This week, Lisa and I moved to Las Vegas. That’s not a sentence I had expected to type some years back, but it seems like the obvious move today. It’s complicated, of course, but the simple way of putting it is that we like the southwestern climate overall and we wanted to be in a […]

Rather than focusing on the events of the world, I’ve been consciously trying to keep my eye on my work and my life here for a bit. This is mostly for my general sanity. But today has been a bit difficult on that front, so we get what we get. Bottom line: Roe vs. Wade […]

I like to spend my lunch hours learning new things. I tend to do this by semi-randomly finding videos on topics I wouldn’t normally take in, and just seeing what they have to say. A few days back I stumbled upon an hour and a half long video of a talk made by linguist Lera […]

Last month I went to Las Vegas to take in the 2022 Licensing Expo. It was definitely a good learning experience, and (while burying the lede I suppose) since I’ll likely be living there next year, I certainly plan to attend again. I went with no real expectations other than it was going to be […]

Comic From: http://www.basicinstructions.net/ A couple days ago, an acquaintance asked me what I was reading. They know I’m a Skiffy kinda writer, so I wasn’t afraid to say. “First, a whacked-out short story collection by Robert Jeschonek—which is really good if you like wild, whacked-out stories—and a pre-published novel by Michael Warren Lucas that’s about […]

This latest news that LaMDA (an AI) is sentient is just too juicy for a SF writer to stand aside for. I mean. The idea has a long, long tradition in the world of speculation. I’ve written my own bits about it, and in fact have something of that ilk coming out in an upcoming […]

Available in Print or EBook! Available at $.99 For a Limited Time Only! It’s that time again! I’m really pleased to note that the third and final volume of my Collins Creek collections has now been published. This is a project I’ve been planning for some time, and to see it come to fruition is […]

Available in Print or EBook! Available at $.99 For a Limited Time Only! If you’ve been following this little nook of the web, you know I’ve been working on a special project of the heart that I’m calling Collins Creek, and consists of three volumes of stories that all have ties to the Fiction River […]

So a bit back I dropped a note to say I was embarking into the great unknown of a Double Dare—writing two books in one month. Or at least two full first drafts in a month. (Aside: one of the things I like best about being a writer is that, in general, you don’t have […]

It’s a bit of a sad day around the Typosphere. My favorite sleeping shirt has, alas, seen its last sleep. The shirt in question is a standard white T-shirt with a cartoonish image of cats done in cubist style. I want to say Lisa got it for me at an art fair or something, but […]