its just not defensible in 2025 for democratic candidates and officeholders not to have a clear position on asserting the equal rights of transgender americans. if you're unwilling, step aside and let a patriot take your place.

Walk this way

Looks like my new short story collection will be published October 3 -- assuming I can get my software to cooperate in getting the files ready to upload.

As I've seen it come up, no, authors don't get paid for writing blurbs for other authors. We do it (mostly) to pay it forward and to bring attention to work we think is good. Also, if an editor/publisher tried to bribe me for a blurb, that email would go up here and on my personal site SO FAST

So if one wants to produce audiobooks somewhere other than ACX, where would you recommend?

As I work through editing the stories in my new collection, I sometimes find myself admiring my own writing. It's nice to be reminded I was, at least sometimes, good at my job.

I'm listening to Taylor Swift's "reputation." Anyone who dismisses her music as mere fluff for teenage girls is not paying attention. I particularly like "Don't Blame Me."

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

So I checked on which of my books were pirated in the Anthropic AI case. After weeding out duplicates and others that don't qualify, there are forty-seven.

I'm getting serious about publishing a new collection of my stories from the past three decades or so. I've decided I will indeed write short intros for them, as I did in Celestial Debris, and here's my first rough pass at the cover.

BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry. Hail to you, union champions 💪

Saw my cardiologist today. My heart is still working. I, for one, am pleased to hear this. You know, until recently I never expected to HAVE a cardiologist.

Plus Montreal and Glasgow. I'm probably still forgetting some.

Me, @colleencoover.bsky.social & @ghostgreen.bsky.social continue to be beautiful angels giving you FREE COMICS EVERY MONDAY. And it's about ghosts! And adventure. And giant bears! Weird people! Strange love! Jokes! Clink the link for the FREE-dom! www.webtoons.com/en/romance/h...

(scornful eyeroll) *This* skinny little early-twenties nurse was walking the midnight streets of Manhattan, all alone, when these guys weren't a glint in *anybody*'s eye. I rode the subway untroubled late at night. These guys are—most honestly—sad pitiful weenies unworthy of reproduction. 😏

Well, darn. Now I don't get to post it.

Oh, good. More people are starting to admit what's happening. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Gavin Newsom holding a mirror up DJT

Well, yeah! He's gotta go stir up some "crime" so he can take credit for ending it.

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

Good thread:

"Traveling Band," by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Saw "Fantastic Four: First Steps" today. Fun movie; Vanessa Kirby was perfect as Sue Storm. They showed four previews before the feature, and all four were for sequels: "Zootopia 2," "The Bad Guys 2," "Freakier Friday," and "Avatar: Fire & Ash." Originality not exactly a big thing there.

"School's Out," by Alice Cooper

4. Blueberries do not belong in pancakes

If you see this, post a DC comic cover you love.

me and my book project

Just a heads up that in addition to fake accounts popping up across social media, someone is now using a fake email ([email protected]) to mass email other writers with the intent to scam them. Please be aware that THIS IS NOT ME!! 😩 Thank you to everyone who has made me aware of this.

Got my Worldcon schedule: Wednesday Aug. 13 4:30 pm: Table Talk Thursday Aug. 14 1:30 pm: SFF in Comics! (panel) Saturday Aug. 16 1:30 pm: Autograph session

My favorite thing about being a writer is when I walk into a bookstore and see a whole lot of friends' books on a table display.

Democrats keep thinking their voters want to see them collaborate with Republicans, when really we just want to see them collaborate with each other. Be a team, guys!

I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. Since when can a fighter carry a 30,000-lb. bomb?

It would seem that an audiobook of The Unwelcome Warlock is in the works. I just approved Wildside's choice for the reader.

I'm working on a scene in Tom Derringer & the Sinister Statue (#5 in the series) that refers back to something on page 33 of Tom Derringer & the Aluminum Airship (#1 in the series) that just seemed like a throw-away bit of background. Now it'll look like I planned this all along. I didn't. 😜

"Poker Face" has "good buddy," played by the voice of Steve Buscemi, as Charlie's sounding board, so it's not quite just one ongoing character.

This is precisely WHY we moved to the Pacific Northwest. All other considerations were just afterthoughts.

Well, I wrote six pages of Tom Derringer & the Sinister Statue over the weekend, but today, nothing. Maybe I'll do better tomorrow.

"Gulf of Mexico"

The sole criteria I will be voting on in the 2028 primary is which candidate credibly promises to put the largest number of Trump officials in prison. I do not care about any of their other policies.

Doing some organizing and came across my copy of “Astro City” #1/2 with the emotional story “The Nearness of You” by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social and Brent Anderson. Every time I read it, the story resonates strongly. Hits hard and is one of my favorites. #comics

Note to Democrats hungry for Elon Musk's money: The answer isn't to suck up to him. If you suck up to him, all that will happen is that he'll take more money from American taxpayers. The answer is to tax the shit out of him.

That's very fine work.

Many people--so many people!--are saying we should start calling Air Force One the Panda Express because it carries almost 300 pounds of Orange Chicken on every flight.

I notice he says he knows me, but I don't recall ever meeting him. I probably did, but forgot. Still, it's nice to be acknowledged.

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

I've sold a story called "To See the New Jerusalem" to the Seattle Worldcon anthology. (I submitted it before any of the AI kerfuffle.)

I have finished reading The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western, by Richard Brautigan. What a very, very weird book! I enjoyed it, but I can't really imagine ever wanting to re-read it, so I think it's going to be given away.

There's no HOA in my neighborhood -- and no clotheslines.

Well, we don't. We can see into six neighbors' yards from our place, and none of them have clotheslines, either. When we were living Europe in AirBnBs, or traveling in China, almost everywhere we stayed had some sort of clothesline or equivalent, but not in the U.S.