Short Fiction
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Just released last night; Crossed Genres volume 28 – Superheroes issue, including my Gato Loco story “Hard Ride to Yuma.” Inspired by Arizona’s recent immigration laws, it gave me the chance to do a little side story with one of my favorite characters. It also marks a different breakthrough — this is the first Cobalt
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It seems like only yesterday that the Wily Writers website went live, seducing the internet with speculative fiction audio podcasts. My story “Ink Calls to Ink,” about the Steadfast Tin Soldier, Goldilocks, and the Three Bears on the streets of an alternative modern London was one of the first stories posted. It ended up inspiring
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It’s rare for me to come to an author having read his writing about writing but not his actual fiction work. But that was the case with Chuck Wendig. This compact collection Irregular Creatures is like a heart-shaped box full of mysterious chocolate delights. And like that chocolate box, not every story is going to
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The life of a writer/small-publisher. Not exactly like that of James Bond. Although this past week did see some parallels: Collaborating with co-conspirators (coffee and donuts on Tuesday with fellow authors including Rosemary Jones and Erik Scott de Bie) Sharing tales with a “Handler” and assistant (sushi and cocktails on Wednesday with editor-extreme Jennifer Brozek
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There is a print market which I quiet enjoy that I dearly want to get a story submitted for this month. The focus of what they’re looking for is pretty dang narrow, which is usually good for me. The deadline is coming up at the end of the month, and I’ve known about this since,
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There are so many awesome conventions I’d love to go to this year. World Con in San Diego (Neil freaking Gaiman, people!), or Renovation in Reno, or World Horror Con (Joe Hill and one of my influences Joe Lansdale). But I won’t be going to those. Not unless some kind of miracle happens. As a
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There are a couple of different levels of editing that my fiction usually goes through. The easiest, hence my favorite kind is the light, surface edits of fixing a few tenses, some grammar, and a few typos. Maybe I’ll have to reword a sentence, or split a mouthful into two sentences. But mostly it’s an
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I’m a world builder. Maybe it’s the years of being a RPG Game-Master (or DM or Storyteller depending on your system). Making a world real enough for the characters in games to interact with has lent itself to doing the same for my fiction worlds. Sometimes the world is built in big sections before the
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2010 was the Year of Anthologies. Most of my time was spent writing for anthologies, and it was certainly rewarding. Many of them came out this year (Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, Rigor Amortis, Cobalt City Timeslip, and Cthulhurotica) while a few more are coming out next year (Rock is Dead, Night Mantled: Best
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After a week of family, having just my son crashing with me while he looks for a new apartment is strangely quiet. Especially since he knows people up here now and goes to hang out with them from time to time. That leaves me all amped up to finish up my writing projects for 2010,
Tales from the Ragged Edge 