My friend Premee posted to twitter about having spent an entire conversation with a fork in her mouth because she didn’t want the person talking to her to know she wasn’t using a spoon to eat her yogurt. It immediately resonated with me because just that afternoon I had walked 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…
I’ve often found myself frustrated that the stories I pick up are always from the point of view of the starship captain and not the person who swabs the decks. Everything seems to be about millionaires and industry leaders, super-stars. Once I asked a writer why he didn’t write more Read more…
I’ve uploaded my slide presentation on the history of Science Fiction in Cleveland for your enjoyment. It was a great presentation, thank you to all the people who came to see it. Here as your reward is the 1955 WorldCon CleVention poster:
Once again, I blog your requests! I was asked how I do my wee illustrations, which is a very flattering thing to be asked when you are Not Very Good at Art. (TM) So I decided the best way to answer that question was to turn on screen capture and Read more…
Shockingly, I have two bookstore appearances scheduled next week, back to back! On Thursday, August 22nd at 7pm I’ll be reading at Mac’s Back’s on Coventry to promote the release of Apex Books’ “Do Not Go Quietly: Tales of Victorious Resistance” anthology. S. Andrew Swann will be there to promote Read more…
I recently re-read an old blog post I did on my rejection statistics for sold stories. I had sold 9 stories at that time (March of 2016) and averaged 10.1 rejections on sold stories, with 22 highest rejections and 4 lowest. How has that changed now that I’ve sold 40 Read more…