Frances Rowat's Blog

A general note, again, that this site has been sunsetted and you want to go to this link for up-to-date details. With regards to unwanted change: the kitchen sink broke, the dishwasher broke, someone is coming into the house to fix the former, and the default WordPress posting interface has changed. I have no idea … Continue reading "In which both change and the lack thereof are unwanted"

Cheers, all. I wanted to let you know that I’ve moved the site to aphotic-ink.com, and I’ll be updating there in the future. Advertisements

At some point, I’m really going to need to try going back to editing an electronic document. I like writing my edits on hardcopy and typing them up, but when you do that with a seventy-two page document, it results in hand cramps. (I think I’m pretty happy with the end result, though.) Anyway. The … Continue reading "Recuperating"

I’d honestly forgotten about the Hugo nominations until today. My notebook is looking a little sparse; I don’t know if I started forgetting to write things down when they impressed me, or if the end of the year was just so hectic that I fell far, far behind on actually reading and watching new work. … Continue reading "Looking back on things I’ve read"

I had two acceptances this year; one for “Late Night at the Low Road Diner” which is mentioned in my eligibility post, and one for “Ink, and Breath, and Spring” which should be coming out next year. I was also asked to contribute “Interview with Cortesa Singh” to After the War, an SF roleplaying game of mimetic … Continue reading "Counting ink, 2018"

My vacation has officially begun! (And I already have a list of things I’d like to do that would take me approximately three months, so managing expectations is going to be a big thing.) Mostly, though, I’m hoping it will be a pretty quiet two weeks that gives me time to settle in to some … Continue reading "Free fortnight"

It’s that time of year, and I’m really pleased to say that I had two short stories come out in 2018, both free to read online: “Late Night at the Low Road Diner”, available in Liminal Stories. August 2018. 3550 words. A waitress dealing with a boy and a pale thing that come into the … Continue reading "Eligibility in 2018"

Three questions with Cortesa Singh, resistance member of Bradbury Weeps and asteroid belter, survivor of the Oort Line on 2311.04.17, when the Chorister fleet swept towards earth. Interview recorded at the Silton Repository on Dirt. Where were you from? The belt. Parents planned against a kid but the pills didn’t work, and they wouldn’t sign … Continue reading "Interview with Cortesa Singh"

Barrelling on at high speed towards winter, now. Hallowe’en was nice, if quiet; we resorted to putting a jack o’lantern out on the front porch and a small sign asking people to follow the honour system, and then refilling the candy bowl regularly. I’m working on NaNoWriMo, but rather than aiming for thousands of words, … Continue reading "Towards the dark of the year"

First off, you may note that my avatar has changed; it is currently an illustration by Claudia Cangini in the vein of the After The War RPG, which will be debuting on KickStarter in a few weeks–on November 12–at which point I’ll be able to share the story I wrote for it. October was a one-convention, … Continue reading "Someone left the clock running. (It might have been me.)"