So, I’m nearing the end of my experiment with Steve Gaskell. We’re writing a novella together, tentatively named “Skimming the Sun.” It was planned as a short story, perhaps a novelette, but it’s grown. We decided not to put any artificial constraints on it, and as it grew, we just let it — no conscious [...]
My wife has had a jewelry shop on Etsy for a while now. It’s called Relly Rose Designs. She’s been going to art fairs as well, and expanding her jewelry making skills. She shoots for a shabby-chic, urban kind of design, and I think the results are fantastic. I like a lot of her things, [...]
I have a bit of time at the end of the day to either watch a movie (or a part of a movie) or read. I’ve been sort of alternating back and forth for a while, and I recently watched the Lord of the Rings movies over the course of about two weeks. It was [...]
Some of you know that I like to cook. What most of you won’t know is that I’ve harbored a secret desire to run a restaurant. I’ve resisted the idea because of my nature — sometimes I just don’t like to deal with people. But, as I get older, I yearn to do something different [...]
I’ve been really curious to see the new Fox series from Joss Whedon, Dollhouse, for quite some time. It seemed like a great concept and I’ve been a fan of Whedon’s stuff for a while. I never did get into Buffy, the series, but I did like the original movie quite a bit. I didn’t [...]
You tell me…
Last year, I joined the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. I made it past two rounds, as I recall, but didn’t make the quarterfinals. It was a good experience, though I’ll admit I got too wrapped up in trying to get people to review the thing. My belief is that user reviews made very little difference [...]
A while back I got hooked up with Catalyst Game Labs, who bought Shadowrun (though I don’t know all the details of that purchase). They’re coming out an anthology of fiction called Spells & Chrome, set in the Shadowrun universe, and I got tagged to write one of them. The story I wrote ended up [...]
Rich Horton is a prolific reviewer of speculative fiction. He keeps a blog, and at the end of the year, he posts summaries of the short fiction markets that he’s read. Well, he tagged my story, "Cirque du Lumiere" from the Fellowship Fantastic DAW anthology for special mention. I highly respect Rich’s views, and so [...]
I heard only last night that Realms of Fantasy will soon be defunct. I’m really bummed by this news. For years Realms has been at the top of my list for places I want to break into. The finished product looked great, and the fiction they published was what I liked to read and write. [...]
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