Blackberry winter

I’m back to getting up at 4 AM and writing, writing, writing. The History of the Medieval World is CRAWLING towards completion. I am slightly relieved, on going back and rereading some of [...]

Dispatch from New York

Conference season has now officially begun! I took off last Thursday to speak at a convention on Long Island (my first time there!), and although I intended to take pictures while I was there, I [...]

The geek-fan in me comes out

I’m a little slow on the uptake, obviously, but I’ve just discovered that Orson Scott Card READ MY BOOK. And commented about it on his blog. Here’s what he says: “Susan [...]

Adventures! Adventures!

It’s a beautiful, cold, colorful fall week in Korea, and we’ve spent the last two days adventuring. Day before yesterday, we set off south for Gyeongju, the ancient capital of the old Korean [...]

We’re here!!

In Korea, that is, where I’ll be doing a number of interviews to help promote the Korean translations of my books published by Theory & Praxis. Here’s the view out of the hotel [...]

Dispatch from the West Coast

I flew into Sacramento on Thursday to give a series of workshops in Roseville, at the CCHE convention. And was greeted, as always, by a wonderful and enthusiastic group of Californians who sat in [...]

Dispatch from NoVa

That’s Northern Virginia, for you non-East Coasters. (Northern Virginia is its own little part of the world, quite different from southeastern Virginia where I live, so deserves its own [...]