I finished a short story today. This is a big deal for me because, as you might be able to tell from my lack of presence around her and around some other social sites, I’ve been in a strange period of stalledness. By that I mean I’ve been coming to work every day and getting […]
This is the fourth post of a series I’m doing about the Oregon Coast Anthology Workshop, which is an 8-day immersion into the world of traditionally published short fiction. The first post in the series outlines the event and provides linkage to the entire series of posts. The workshop is intense and multi-faceted, so if […]
This is the third of a series of posts I’m doing about the Oregon Coast Anthology Workshop. The first post noted that my daughter (Brigid Collins) and I are editing Face the Strange, an anthology in the Fiction River series that comes out of the workshop. I may have even mentioned how amazing it’s going […]
As noted earlier, I’m doing a series of posts on the Oregon Coast Anthology Workshop. This is the second of the set. The first post noted that my daughter (Brigid Collins) and I are editing an anthology in the Fiction River series (it’s titled Face the Strange and it’s going to be awesome!). It also […]
I’m happy to note that Gathering Storm Magazine will soon be publishing “Just Say When,” which is a fun little piece that riffs off automation, robots, and all kinds of silliness that might just come about when things go…well…you can read it soon.
For the past couple months I’ve had the pleasure of working as a co-editor of a volume of Fiction River, which is a long-running series of anthologies released by WMG Publishing. After over 25 years of working as a writer, it’s my first foray into that side of the publishing world—and to make it even […]
Dear Kobo, have I ever told you I love you? I’m happy to note today that a whole bunch of my stuff is on special discounts on Kobo for a very short time. I’ll lay them all out here as best as I can. START A NEW SERIES? First, we’ve got the “Start a New […]
Glamour of the God-Touched Available for Pre-Order in Immortals Every now and again in this business you get to have one of those really cool things come along that just make you smile. One of those is happening to me now. It’s all under the umbrella of having Glamour of the God-Touched, the first novella […]
Each day since Christmas, I’ve included seven chocolate covered espresso beans in my morning routine. This is because, as she does most years, Lisa gave me a bag for the holidays and when I have them … well … they’re yummy, you know? Like most people’s brains, mine sometimes does loops around and asks weird […]
Lisa and I went to see The Shape of Water earlier this week. It’s a nice film, intriguingly presented as an early 60s, comic booky, SF, Spy, fairy tale that hits all my buttons just right. It also has a mechanical element that I always find interesting as a person who creates stories—an element that […]