Category for all my writer-related stuff
It’s that time! Looking back, it was a chaotic year. I worked harder at self-promotion, I had ten stories come out, but my year was really marked by teaching. I taught: Not to mention all the panels I did at conventions! I feel like I was more of a public Read more
Novel Andrei and the Hellcats came out in 2025 and it is therefore eligible for all the 2025 awards! Andrei is a sex robot who loves his job, but then an evil queen kidnaps his sister-robot, and he must set forth armed only with his fashion sense and a space 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
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
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
“You seem to really like writing,” my friend Matt said to me recently. “So many of us, we want to write, but we also hate it.” It surprised me, because he was right. After years of burnout, I made a very conscious decision to re-capture my love of writing and Read more
I despise hand-selling my books. The whole reason I’m not a self-published author is I want someone else to do that. The shame is painful. The embarrassment. I feel exactly how I used to feel when my mom would ask strangers for money. So it was something of a surprise Read more