Lou Aronica

Writing fiction isn’t like competing in the Olympics in terribly many ways. This is, for the most part, a good thing, as my training...

The very first book I ever edited – David Brin’s Startide Rising – won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. My batting average has plummeted...

Early in my publishing career, I worked with a vaunted science fiction writer, one of the true masters of the field. His books...

Many years ago, I read an article that John Irving wrote for the New York Times Book Review. In it, he defended the novelist’s use of...

I’ve always been suspicious of films that purported to be “based on a true story.” That seems like a huge cheat to me. You get the...

This is another song that came from my "situation drama" approach of considering a circumstance and then imagining how it would play out....

Many of the songs I've been sharing with you come directly out of my life. This isn't one of them. In fact, in some ways, this song...

I remember, sometime after my fortieth birthday, watching a football game and realizing that everyone on the playing field was younger...

A little more than twenty years ago, I started writing songs for my kids' birthdays. This was a way to give them something much more...

I recently had a landmark birthday. Which landmark is not particularly germane to this conversation. For this particular landmark...