A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.