Monthly Archives: October 2020

At the Springville Museum of Art

Book restorer, plastic artist, and ukulele virtuoso Chris McAfee turned a copy of City of the Saints into a piece of steampunk art a few years ago. That piece is currently on display in Springville, Utah. And also available for … Continue reading

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Seshnelans

The fantasy gaming world of Glorantha has a land on the western shores of its northern continent called Seshnela, which one of the realms dominated by “Western” or “Malkioni” culture. How this culture has been represented has changed over various … Continue reading

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World Fantasy: Query Workshop

This Wednesday, at the World Fantasy Convention, I’ll be presenting a two-hour workshop on writing query letters. I did this same workshop at LTUE in February, and it was very well received. February’s class was in person, of course, and … Continue reading

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Camouflage

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Barbecue Sauce

Elder Nick Benson, from Blackfoot, Idaho, introduced me to the idea that you could make your own barbecue sauce. We were in Brescia, Italy, in 1993, and barbecue wasn’t exactly to be found on the shelves at the time. On … Continue reading

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My Own Private Idaho

There are places and institutions that exist persistently in my dreams, in significantly different form from how I actually experienced them. One of them is our house in Idaho. In my dreams, but only in my dreams, we remodeled the … Continue reading

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