Blog posts, essays, etc about writing fiction
- List for Shepherd Books: The best books to transport you to a foggy valley in early medieval Europe (May 2023)
- My Favorite Bit (Assassin’s Creed: The Magus Conspiracy), Mary Robinette Kowal’s blog, September 2022
- Five Things I Learned Writing Assassin’s Creed: The Magus Conspiracy (Chuck Wendig’s blog), August 2022
- Big Idea post (John Scalzi’s blog) about historical assassinations and The Magus Conspiracy, August 2022
- Writing Prose in Game Worlds for the Dream Foundry blog (August 2022)
- My Favorite Bit post (Mary Robinette Kowal’s blog) about sisterly relationships in The Embroidered Book, May 2022
- Big Idea post (John Scalzi’s blog) about women and power in The Embroidered Book, May 2022
- Revolutions and Why They Fail for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy series, March 2022
- The joy of listening to Emily Wilson’s Odyssey, for Skiffy and Fanty, Jan. 2019
- A recipe for 18th century drinking chocolate for Cooking the Books, Jan 2019
- The One Book That Taught Me to Take the Long View of History, for Tor.com
- Five Things I Learned Writing Alice Payne Arrives, on Chuck Wendig’s site
- Five SFF books about women in love with women, for Tor.com
- Bright spots: Rhonda Parrish’s series on optimism
- Bill, Ted and the end of history, for Tor.com
- The painting that helped me finish my novel, for Marie Brennans’ Spark of Life series
- My (small press) writing day (curated by rob mclennan)
- Writing a villain for Mary Robinette Kowal’s My Favorite Bit series
- My most memorable meal for Lawrence Schoen’s Eating Authors series
- Food of the Underworld at Cat Rambo’s site
- How I got the idea for Armed in Her Fashion at J. Kathleen Cheney’s “Research Rabbit Holes”
- Political philosophies and SFF on Dan Koboldt’s “Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy” series
- Now reprinted in the book Putting the Fact in Fantasy.
- What’s Different About Your World, and Who Knows About It? at Fantastic History
- Settings of silver and gold — Skiffy and Fanty, Jan. 16, 2018
- What I’ve learned about convention accessibility on the SFWA blog
- The Art of Story Mechanics on the SFWA blog
- Short story tips on Dan Koboldt’s site
- How Not to Read Like a Beta-Reader on the SFWA blog
- In Praise of Rejectomancy on the SFWA blog
- The Difference Between Drafts on the Red Sofa blog
- Making Money from Short Stories on the Red Sofa blog
- Writing and parenting on Spencer Ellsworth’s site
Journalism and other recent non-fiction articles
- Short profile of SF writer Premee Mohamed, for This Magazine, Sept. 2021
- Will Ontario’s medical system ever learn modern communication? Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 8, 2021
- On getting a COVID-19 test in rural Ontario, Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 19, 2020.
- On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and what it means to science fiction. Ottawa Citizen, July 19 2019.
- Policymaker of the Year: Jody Wilson-Raybould — profile for Inside Policy, December 2017
- What is a sanctuary city? — TVO, March 29, 2017
- The right books for dark times — Article Mag, Feb. 17, 2017
- We won’t go back to the bad old days — National Post, Jan. 22, 2017
- Decolonizing science fiction — the inaugural article for Article Mag, Dec. 1, 2016
- How common sense came to mean its opposite under Trump – CBC Opinion, Nov. 25, 2016
- How history can change in an instant – Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 4, 2016