What i’ve been reading and writing: October 2023

Hi! First of all, thanks so much to those of you who sent sympathetic get-well-soon notes after last issue’s account of my first bout with Covid. You were so generous with your good wishes that I retroactively feel as though I somehow overplayed my sickness, but it was much appreciated at a time when I […]

What i’ve been writing and reading: September 2023

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 […]

What i’ve been reading and writing: August 2023

Hello! 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, […]

What i’ve been reading and writing: July 2023

If 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 […]

What i’ve been reading and writing: June 2023

Howdy, 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 […]

What I’ve been writing and reading: May 2023

Hi 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) […]

What i’ve been writing and reading: April 2023

Just 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 […]

What i’ve been reading and writing: March 2023

Last 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, […]

What i’ve been reading and writing: February 2023

Next 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 […]

What i’ve been reading and writing: January 2023

Just 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 […]