Daily Science Fiction released my story “Metal and Flesh” today. It’s a dark little flash piece I wrote for my very first write-a-thon in 2012. I picked it out of my old drafts folder recently and tweaked it a tiny bit. My initial premise was “uh… like, what if Transformers Read more
My poetry professor gave out an assignment to write five interconnected, longer poems. The goal was that by the end of his course we would all write book-length poems. I was mad in love with the old victorian mansions of University Circle, now serving as office buildings, fraternity houses, and Read more
Here are the stories I have published this year that are eligible for your consideration for the Hugo, Nebula, or Best Author on the East Side Who Doesn’t Have A Mustache, or whatever. (10 short stories and 6 poems. If that’s too much to read through, my favorite one was Read more
At the risk of bragging, this entry is going to be nothing but positive stuff. I had a stupendous year as a writer! Rest assured, I am still 89% sure y’all hate me and I’m never going to be popular. 😉 Short Story Submissions: 193* Short Story Acceptances: 15* Stories Read more
Soliciting for ideas for blog posts, I was asked, “How do you create a writing practice?” and “How do you make writing a habit?” And I thought to myself, “Self, you used to wonder that, and you did it. So, what finally worked?” To that end, I went back to Read more
A friend recently asked me, “I’ve written a short story! Now what? How do I sell it?” There is so much to that question, so many things to learn the hard way. Selling a story is a different process from writing one. Let me see if I can make this Read more
My very first novel, crafted in a yellow folder that held loose-leaf paper on those little metal tabs, was an attempt at autobiography. (There is a certain type of person who feels a need to write their autobiography at eleven, and I was one of them.) Being possessed of a Read more