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A Nightmare 18 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
I seldom have nightmares, and when I do, I mostly enjoy them; they can provide really powerful, strange imagery to use in fiction. But I had a terrible one last night. I was in the park, looking for ...
Big Book Sale 2013 15 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Won’t somebody rid me of these troublesome books? –King Henry II, probably The time has come for my more-or-less annual book sale. I just got another box of author copies, and books are filling up my...
Outsider 12 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
The busier life gets, the less time there is to chronicle my life, so the only time I seem to reliably write about what’s happening to me is when there’s not much happening to me. I’m not going to pre...
Letter to An Aspiring Novelist 21 Jun 2013 | 07:40 pm
I’ve been corresponding a bit with an aspiring novelist who finished his first novel and is likely going to self publish it, after some frustration with trying to find an agent and publisher. He wants...
More Flies with Money 3 Jun 2013 | 11:19 pm
The headline is: my wife and co-editor Heather Shaw and I are hoping to revive our ‘zine Flytrap, this time paying professional rates, and are running a Kickstarter to raise money. We’re 41% funded wi...
Things! Of! Note! 14 May 2013 | 10:10 pm
First, there is now an audiobook of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl available for your listenings! Narrated by Marguerite Croft, and with a great cover by Jenn Reese. Go, download, listen, enjoy....
Synopsisopolis 15 Apr 2013 | 08:34 pm
I used to have the worst time with writing synopses of novels. Part of it was that I had a career as a novelist before I ever really needed to write one. I sold my first book with a complete manuscrip...
Officeboy Dialogue: Smallest Room in the House Edition 20 Mar 2013 | 10:53 pm
Let me give some background: Our house has one (1) bathroom. Our son has an uncanny ability to decide he needs to use the bathroom exactly when one of his parents is already in there, and often hovers...
Kickstarter Wrap-Up and FreemadeSF 11 Mar 2013 | 10:39 pm
Well. That Kickstarter I did went pretty okay, didn’t it? Back in the day, Random House paid me $20K for each of the first four Marla Mason books. So… getting pretty close to that here. (Though not as...
Take It As Read 6 Mar 2013 | 12:17 am
We’re deep into the last day of my Kickstarter for Bride of Death, so if you were thinking of becoming a backer, now is the time. Every time I look at the Kickstarter page I am filled with joy and del...
