Some of my most successful stories have been the easiest to write. “Butterflies on Barbed Wire” was practically a single draft and sold to like the third market I sent it to. Why? Well, it plays to my strengths – Read more
A friend of mine was reminiscing about travel. “We didn’t travel much as a family, growing up,” he said. “We went once to California, once to Washington, once to Florida…” DUDE, I thought, you travelled a LOT. That’s three once-in-a-lifetime Read more
November is National Novel Writing Month. In case you are fortunate enough not to have heard of this phenomenon basically it is a pledge to finally sit down and write that novel you were always going to, all in one Read more
So I decided to enter the IF Comp (The Interactive Fiction Competition) again this year, having tried it last year and come in next-to-last place – I got outvoted by unfinished games! This time I started late, more or less Read more
Hey guys. Guess what, it’s Awards Season for us Science Fiction Writers and so a lot of people will be writing these here “Award Eligibility” posts where they list and link their stories that are eligible for professional awards – Read more
Mild spoilers for two movies and Steven Universe below. This week I saw two movies that dealt with childhood bullying. One was Naoko Yamada’s A Silent Voice and the other was J. A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls. Both show middle-grade Read more
I’ve written before about how genre is a set of expectations. Those expectations can be set for the reader when they see the author’s name, or when they enter a certain section of the bookstore, or see the cover art. Read more