The Kickstarter for Writing Memoir in Flashes just funded, but there's still time to get some of the great rewards! This book will help make writing memoir accessible. The campaign ends today! #thinkinginkpress www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

Nothing like noticing a typo a few days after the protest. I stand by my position! My spelling, not so much. #nokings

Wow! What a successful #nokings protest! There was a massive turnout down at Falls Park Amphitheater, but since we had some mobility-limited people with us, our group actually stayed up on Main Street so we could share our signs with passing cars! Lots of positive energy at a peaceful protest

Thinking Ink Press has just launched a Kickstarter for the next book in our writing line, Writing Memoir in Flashes! This is a great way to tell your story one bite at a time! www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

Remember, if you do choose to go to a protest, stay safe! Here are a few tips how: www.hrc.org/resources/ti... #NoKings

My friend in words Nisi Shawl is working on a book called "The Five Petals of Thought" which will be a real version of a philosophy book she's written about fictionally. If you want to help make it happen, she's got a Go Fund Me which is still accepting donations: www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisi-...

Justice demands due process! The No Kings protest is happening today to remind everyone that democracy requires limits to power! Find your protest here: www.nokings.org #NoKings

Dragon Con day five! The Cruxshadows didn't go on until 230am last night(!), so getting a late start on the last few panels today! #dragoncon

Dragon Con day 4! Tonight at 7, the Atlanta Radio Theater Company will perform Jeremiah Willstone and the Time of Ghosts, adapted for audio by my friend Tony Sarrecchia ! #dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone

Day 3 at Dragon Con! My reading is going on right now in the Learning Center in the Hyatt. #dragoncon #jeremiahwillstone

Dragoncon, Day 2! At 7pm in Hyatt Regency VI-VII, ARTC will perform my story Jeremiah Willstone and the Hour of the Wolf, adapted for audio by Tony Sarrecchia (seen moderating an audio panel below). Come join us for two fisted steampunk adventure! #dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone

Heading to Dragon Con! I'm super stoked that two episodes of Jeremiah Willstone and the Plague of Gears will be performed by the Atlanta Radio Theater Company (adapted for audio by Tony Sarrecchia)! dresan.com/blog/2025/08... #dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone

Worldcon, Day Five! Even though it was an abbreviated day, I got to see a lot of great talks and met with a lot of great people. You know you're where you need to be when you run into someone you wanted to see, but missed, at the con! #worldcon dresan.com/blog/2025/08...

Day four at Worldcon! My talk went well and the Hugo Awards ceremony was a blast! dresan.com/blog/2025/08... #worldcon

Day 3 at Worldcon! Some great costumes! dresan.com/blog/2025/08...

Worldcon, Day Two! The Neurodiversiverse is selling out at the Liminal Fiction table, and lots of people have come by the Clockwork Alchemy / Milford table! #neurodiversiverse #worldcon dresan.com/blog/2025/08...

Worldcon Day One! Lots of people have come by the Milford Writing Workshop / Clockwork Alchemy shared fan table! #worldcon dresan.com/blog/2025/08...

Hey folks, I'm at Con Carolinas this weekend! I'll be on four panels: “Playing with AI”, “Science Fiction, Science Fact, Science Future”, “Neurodiversity in Science”, and “There and Back Again: A Doctor Who Tale”. dresan.com/blog/2025/05... #concarolinas

Also coming up later this month is the workshop on Advances in Social Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond at #icra2025 socialnav2025.pages.dev ... AI is changing rapidly, and we will be discussing how that expands what we can do with socially navigating robots.

Hey folks! The call for papers for the Embodied AI Workshop is open through Friday: embodied-ai.org/cvpr2025/#ca... ... we welcome submissions on the themes of embodied AI solutions, advances in simulation, generative methods, foundation models, and related areas of #embodiedai #cvpr2025

The Neurodiversiverse is a finalist for the IBPA Book Award! We were selected as one of the three finalists for the "Neurodivergent Communities" category! www.ibpabookaward.org/winners-neur... We'll find out May 16 whether we won gold or silver ... #neurodiversiverse

Hey folks! I'm proud to announce the Sixth Annual Embodied AI Workshop will be held June 12th this year at CVPR 2025 in Nashville! Please stay tuned as we announce our speakers, challenges, sponsors and other special events associated with the workshop! embodied-ai.org/cvpr2025/

Some Time Later: Fantastic Voyages Through Alternate Worlds is a Deal of the Day at Drive Thru Fiction! ⛭💖⛭ Get the ebook for $2.40 here tinyurl.com/2e64scec Please share to spread the word! #BookSky #steampunk #ebooksale

The Hugo and Nebula award nominations are still open, and by a crazy coincidence, Thinking Ink published a whole anthology of great (and eligible!) short stories! Check them out here: www.thinkinginkpress.com/2025/02/tip/... #neurodiversiverse #HugoAwards #NebulaAwards

This is the longest Loki (short for Loquacious(ness)) has stayed in the same room with Loli(pop(kins)), Lily(pad(skis)) and Luna(tic(les)). Yes, their common names are all 4-letter words starting with L (Loki Lily Loli Luna), so I call them the L^4. The search for detente continues. #loquaciousness

So, here's a sentence I never expected to write: A car ran over the Internet. I wonder what happened. But the impact was ... kinetic. The neighbor's mailbox was reduced to brick shrapnel and the AT&T equipment box was hurled all the way into our yard, along with a piece of the assailant's car.

