Vonda N McIntyre: pointing out the pitfalls*

When I first joined Book View Cafe, Sarah Zettel told me - quite casually, as though it were not in and of itself worldshaking - that Vonda N McIntyre would be my mentor, my sheepdog, my Speaker to Joomla and general hand-holder through the perplexities of BVC. Vonda N McIntyre, people. Who has always been one of my definitions of What Science Fiction Is.

So, yeah. Vonda sends me e-mails. (I said this, or something like it, to Sarah one time; she said, "How do you think I feel? Ursula sends me e-mails...")

Anyway: fanboy squee registered; move on.

Now y'all get to be almost as lucky as I am. Vonda has written a guide to some of the difficulties of SF/F, and how to handle them. It's published by BVC as an e-book, it's DRM-free like all our books, and it's a bare $2.99. You can order it here.

Pitfalls of Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy (Non-fiction)
General Useful Information & Other Opinionated Comments
Vonda N. McIntyre
July 24, 2012 $2.99 ISBN: 978-1-61138-191-7



Writing advice from SF writer Vonda N. McIntyre, including the indespensable McIntyre's First Law.

*Now I am earwormed with "Measuring the Marigolds". What have I done to deserve this?

It's like living in a fucking Ray Bradbury story

Whoever is responsible for the urban planning in Sunnyvale should be bloody ashamed of themselves. Or else just declare pedestrians illegal, so that at least we know where we stand. Which is in the middle of the bloody traffic, obviously.

I just went to walk from our house to an Indian grocery less than a mile away. I probably walked a mile more than that, on account of you-can't-get-there-from-here; and frankly I feel lucky to have made it back in one piece, on account of vanishing sidewalks on major cross streets. On two occasions I had absolutely no alternative but to walk in the street for the length of a city block. Which I don't suppose is legal, and is certainly not safe.

(And then I didn't love the place when I finally got there - no kind of order in the spices, and the surliest service I've come across in the US - but that's a side-issue. I might not go back, except that it's a point of principle now...)

In other worserer news

There isn't even any bloody beer.

*kicks things*