From Booklist‘s review: “Moon returns to hard sf after nearly eight years, visiting familiar characters from the Vatta’s War series. Though it is intended as an alternate entry in the series, readers need not have read the previous books to enjoy this one; Moon provides enough backstory to fill in any blanks. A gripping page-turner Read More…
Author: Elizabeth
Writer, photographer, married, mother. Also native plants, wildlife, music, horses, curiosity unlimited, time limited. Pronouns she, her
When the Magic Works
Yes, I know, it’s a science fiction blog, not a fantasy blog, but sometimes when things finally go right after a struggle, it’s tempting to equate great skill with magic. Things were not working out for reasons that–it turned out–had nothing to do with my stuff, Ruta who built the sites and customized the blog Read More…
Difficulties
As of tonight, we’re stuck in testing the blogs in their new home. Something’s not working right with the WordPress files. I think I know what the problem is…or rather I hope I do…but we’re still not set up over there, and time is ticking away. I think the problem is that the WordPress theme Read More…
Move Is In Progress
As I said a couple of posts back, I’m having to move from my previous registrar and hosting service, SFF.net, to a new one. Well, the move is in progress, thanks to my new web maintenance person (web guru, as I prefer to call her), Karen Shull. Things have been sent thither by ftp, yesterday, Read More…
Reader Help Needed!
Late arriving inspiration…and I suddenly need the names of the instructors at the Slotter Key Academy that Ky mentioned in Engaging the Enemy when she was visiting the Mackensee homeworld, at the dinner with the founder of that merc company. And predictably, though it was around two or three weeks ago when I was looking Read More…
Rolling Zeros Again
Over 132,000 words now and misbehaving near the end. The plot threads that should be whipping around each other and forming a terminal shape are instead waving wildly in the breeze. A good part of that is the current political situation, which is sufficiently dire to grab my attention multiple times a day and suggest Read More…
Cold Welcome: Signs of Spring
Spring flowers are coming out here (including the non-native little white daffodil-shaped things) and not having a cold welcome from the weather at all. Dandelions, a honeysuckle that flowers in winter and smells like lemon, swelling buds on all but the most wary trees and bushes. So…what about Cold Welcome? You’ve seen both the covers. Read More…
Question for the Group
Suppose you are in opposition to the main characters. Of course, you don’t think of yourself as a villain; you think of them as annoyances in the way of your Grand Plan. But consider someone who (as is not unknown in the construction industry) is both a tough, hardnosed boss running a big business…and also Read More…
UK Cover for COLD WELCOME
I can now reveal the cover for the UK edition of COLD WELCOME (Orbit UK, April). However, I have to write a few lines about it, before this particular WordPress theme will let me post an image and it may not be a good big one. If this one looks small, hop over to my Read More…
Notice of Change
My hosting service is closing down at the end of March. I need to find a new hosting service, a new registrar, get everything backed up and transferred, ASAP. As most of you know, getting that DNS change thing accomplished takes awhile (or can take awhile) and so there may be a gap in which Read More…