Wassup-wassup-wassup! Just wanted to say Happy Mother’s Day to all the nerdy moms out there, before I open up this big ol’ batch of procrastination for ya. 1. Just in time for Mother’s Day, The Mary Sue is celebrating “Momtagonists,” including Elastigirl from THE INCREDIBLES, Jessica Jones (from AVENGERS 2?), Athena from BSG, and of [...]

1. I loved this round-up of the 30 Nerdiest MAD Magazine Covers from the last sixty years. As one might imagine, there have been quite a few. It was hard for me to pick just one for the featured image. But in the end my enduring love for STAR TREK IV won out. [Topless Robot] 2. [...]

1. Oh my dear gosh, summer is looking bleak TV-wise for sci-fi and fantasy. We can look forward to the return of shows like TRUE BLOOD, WILFRED, BREAKING BAD, and WAREHOUSE 13; and make do with FALLING SKIES and ALPHAS; but everything else looks truly suck-tacular. [i09's Ultimate Guide to This Summer's Sci-Fi and Fantasy [...]

This year it takes the form of a lament about never, ever getting writer’s block over at “Girlfriend’s Book Club”: At least once a year I talk about having been called to writing as a curse. Most of the time I regard doing what I do for a living as a blessing, but every so [...]

Okay, I’m on deadline (yes, again), so I’m going to have to make this super-quick like a bunny. 1. By most accounts, I’m a pretty happy (if insanely chatty) drunk. So while I found this explanation of what makes some people happy and some people belligerent drunks interesting, I also found it confusing. Basically their [...]

Before we get into this week’s batch of procrastination, some news news on the next book front. We were shooting for summer, but we’ve now been scheduled for this October. And I should have an exact date soonish, too. So stay tuned for that announcement. Meanwhile, here’s a whole bunch of procrastination to get you [...]

Yeppers, this sold-out art print by Wendy MacNaughton pretty much nails it. ~via LikeCool

I actually like other people. A whole lot. I love talking with them IRL and emailing back and forth. I’ve literally thanked God for the invention of Facebook. But even when I want to talk on the phone, even when I call the person myself, I don’t really want to talk on the phone. Often what feels like a 15 minute conversation turns out to have only been two, most of it spent by me trying to figure out how soon it would be socially acceptable to get off the phone.

1. This writing advice from C.S. Lewis (who wrote the very first book that ever sent me into a complete book thrall, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE), is both excellent and still “write” on-point. [io9] a. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make [...]

Because I totally did for a number of reasons: 1. My daughter kept snatching and throwing my glasses at the worst times. One time she threw them while we were out on the street, and I had to figure out how to keep her from running into traffic and find my glasses at the same [...]