there was geared toward novelists. This still seems to be true, although nowadays, advice for fiction

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