I was feeling mildly bitter about how I wasn’t able to advance my writing career before I turned 39. You know the situation: I meet a brilliant new writer; I find out they’re 25; I hate myself, and by extension, I hate capitalism and the decade I spent struggling just Read more
My publicist told me that Instagram was the #1 most important social media. It has the largest user-base, and more importantly, the largest book-buying user-base. Bookstagram all the way. So, I resolved to post more often to Instagram. The first thing I did was tie my Instagram to my Facebook Read more
I have this dream of publishing a Cleveland Science Fiction anthology. To that end, when I was asked if I would be interested in volunteering to edit Parsec Ink’s next Triangulation anthology, I thought, “Free on-the-job-training!” and signed up. I’m officially an editor! At first, I thought I’d stick with Read more
OK! Having finished up the book tour for “Andrei” what feels like five seconds ago, it’s time to start planning events for Multitude, which comes out April, 2026. Genre Talk: Speculative Fiction Authors – Cuyahoga County Public Library. January 24, 2026 2:00 pm – 3:00 pmSouth Euclid – Lyndhurst Branch Library Green Road Read more
Fun fact: the original meaning of “whelm” was to capsize (14th century) or to turn upside-down. By the fifteenth century it was overtaken by the word “overwhelm” to mean the same thing. No doubt started by some alewife saying, “Thou thinkst thy life is whelmed? Mine life is over-whelmed!” I’ve Read more
With all the MFA-earning, Book-promoting, and Day-job-having, I still managed to apply myself to submitting new material for publication, with the usual result of a wealth of data to fuss over instead of writing! Yay! Let’s get to the particulars. Poetry: I submitted individual poems 72 times for 3 acceptances, Read more
My friend Olav Rokne of the Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog paid me an amazing compliment recently. I’m paraphrasing here from memory, but it was something like, “You’re one of the good ones on social media. We noticed how engaging you were long before you were getting published regularly in Read more