More on Constellations

Today, editor Marco Palmieri announced the table of contents for Constellations, Pocket Books’ 40th-anniversary Star Trek anthology. The authors involved have been known for about six months now, but today the anthology’s running order and individual story titles, some of which had not been revealed, were announced: Introduction by David Gerrold “First, Do No Harm”Continue reading “More on Constellations”

On the Road

Today begins Shore Leave, a science-fiction convention I attend every July just north of Baltimore. And so, I am on the road, from Raleigh to Baltimore. It’s a long, lonely road, enlivened by the craziness of the Washington mixing bowl, the hecticness of the traffic on I-95 from Fredericksburg north. Fun, fun times. Tonight’s programmingContinue reading “On the Road”

On Page Proofs

The page proofs for “Make-Believe,” my story in Star Trek: Constellations, arrived today. There's a part of me that keeps expecting Ashton Kutcher to come along and say, “Dude, you've been Punk'd!” Edits, copy-edits, contracts, now page proofs, and I just can't shake that feeling, that I haven't really sold this story, that it's allContinue reading “On Page Proofs”