Quite pleased to see that my short story “Companion,” is out and available in this month’s issue of Analog. I hope you’ll find it creepy in a sense. It is Halloween time, after all. All I’ll say, though, is that it’s not your classic trick or treating kind of thing, though trick or treating does […]

I mentioned awhile back that I typed “The End” on Book 9 (and final?) of my Stealing the Sun series. That meant that the first draft was finished, and that I’d sent it on to Beta readers. Since then I’ve gotten it back, made changes I thought made sense and then passed it on to […]

A couple days back I was sitting in my office after a day’s work/play, and realized that I would need something to read that evening. As synchronicity does, I ran across the name DeAnna Knippling. Hmmm … I said to myself. DeAnna’s an interesting writer. Which is true. I’ve read some of her short works, […]

I read this book because my sweetie read it for a book club she went to, and was clearly caught up in it. I say that because Detransition, Baby is not for everyone, but perhaps it should be. It’s a controversial (*) work for both its subject matter (transgender and cis characters dealing with parenthood) […]

I have a guilty pleasure, if not a somewhat silly one. That is, I really enjoy checking my “sales” figures on PubShare. For those unaware, PubShare is a little nook of this (no longer new) world of independent publishing—a place that supports various kinds of fun little projects, including the Boundary Shock Quarterly project I […]

Every now and again, you stumble onto something special. Something you weren’t really looking for, but that once you find it you can’t imagine having gone without. This week I hit on one of those things. A true gem hidden in plain sight. I’m talking about a book titled Duramen Rose which was published by […]

Yes, there’s a great sense of relief rolling through the Collins household this morning because I’m finally seeing the day I’ve been anticipating for some time. My Stealing the Sun series is back in the saddle, passing the final turn and heading into the homestretch (yes, I grew up in Kentucky Derby Land, why do […]

In the past couple weeks my reading has moved in a escapist direction. Lighter things, or fast-moving things that make it easy to just let your mind slide away and enjoy the ride. I’ve spent the past couple days with my friend Lisa Silverthorne’s novel Pacific Blue Tattoo. It’s a Romantic Suspense story that, for […]

A few days back I posted a bit about how I’d been baited and switched on my toothpaste. I am now a bit derelict in my duty on reporting back how that situation turned out. To refresh, one of the stories in my family is how my entire married life was predicated having been lured […]

Now here’s something interesting. Hang with me. This is going somewhere. I did something I don’t usually do. I grabbed a copy of a Book 2 in a series without having read the first book. I did this for a couple reasons. First, I needed something different from what I usually read (whatever that is). […]