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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Now that Princeton University Press has committed to publishing THE ART OF THE PUBLIC GROVEL, I’m finding myself in an unfamiliar position. It’s been years since I sold a book after [...]
I am thankful to be safely home again. (My own front yard; it’s a beautiful fall, this year.) A few final scenes from Korea, just for fun… The medieval royal palace in Seoul, with the [...]
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 [...]
So far, we’ve spent three days exploring the streets of Seoul, snapping photos of medieval sites and appreciating this new culture. At this point, I could put up my pictures of historic and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Exciting news! My Korean publisher, Theory & Praxis, has invited me to come to South Korea in November for a little bit of a publicity tour. Theory & Praxis, which has published the [...]
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 [...]