I am celebrating the holiday this year not in the historical tradition, with all the painful and problematic luggage it carries, but in the simple, literal, and commonly-accepted meaning of the word: thanks-giving. The world’s a shitshow right now. We all know that. But. I am thankful to be here, where ‘here’ is among friends …
I have a firm conviction that if you give someone a warm meal and a hot shower, they can do nearly anything they set their minds to that day. Which is why my first and preferred charities have always been food banks. For several years, I ran #WillWriteToFeedOthers, wherein I wrote a story in November, …
This year for Worldbuilders’ charity auction, I am offering A Thing:https://worldbuilders.org/…/laura-anne-gilman-will-discuss…/ I’m offering a ‘bluesky’ session for a writer who wants to throw plot-ideas or career worries against a wall and get critical-but-nonjudgmental feedback from a 20+ year survivor of the publishing industry. This will be a 45 minute session via Skype, for pretty much …
reposting this from my Tumblr account Since there seems to be some outraged confusion among Anons and Nonnys, let me clarify. If you support the Trump/Pence/Bannon regime’s attempts to isolate, persecute, and otherwise remove basic civil and citizen’s rights from entire groups within our society, based on who they are rather than dealing with …
Okay, we’re doing this. Or you’ve got the chance to do this, and in turn make me do this. What’s this? #WillWrite2FeedOthers. Year three. You donate. I write. As many of you know, one of the charities I give to regularly is my local food bank. Because a warm meal makes everything else, no matter …
Or, as people with good breath control call it, “The Greatest Internet Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen.” We just finished up this year’s weeklong homage to creativity, joie de vivre, and teamwork, and I blogged about it for Book View Cafe. Breaking the Comfort Zone, and GISHWHES Remembering What it’s All About Not …