Print Version: via CreateSpace Print Version: via Amazon Smashwords: Multiple formats Amazon: Kindle Kobo: Multiple Formats Google Play: Epub We know two things today. First, Ed Carpenter is on the pole for the Indianapolis 500. But more important, we know Four Days in May, The Greatest Spectacle in Science Fiction, is now available at […]
Read More ...Linda Nagata’s “Codename: Delphi”
I had a long car ride earlier this week, and used part of it to listen to Linda Nagata’s short story Codename:Delphi. It’s military science fiction, that (if you squint a little) really may not be science fiction at all. I’m thinking about this story right now because I recently was reading a really strange […]
Read More ...A Few of My Favorite Things
If you’re like most people, you probably have a favorite number. Assuming you do, you probably have a perfectly logical reason for it even if that reason is crazy as all get out. Mine is 13. I think it started because my dad said he liked the number. I’ve always been influenced by him in […]
Read More ...Dictation
A few months ago I talked to Kevin Anderson about his use of dictation to help him write. He’s well-known for this technique, and is rumored to plot whole novels out while he hikes the Rockies. I want to stay active, and had plans (yeah, right) to do a lot of walking in the afternoons, […]
Read More ...Two bits of good news!
I suppose I’m a couple days late in posting this here, but I’ve had a couple nice things happen that I suppose I should put here as a consolidation for those who don’t follow every bit of my online social presence (and WHY NOT?). First, I’m quite pleased to report that StarShipSofa has turned my […]
Read More ...J.C. Andrijeski’s Rook
So, yeah, one of the great things about our week off (back so long ago, now), was that I had some time to actually read. I got through a couple novels, and a couple novellas in that short span. I wanted to talk a little about one of the novels here, because if you have […]
Read More ...Lisa on Costa Maya
So Lisa and I did go to the Caribbean to celebrate our anniversary this year, and, as can be expected, it had some fantastic moments. We did Jamaica and Mexico this time, and I figured I would take a moment here and post one of my favorite sequences of pictures of my beloved that came […]
Read More ...Knowing what it’s about
I’ve been working on this silly Episode 8 of my fantasy novella series for about a decade. At least it seems that way. I’ve essentially “finished” it twice, but each time I’ve just not liked it. You know what I mean, right? It was all there, but it didn’t seem to buzz. So each time […]
Read More ...News, cruise, and a tough goodbye
Whew. What a couple weeks. Publishing News! Let me start today by getting a couple “businessy” things noted. First, I’ve seen some reaction starting to roll in regarding my story “Survivors,” which is in the June issue of Analog, and it’s all been pretty nice. Two separate reviewers (Harlen Bayha & Clancy Weeks) at Tangent […]
Read More ...“Surviviors” published in Analog
I’m pleased to note that my short story “Survivors” is in this month’s issue of Analog magazine. It’s a fun story to me because it came about as the result of a challenge that Lisa Silverthorne and I did in the day before a writer’s workshop last year. It also starts with a set of […]
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