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The William F. Wu Collection at NYU

So I was perusing Publisher’s Weekly when I came across a notice about an exhibit on Asian American images in U.S. Comics.  On display is the  William F. Wu Collection at New York University’s Bobst Library.  Sponsoring the exhibit is NYU’s Fale Library and Special Collections and NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute.  Opening reception has already passed, [...]

Cinderella’s Mother

About this excerpt: A friend of mine suggested that I start posting up fairy tales on my website, but I realized that at this point in time I’m not very interested in writing for children.  However, there are things about the old fairy tales, little loopholes, that have always struck me.  So as an exercise, [...]

Rachael in NYC

  So, as you may have surmised, my friend Rachael came to visit me last week.  We went to Lunacon together and here is a picture of her and me taken by Marco Palmieri. Other than Lunacon I gave her the grand tour of New York City.  The sights included Chinatown, Statue of Liberty, Empire [...]

Lunacon 2011

So what is Lunacon?  Lunacon is an annual science fiction and fantasy convention held in Rye Brook, New York.  It’s New York’s oldest SF&F convention with a history spanning fifty-four years.  It focuses primarily on the literary, but has panels on many different topics within the genre.  There was also usually a masquerade ball, but [...]

Top Ten Reasons I Write

It’s taken me at least an hour to fall asleep since I was a child.  If I’m going to have some form of chronic insomnia it might as well be useful. Plots pop into my head when I wake up in the morning, what else am I supposed to do with them? I’ve had a [...]