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Okay, some of them probably weren't all that rich. Always loved this graphic, which was created using data from the book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey. No idea why I'm thinking about it now as I toil feverishly away on a project at midnight, knowing full well that I have to rouse myself and enact a performative pantomime of work tomorrow morning. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

A completely normal couple enjoy a drink in one of the ads within the Strangers' Gate ad. One of the really fun things about writing speculative fiction is gaming out exactly what you think might happen to a particular idea or technology in the distant (or not-so-distant) future. For Strangers' Gate, the near-future aspect of the narrative made this even more challenging, as there are things happening right now that appear monumentally consequential, but could very easily see

To say that I have complicated feelings about the Fourth of July this year would be an astronomical understatement. When I first started writing Strangers' Gate two years ago, Joe Biden was president and had yet to drop out of the presidential race to endorse Kamala Harris as his successor. My intention at that point was to write a breezy, slightly outrageous potboiler set in a future version of America that would make Sean Hannity wail with despair. A welcoming, multi-cultu