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If you’ve ready my other, somewhat irregular Soundtrack for Writing posts (all conveniently located in the Music category on the right), you know the drill. I talk about writing, and how music from the mentioned artist has inspired various stories or writing breakthroughs. That’s not entirely the case with Nirvana. It’s not that I don’t
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It has been mentioned that I’ve been a gamer from way back. Now, I’m not talking console or computer games though I’ve gone through phases with those as well. I’m talking pencil and paper and dice, the way nature intended. In the almost three decades I’ve had only a handful of games that truly set
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I’ve posted about Gil Scott-Heron before. His music was essential in helping shape my world view and how I approached issues of race in my writings. He impacted my “voice” as much as Ellison, Bradbury, Powers, Gaiman, and Landsdale. But music is like that for me. It works for me on a level that writing
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The literary incarnation of the Cobalt City universe began with the single novel, Cobalt City Blues. It’s been in print with three different editions – the first one made primarily printed for a handful of friends several years back. Then it was given a thorough edit and rewrite when I wrote the prequel, Chanson Noir,
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Some people have a terrible fear of clowns. I’ve known a few of them, and I can’t deny that it provokes a strong panic reaction. I don’t understand it. But then again, they don’t understand my fear of ventriloquist dummies. (I mean, really…those little wooden bastards are just WAITING for a chance to kill you
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I have this list. I call it my Personal Creative Schedule 2011. and it tracks things I’m working on as a writer and as a publisher. Items are organized by due date. This list is currently 24 items long. Yes, some items have been checked off, (six, to be specific). But that still leaves a
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It’s not that I don’t write much science fiction. It’s more that I write across a wide swath of genre, so the love is spread pretty randomly. Looking back at the past year, it’s been mostly horror and urban fantasy. The last pure sci-fi story I wrote was “Deacon Carter’s Last Dime,” for Crossed Genres.
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I’m finally feeling recovered enough to do a bit of a download from Norwescon 34. It didn’t sink in until about 5 minutes ago that last year I attended as a pro writer, with my first anthology publication hitting the shelves in Close Encounters of the Urban Kind. This year, I attended not only as
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First off, I just realized that my blog acts like a cold-war dead-letter drop! Since I screen comments, anything someone posts sits invisibly for me to read at my leisure, after which I can just delete it and no one is the wiser. If only I knew how to turn this weird tidbit into a
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So, I have this story. In a way, it’s paranormal romance. In another way it’s…well, I’m not really sure what it is. The first draft which was written about a decade ago varied pretty substantially from the finished draft. Over the years, I kept coming back to it, playing with various aspects of the characters
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Tales from the Ragged Edge 