Month: August 2022

If you haven’t heard, the Ring of Fire Press is going to be liquidated. I don’t know what the story on the Grantville Gazette is, but his widow’s got a lot of debts with the company. Not many copies of my book left – I have some for sale, as does Sally, of Larry Smith,… Continue reading Bad news – RoF Press going down

This year, there have already been a couple of high-profile issues – and that’s not mentioning what happened to be (see a previous post). In all the cases, it appears to have been overreactions to off-handed comments. I’m going to ignore the possibility in one case that someone on the religious right could have weaponized… Continue reading What’s gone wrong with the codes of conduct?

Hi, folks. Just changed the website – now, instead of me having to approve every comment, you just need to register (once), then log in when you want to comment.

I have been informed by programming at the Chicon/Worldcon that they don’t want me. I have no problem if they didn’t find a place to put me, that they have lot more people. However, when I asked politely to be on the waitlist, when people cancel (COVID, etc), I got this: “While there is a… Continue reading Well, I won’t be on the program at Worldcon