Whoops, forgot to signal boost ... Erin Garcia on the Autism Support and Knowledge podcast interviews me and co-editor Liza Olmsted about our work on neurodivergent representation in the #neurodiversiverse anthology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhlk...

I liked this essay on "how to be gentle with yourself as a writer" by my #neurodiversiverse co-editor Liza Olmsted on the Insecure Writer's Support Group: www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/2024/11/i-wa... I could have used this essay during work on the book, but then, we'd need a time machine.

The season has started again ... and even at Thanksgiving last Sunday (our family does our collective Thanksgiving the Sunday before, because the kids at the kids table when I was growing up now have kids and grandkids of their own), the Christmas decorations were already up! There is no escape.

Today's the day! Get out and vote. Regardless of who you vote for, a vote for our democracy helps preserve it! But my conscience demands I say that regardless of which policies you are for, vote against the man who tried to undermine our democracy once before: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The train hasn't left the station yet. This is your reminder to vote tomorrow! BUT, my conscience demands that I say please don't vote for the authoritarian wannabe dictator. When Trump says he wants to be a dictator on day one, you should believe him ... acoup.blog/2024/10/25/n...

Okay, so now books2read is working properly, NOW I'm going to post! The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters is now available wherever ebooks and paperbacks are sold. NOT just Amazon, folks! The editors challenged the authors to produce stories about neuroivergent people interacting with aliens.

Happy to announce that The Neurodiversiverse has launched! This hopeful, empowering science fiction anthology features many #ownvoices stories of neurodivergent folks encountering aliens, and my co-editor Liza Olmsted and I are proud to see it in the world! #neurodiversiverse neurodiversiverse.com

At RSS 2024 next week, the Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation Workshop will bring robot navigation researchers together to discuss making robots move better around people! The workshop is July 19, 2024 from 1:30 to 6: unsolvedsocialnav.pages.dev #socialnav #rss2024

Using a specially designed camera from the future, we've prepared a picture of what it might look like if you attend the Embodied AI Workshop tomorrow! To learn the latest on open-world embodied AI, join us at CVPR 2024 tomorrow! #cvpr2024 #embodiedai embodied-ai.org

Hey folks, the RSS Workshop on Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation has extended its paper submission deadline to June 14th ... we are interested in both early stage and ongoing projects to improve social robot navigation. The CFP is here: unsolvedsocialnav.org/contribution #socialnav

Silicon Valley Open Studios is here! Sandi will be showing off her art this Saturday and Sunday May 18th and 19th from 11-5! You can see some of her art at the SVOS site, and I also did a gallery on my blog: svos.org/product-cate... svos.org/product-cate... www.dresan.com/blog/2024/05...

Silicon Valley Open Studios is this weekend, and my wife Sandi Billingsley will be displaying her art, furniture and mixed-media sculptures! Most of them, even the large furniture pieces, are made from recycled materials: svos.org/product-cate... svos.org/product-cate...

I now love both those movies more, thinking of Fifth Element as a prequel to Valerian.

Okay, you're going to keep hearing from me about the #neurodiversiverse for a while (it comes out in August) but the Kickstarter is rapidly coming to an end in an hour, so this is the last time you'll hear me say like, back and share for a while! www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #neurodiversity

Wow! The #neurodiversiverse Kickstarter just reached its first stretch goal: bookmarks! Thanks everyone! We're in the last day now, so if you want to help us unlock neurodiversity themed postcards, please like back and share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #neurodiversity

When one of your favorite restaurants adds a new favorite menu item - blackened shrimp and avocado po'boy from Tupelo Honey, with a side salad. Po'boys sure are a great food technology ... (though personally, I'd hold the mayo next time, it already has avocado, which doesn't need any competition).

Nothing beats bookstores. Here are two books I likely already own (Creative Illustration and Figure Drawing) which reminded me to check out books I have for my "Drawing Every Day" project. And I ordered my friend Cat Rambo's space opera "You Sexy Thing" while I was here. #barnesandnoble #bookstores

The #neurodiversiverse Kickstarter is coming to an end in less than forty-eight hours! And while we funded yesterday, we're steadily marching towards our stretch goals, so it's not too late to help us out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #neurodiversity

Wow! Since we posted our last update, the #neurodiversiverse Kickstarter funded! Thanks everyone for making it possible! We promised that if we got here, we would reveal more about our stretch goals, so ... here they are! www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... neurodiversiverse.com

Whoops! I apparently never signal boosted the #neurodiversiverse update about how we organized the table of contents ... maybe inside baseball for anthology editors, but I'm an anthology editor, so I find this stuff fascinating: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... neurodiversiverse.com

Following yesterday's #neurodiversiverse update about how we organized the table of contents, today Liza and I posted this update on how we picked stories in the first place, focusing on hopeful, empowering #ownvoices choices: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... neurodiversiverse.com

I have a guest post up at Cat Rambo's blog talking about the origins of The Neurodiversiverse anthology and why neurodiversity representation is important: www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2024/05... #neurodiversiverse #neurodiversity neurodiversiverse.com

Four days to go on The Neurodiversiverse Kickstarter! Almost 90% there. Here's a glimpse of the interior - the start of "Heart-Side Sometimes-Table", a story about aliens, neurodiversity ... and conlangs! #neurodiversity neurodiversiverse.com