I’ve published a longish gest blog over at Sara Hoyt’s page. It’s about the pathological targeting of young debut authors in the Twitterverse. Please go check it out. By now you probably all know the story of Amélie Wen Zhao and her book Blood Heir. She was a new rising Read more…
It has been a while since I’ve done a rant about plagiarism. It’s one of the more corrosive bits of self-destruction writers engage in. It might be envy, or laziness or something deep-seated and broken in the writer’s psyche, but in most cases I’ve heard of, the plagiarist is compulsive Read more…
So a few days ago Slate published an article in what has become a distressingly common subgenre we could call “People are writing SF wrong! Here’s what we must do to fix it!” It seems to have been inspired by an earlier article in Vox about “Hopepunk,” a nascent literary movement whose Read more…
Today is the release date for my genre mash-up novel Marked. (You can now get it on Amazon.) Follow Detective Dana Rohan as she slips into alternate pasts and futures and faces the Shadows living in the Chaos. Publisher’s Weekly called it “… an entertaining, occasionally raucous romp.” And SFRevu Read more…
I’ve written before about the self-destructive urges writers get. Plagiarism needs to be near the top of the list. Penning sexist rants about your greatness to an agent is another. And, of course, there’s always the venerable Internet meltdown. Now we have another example of something authors really shouldn’t do Read more…
Updated my blog as I mentioned in the last post. Now I’m looking at my career while I wait for a couple of editors to respond to my latest projects. Short term I’m looking at possibly another Choice of Games title. Long term I’m investigating joining the ranks of indie Read more…
So, less than a month before the election, a group called “Pantsuit Nation” appeared on Facebook. It was a Mecca for Hillary supporters, who were invited to join the “private” group en masse until, by the time the Washington Post was printing glowing reviews of the pro-Clinton site, it had nearly Read more…
If you follow me at all, you know I’ve been at this for quite a while now. I’ve written about my first novel, Forests of the Night a couple of times now, but in both cases I talk more about the story than how it was published. Back in the Read more…
You may have heard me mention on Facebook that I’m writing a game for the fine folks at Choice of Games based on my Moreau Novels. As I said when I broke the news: If you’re unfamiliar with CoG’s work, think of it as a (much more) sophisticated digital version Read more…
A couple of days ago, Toni Weisskopf posted a link to this letter from Edgar Rice Burroughs to a young Forrest J. Ackerman. It’s a pithy letter, shorter than most blog posts, but is a prescient rebuttal to this hot mess of a Guardian article appearing almost exactly 84 years Read more…