I was going to write a few essays inspired by our Short Story Workshop this past weekend. It turns out that my husband Dean Wesley Smith beat me to it. He’s covered three topics on his blog that I was going to talk about. Since he did it so well, I’m not going to write my version. I’ll write something new in a week or so. Check out his advice here.

A new story just hit the bookshelves. “Say Hello to My Little Friend” is humor/fantasy. Those of you who came to my reading at Worldcon (thank you) heard me read this story. Now the anthology, Imaginary Friends has just appeared from Daw with the story inside.

There are lots of other good stories here. Enjoy.

This is one of the few novels of mine in German that retained its English title! Of course, the title is a woman’s name…

Here’s the cover for the newly released German edition of Paloma. I think it’s just lovely.

Mind Meld has done another long piece on an issue that won’t die: What kind of impact do tie-ins have on sf? Lots of good stuff in here. They actually asked tie-in writers as well as other sf folk. And yes, they asked me. You can find the latest tussle here.

Sci Fi Wire just published an interview with me about “Recovering Apollo 8.” You can find it here.