“Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. I suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories. It is our right and responsibility to create a new world.” — Adrienne Maree Brown The quote above is from Emergent Strategy, a… [Read More]

When you sit down to write, how much time do you give yourself to practice? I mean the off-record stuff: writing exercises and warm ups. Now think of the way dancers or musicians interact with their art. The performance, the finished piece, is the culmination of hours of practice: boring warm ups, weird experiments, and… [Read More]

What a few weeks it’s been. At the Victoria Festival of Authors, I tried reading some new scenes from Radiant Shimmering Light, just to see how they’d land for the audience. It was… ILLUMINATING. Talking with my readers has been fascinating; I never know what’s coming next. I thought that people would be asking me… [Read More]