There's a group of us writerly folk that have gravitated into an online community called - how did you guess?... - SFNovelists. Our website, with Captain Tobias Buckell at the helm, is over here, newly revamped and refurbished and looking brand spanking new and shiny with lots of cool stuff on it about LOTS of your favourite authors.

There's always been a "feed" of members' blogs, with the original site mirroring what we've all been saying in our own blogs - but now there's a new feature on the site, which is a SFNovelists Blog where members of the community post original entries on that site. We are setting up a monthly rotation so there's always going to be something new and interesting on the site - my day is the fifth of each month, and my very first SFNovelists blog entry is now up on the site. So go read. And go back often. It's a great site full of talented and knowledgeable and eloquent people - it's going to be good reading.

It currently has 22 members, and I absolutely promise that it won't clutter up your inbox with stuff - when pertinent information comes up it'll be posted, otherwise THIS is the place where I'll be doing most of the chitchatting. You can go HERE and sign up for it if you're interested in being on the announcements list. There's an opening newsletter there now, members are allowed to post to the group and I hope they will, and that is all.

Just a small public service announcement, is all.

I'm doing a Worldbuilding workshop, June 23-25, in the beautiful San Juan Islands out here in Puget Sound. Read all about it here:

http://www.songandword.com/schedule4.htm

The workshop is limited to eight participants, and I've got one lady registered already - so there's seven places left. It's Puget Sound, in high summer, and a weekend of writing and revelling in the company of other writers - sorry, ladies only, due to the nature of accomodations provided - if you think that you or someone you know (feel free to disseminate the info freely!) might benefit from or purely enjoy this kind of thing, you can register on-line at the URL above. Perhaps I'll be seeing you there!