A few weeks ago, I wrote this post about the Dark Side of YA. Since then, I’ve been asked why I write YA if the community is so toxic. I’ll address that now. The Short answer to this issue is: The community isn’t really toxic, it’s a very vocal minority of its members that give …
Welcome to Science Saturday. I don’t like it when I don’t post in between Saturdays, but I’m giving Deathless all of my writerly attention right now. There’s plenty going on outside of writing, too. Anyway, here’s what happened this week in the world of science: Science Magazine: FarFarOut Astronomers searching for Planet Nine recently discovered our …
Welcome to another Science Saturday. Here’s the scoop from this week. The Cluttered Desk: Opportunity (is that allowed?) This week, NASA pulled the plug on Opportunity, The project that operated a rover on the surface of Mars for 14 years. If you missed my post about it yesterday, follow the link above. ScienceNews: LIGO …
On Wednesday, NASA announced that they have officially ended the Opportunity program, after again failing to establish communication with the rover on Tuesday night. The rover lost contact with Earth on June 10th, 2018. Opportunity was a golf-cart sized rover that was sent to Mars in 2004 to collect geological data pertaining to Mars’s hydrologic …
Here’s an update on my progress towards draft III of Deathless. Since I finished my reread of Draft II, I’ve been slowly making the corrections and improvements that I think the book needs. A little insider information that some of you might find interesting: Since I found that the majority of the book (everything except the beginning) …
Happy weekend everybody, and welcome to Science Saturday. Here’s the scoop for this week. National Geographic: Milky Way Vs. Andromeda Postponed We’ve known for a long time (since 1912ish) that the Andromeda Galaxy will eventually collide with the Milky Way Galaxy, but the timetable has been changed since the ESA’s Gaia spacecraft gathered new data …
The world can be a cruel place. Last week, another sad story from the YA community made the rounds on the internet, Amélie Wen Zhao, would-be author of a new YA fantasy series, was bullied by overzealous social activists into pulling the first book of the series, Blood Heir, from publication just months before its …
Hello everyone, welcome to Science Saturday. Here’s what we’ve learned this week: LiveScience: Supernovas Are Hot A team of scientists studing supernova 1987a, the closest and most recent supernova to Earth since the invention of the telescope, are now using x-rays to observe the dying star’s emissions. The result? Supernovas are really cool. Not …