: Phased Retirement Twenty-eight years ago, I joined the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. …
: New Shimenawa Four years ago, I discovered what shimenawa were and I made one for my beloved sakura tree. But it …
: Watch City Steampunk Festival On May 11, 2024, I will be bringing a Small Publishing in a Big Universe (SPBU) vendor table to the …
: Fantastic Reviews of Revin’s Heart Recently, I was gratified to receive two extremely generous reviews of Revin’s Heart. Reviews are …
: Boskone Wrapup In 2023, I had been scheduled to appear at Boskone, but ended up instead in the hospital. It was a …
: Advertising Books Trying to publicize your books is hard. It’s one of the things that you don’t think much about until …
: Boskone 2024 Schedule Last year, I was scheduled to appear at Boskone, but ended up going into the hospital the week …
: The Better Angels and Bebe’s Bedtime Bedlam David was still on the bridge of Angels’ Wings, the Better Angels’ starship, when Bebe came out in …
: Making Pitches to Sell Books I’ve been rather surprised to discover that I seem to be pretty good at selling books. It doesn’t …
: Arisia 2024 I attended Arisia for the second time as a participant. Last year, I was only one one or two panels …
: Wandering Shop Stories Early in my fiction writing, I really struggled with writing “stories.” By that, I mean …
: Arisia 2024 My schedule for Arisia 2024 has been finalized. I will be moderating one panel, serving as a …
: Year in Writing: 2023 I generally had a good year writing. But I was hospitalized for 12 days in early 2023, which caused …
: Steven D. Brewer 2023 Awards Eligibility In the spring, Water Dragon Publishing released the last two novelettes of Revin’s Heart, I …
: LinkedIn and Fake Social Media For years, I mostly scorned LinkedIn. I had made a profile early on, but mostly didn’t bother …
: Revin’s Heart: Collected Edition Revin, a young man from a poor mining town, has pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become the …
: The Better Angels at the Truck Stop at the Center of the Galaxy Several months after I joined Water Dragon Publishing the editor invited me to submit a manuscript …
: Mill District Holiday Arts Market On Sunday, Nov 19, 2023, I set up a vendor table for Water Dragon Publishing to sell books. The …
: Better Angels: Tour de Force The Better Angels. Entertainment. Music and Dancing. (And Rescues!) Life is tough for non-human …
: One Year Later I joined Twitter in March 2008 and, after initially puzzling about what it was for, found it to be …
: Scary Busy During the academic year, my time for pursuing my writing is extremely limited. Almost all of my …
: Writing for Persuasion For more than 20 years, I’ve taught a course in scientific writing. In the course, students …
: LOSCon 49 This morning at 2:10am I got an email from the organizers of LOSCon indicating that I was going to …
: Everything Falling into Place This fall, I’ve launched a new program at the Straw Dog Writers Guild: Straw Dog Writes. Modeled on …
: Where lies responsibilty? I remember as I became an adult, beginning to adopt responsibility for the actions of my country. I …
: Summer Ends, Fall Begins I had an exciting summer! I drove cross-country to attend BayCon in July and then visited the …
: Islands of Revin’s Heart ‘Zine As I was writing Revin’s Heart, I had created a map (in Inkscape) to show the relative …
: BayCon 2023 BayCon was a thing! My younger son Daniel and I drove about 5000 through 14 states over 14 days to …
: Selling Revin’s Heart At BayCon, I spent a fair amount of time in the Dealer Room selling copies of Revin’s Heart. …
: New Review in Time for Baycon I was extremely gratified to receive a positive review for all of Revin’s Heart by The Faerie …
: Islands of Revin’s Heart Revin’s Heart takes place on island nations — or on airships traveling between the …
: Why I Wrote Revin’s Heart Rewriting the Rules is the final novelette of Revin’s Heart, my steampunky fantasy adventure …
: BayCon 2023 BayCon, here I come! In October, 2022, I registered for BayCon and was super excited to look forward …
: Cover Reveal: Rewriting the Rules When peace is no longer possible, one must either go to war or run away. Abandoned by the nobility, …
: Summer Begins After a long, dark winter and a busy spring, summer finally begins! Being hospitalized in February …
: Looking Forward to Summer During the academic year, I don’t have much time for writing. I’ve managed to do a few things. But I …
: It’s Complicated It’s Complicated (aka The Mary Stories) is a serialized rural fantasy available through Kindle …
: Recent and Upcoming Appearances On March 18, 2023, I offered a presentation at @nerdsummit, Publishing 101: Writing books for fun …
: Stories Published, Written, and In-the-Works J. Scott Coatsworth asked folks at QueerSciFi how many stories they’d written versus how many …
: Revin’s Heart Inexorably Advances On March 24, 2023, Then They Fight You is being released by Water Dragon Publishing. This is Part …
: Full Member of the Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers Association Today, I became a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Almost a year …
: Cover Reveal: Then They Fight You Front Cover of Then They Fight You When even the King’s mandate isn’t enough to bring the warring …
: There stands a woman… Alisa V. Brewer, generously wearing the “fascinator” I got her at WorldCon. Thirty-nine …
: Coming Soon Although it was bitterly disappointing to not be able to attend Boskone, I was pleased to see that …
: Hospitalized In mid-February, I needed to be rushed to the emergency room and spent 12 days in the hospital. It’s …
: Computer Glasses I’m been myopic and needed glasses since I was in middle school. Around the time, I turned 40, I …
: Short Fiction and Water Dragon Publishing When Charlie Jane Anders wrote about short fiction it resonated with me because this is exactly what …
: Boskone 60 Appearance Only a month after Arisia, I will be returning to Boston to appear at Boskone where I will be …
: Arisia 2023 Wrap-up I attended the Arisia science fiction convention in Boston for the first time. I signed up to be a …
: Arisia 2023 Woohoo! I will be attending Arisia 2023 in Boston January 13-16, 2023. I will be moderating one …
: Year in Writing: 2022 I had a fantastic year writing and realized a number of important things. I aimed at writing longer …
: The End of His Rope and Insight into Revin’s Heart from The End of His Rope When I first wrote The Third Time’s the Charm, it was more like the first …
: Link Previews Are Evil Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed that most of the software products I use generate …
: Interviewed by Small Publishing in a Big Universe Back in August, I was interviewed for the Small Publishing in a Big Universe Podcast. To be honest, …
: Award Eligibility for 2022 Below are my publications that were (or will be) released in 2022. Brewer, S.D. [in press]. The End …
: Hosting the SFWA Writing Date For years, I was aware of the Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) although the eligibility …
: Cover Reveal: At the End of His Rope The End of His Rope is Part Five of Revin’s Heart and is scheduled to be released by Water …
: Busy Fall It’s been a busy fall for me as a writer. In mid-August, Better Angels came out. And then …
: Cover Reveal: Crossing the Streams Cover for Crossing the Streams, Part Four of Revin’s Heart Crossing the Streams is Part Four …
: “Demons sound kinda #antisocial,” Rory said. “Heh. Demons have no society,” …
: Why did newsletters became the default way for people to stay in touch, rather than a feed reader. …
: My Worldcon Debut Wrigley and Equitable Buildings from Chicago’s Riverwalk Attending conferences and conventions …
: Airship Pirate Ribbons When I drew up plans to attend Chicon8 the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, my …