Three and a half years after the beginning of the pandemic, I finally caught Covid for the first time. It was pretty rough! The fever completely sapped my strength, I had a grouchy and persistent stomach pain anytime I ate anything, and I was chilly and achy for five days. But my absolute least favorite […]
Read More What i’ve been writing and reading: September 2023Hello! I’m excited to let you know that the comic with my short story “The Demon in the Pines,” illustrated by the incredible Peter Krause, will be published this November, in the third issue of the Project: Cryptid miniseries. Here’s the solicitation copy from my beloved publishers at AHOY Comics: PROJECT CRYPTID #3 (OF 6) (MR)SEP231347 Bryce Ingman, […]
Read More What i’ve been reading and writing: August 2023If you’re in Seattle, I hope you’ll join me at the Elliott Bay Book Company on Tuesday, August 29th at 7 pm. I’ll be interviewing author Garth Stein and artist Matthew Southworth to celebrate the release of the second volume of their Seattle-set sci-fi series The Cloven. The first Cloven was a delight—a throwback to the inventive weirdness of […]
Read More What i’ve been reading and writing: July 2023Howdy, Earlier this month, Apple unveiled their Vision Pro headset, ending years of wild speculation about Apple’s strategy for virtual/augmented reality. I haven’t had access to the headset, but I have read just about every review written by tech journalists who have. Most of the reviews rave about the fact that Apple has gone to […]
Read More What i’ve been reading and writing: June 2023Hi there! In the last post, I wrote about my fears that AI would replace a lot of writers relatively quickly. Within a week of sending that email, I heard from two different readers of this very newsletter who had, in fact, recently been laid off from their writing gigs and (in one case, presumably) […]
Read More What I’ve been writing and reading: May 2023Just about every writer I know has lost their mind over ChatGPT and other AI language models this year. And for good reason! AI has become very good at producing passable text almost instantaneously, and it’s practically free. Now that Amazon has gotten into the generative AI language model game, I think the entire field of […]
Read More What i’ve been writing and reading: April 2023Last weekend, I suffered a catastrophic collision with a box of Girl Scout cookies that left me awake in the middle of the night suffering from what I believe a medical professional would diagnose as “a widdle bit of an upset tummy.” Lying there in the throes of a low-level pain of my own creation, […]
Read More What i’ve been reading and writing: March 2023Next week, the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference is happening in Seattle. There will be a ton of panels, parties, and readings, and much of the evening programming is free and open to the public in venues around the city. I’m participating in a couple of AWP events this year—one at […]
Read More What i’ve been reading and writing: February 2023Just one month in, and 2023 already feels more action-packed than 2022. I attended a big birthday party and a literary happy hour—each of which would have been a highlight of any of any month last year. Perhaps most startlingly, I started 2023 off with a last-minute day-job business trip to the east coast, and […]
Read More What i’ve been reading and writing: January 2023In my memory, 2020 and 2021 have merged into one hazy blur—a pandemic, chaos in the world, and lots of quiet nights at home. The holidays have all blurred together, too—2021 Christmas is indistinguishable from 2020 Christmas, I have to think hard to separate my memories of 2021 Halloween from 2020 Halloween, and so on. […]
Read More What I’ve been reading and writing: December 2022
Paul Constant 