Author Archives: JE

Part 2 of my non-awaited discussion of the novels nominated Nebula is now up at the Blog Gate. It contains my first conflict of interest! Not to be missed!

Word on the street is that Amazon and Barnes and Noble online have Blood of Ambrose in stock (with brick-and-mortar stores to follow shortly). Used copies are running $17.00 more expensive than new copies at Amazon–I have no idea what … Continue reading →

Somewhere over the Pacific it is still Wednesday, so I feel that my Blog Gate post of the week is not actually late. (Well, late-ish, maybe.)

Intrepid (and Hugo-nominated) editor Lou Anders (who is busy enough with more important things lately; see a recent interview here) has put up the full text of the Morlock story “A Book of Silences” (originally published in Black Gate 10). … Continue reading →

Franz Kafka International Airport: not as inviting as it sounds. Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport Maybe the weirdest thing about this joke is the cool professionalism with which the story is delivered by Bobbie Battista, a … Continue reading →

I was sorry to see that Nicholas Hughes, son of Ted Hughes (the late poet laureate, adapter of Seneca and Euripides, author of Crow etc.) and Sylvia Plath (author of Ariel, The Bell Jar etc.) had taken his own life. … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post of the week is finally up, a penultimate Nebulation (about the Nebunovellas, this time). I’m working on the novels, but I may not have them all read by next week’s post: kind of depends on how … Continue reading →

Plumbing is the mind-killer. Plumbing is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my plumbing. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye … Continue reading →

1. Vergil’s Facebook page (seen at Rogue Classicism). 2. The Hobbiton & Barchester panel for Flycon, starting at 2 PM Eastern Daylight Time (11 AM Pacific).

The FlyCon chat session was a blast. I stayed on and kibbitzed on Kate Elliott’s, forming a settled conviction that everyone in the world should buy millions of Kate Elliott books.