The Book Woke Up
I’m not sure how I fit so many good writing sessions in around all the family stuff in July. Swim team, the summer show for
I’m not sure how I fit so many good writing sessions in around all the family stuff in July. Swim team, the summer show for
Picture a Big Fat Fantasy novel, which went by the initials BFF in the publishing industry for years before BFF became Best Friends Forever. Your
Here’s a classic piece of creative writing advice: First read all of Faulkner, the king of long sentences, to learn how to write to extremes;
Once upon a time, when refrigeration was a newfangled city thing, a company that cut ice from Adirondack lakes and sent it by train to
During the first pandemic year, before the vaccines, I missed my family’s annual reunion for the first time since 1988. The second pandemic year, when
I used to review series fantasy for Black Gate. Publishing houses and publicists would deluge BG’s publisher, John O’Neill, with advance review copies, and he’d drop
That’s the title of the other panel I moderated at Balticon. I overprepare for panel moderation these days. (Probably nobody else remembers the panel I
When I first started working on my current novel, I gave my main character, the irrepressible Whitman Edison Kovacs, this apartment to live in: Whit
For my first-ever patrons-only post, here’s the story of how my current work in progress came to me. At a red light on Veirs Mill
For two of my favorite panels at Balticon, “Fleshing Out Your Cast” and “Writing Believable Children,” I put together a sort of cheat sheet on
Before I even put up my first post, three of you rushed in to subscribe. Welcome, everybody! I’ve just arrived at my college reunion. If
And it’s a good thing I set that up before sending the ebooks out to Kickstarter backers, because Amazon and Ingram are able to test
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