Caitlin Sweet
Blog Archive
For many years, I had a blog. I posted sporadically at best, initially, then almost never. I don’t intend to have another, here, but wanted to make the archive available. Ursula K. Le Guin, Top Gun, cats…Take a look.
Bedazzled
The Pattern Scars has just been nominated for a Sunburst Award. This particular award is close to my heart. For a couple of years, Lesley Livingston, Adrienne Kress and I lent our bespectacled, sequined charms to the Sunburst auction (photos unavailable, just...
Sound and Fury
The fifth paragraph, which begins "And that's the point", is replete with spoilers. Other than that, though, it's just general diatribe. * I wasn’t expecting to love Prometheus. I’m not a rabid fan of the original movies, and I haven’t been waiting for this one with...
Miss Ingenuous
This happened yesterday. NPR WOW I know no one at NPR. I don't think I know anyone at the National Post, yet one of their columnists called me, also yesterday; someone at the paper had told her that I was great, and exactly the right person to ask about Ray Bradbury's...
Red & Grey
I should be performing at Roy Thomson Hall tonight. I performed there in 1987, when I was 17 and my high school turned 75. I sat in the trombone section alongside alumni who'd graduated decades and decades ago, and we played wonderful, challenging, exhilarating music,...
Labours of Love (or, Sweet & Sour)
The dearest wish of my heart used to be full-time writerdom. This wish persisted from about 1978 to 2006. It was granted (thanks to a second maternity leave, a second book contract, and a supportive first husband) for the last three-plus years of this period. Now? No...
Auroras in the House!
The Pattern Scars has been nominated for another award. I can't win this one if you click a little voting dot every day. No--you can vote only once for this one. And it'll cost you. Here's the link to the nominations:...
Nola is Audible!
There was a Pattern Scars Google alert in my mailbox this morning. Seems the audio book is now available. http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=mp_ja_1_3?asin=B007RYXBSU I listened to the clip while Peter and I and most of the cats were still in bed. It was a little jarring...
And the CBC Bookie for Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction Goes To…
The Pattern Scars. I think. The official announcement won't be made until Thursday, but unless something profoundly untoward happens, I've won. So this is me, bumbling up to a podium and scrabbling around for notes. Even-more-than-characteristically-effusive thank...
CBC Bookie Award Nom!
Yes, the voting criteria are loose at best. No, Margaret Atwood's non-fiction anthology about science fiction probably shouldn't have been included in the "Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction" category. But this is kind of fun anyway. I have no idea who,...
Puddings, Pant Slings, Near Things
I wrote this for the "Facts & Arguments" page of the Globe & Mail. Their submission guidelines say that an editor will get in touch within a month, should they wish to publish a piece. It's been over a month and I've heard nothing—so I figured I'd foist it...