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No Pants Party. You’re invited.

So. My book comes out next week and I’m 50% excited and 70% terrified and 100% not sure how math works. Normally when a book comes out you have a big launch party in a big city and big people come and then I have a big panic attack and everyone wanders around making a bigContinue reading “No Pants Party. You’re invited.”

I WON 5 HUGO AWARDS. And we all lost.

Do you know what the Hugo Awards are? They’re the annual award for best sci-fi and fantasy writing and this year they were full of controversy because they were sort of hijacked. The people voting had the opportunity to vote for “no award” in each category and I suspected that might be the case sinceContinue reading “I WON 5 HUGO AWARDS. And we all lost.”

Let me be frank.

This week I spoke at frank in Florida and it was lovely. Click here to see the glorious magnificence of my hotel room. I highly recommend checking out all of the speeches but if you have 30 minutes and want to see mine you can check it out here. You have to fast-forward to the endContinue reading “Let me be frank.”

This is what’s happening in my mind anyway.

This weekend I’ll be at WordCamp in San Francisco to talk about blogging. I’m not afraid to admit that my 10-year-old daughter knows far more about coding than I do, and that I suspect anyone who can create a website using strings of seemingly random words and numbers must be involved in some sort of witchcraft. If anyone asksContinue reading “This is what’s happening in my mind anyway.”

UPDATED: As soon as ASU gets back to me I’ll be available for consultations and endorsements. And it will be awesome.

I’m not sure how it happened (I suspect voodoo) but I was somehow named the Distinguished Alumna of 2014 by Angelo State University, my hometown college. (ASU Magazine clipping at right to prove I’m not just drunk right now.) It was very flattering but equally baffling, and I spent the weekend pretending to be “distinguished” and hoping thatContinue reading “UPDATED: As soon as ASU gets back to me I’ll be available for consultations and endorsements. And it will be awesome.”

I assure you, that was not my nipple.

So this week I did a keynote address at the Texas Conference for Women. The other keynote speakers were all uber-professional and awesome, and one was a nobel peace laureate, and they all said very important, inspirational things. And then I got on the stage and panicked and decided to do a reading from myContinue reading “I assure you, that was not my nipple.”