April 2010

I had new headshots taken yesterday by Annaliese  Moyer, who is an amazing photographer. She not only makes me look good, she also makes the whole process feel very easy. The interesting thing is that author photos aren’t the same beast as actor headshots. An actor headshot is supposed to simultaneously show the director your […]

Tor.com has a podcast series hosted by Mur Lafferty and this week it’s my story First Flight. Eleanor Louise Jackson stood inside the plain steel box of the time machine. It was about the size of an outhouse, but without a bench or windows. She clutched her cane with one hand and her handbag with

I’ve just come in from a lovely evening with my friend -e- who I don’t spend nearly enough time with. We talked about everything under the sun and a few things beyond in the very pleasant atmosphere of The Secret Society.  During the course of the evening, I’d taken one of the ARCs of Shades

I participate in this week’s Mind Meld at SF Signal along with Steven Brust, Brandon Sanderson and more. My recent and long overdue discovery of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories made me wonder about other good sword and sorcery stories, so this week's panelists were asked: Q: What are some of the best

I’ve been approached twice in the past couple of months about submitting to a non-paying markets which wanted to raise their profile, in return they offered exposure. Here is my reply to one of them. Hi [Nameless editor], I have a lot of sympathy for starting a new magazine. When we started Shimmer, our token

Sam Tomaino gives the March issue of Apex a very nice review. He likes the novelette and the three short stories that I have in that issue. Check out the nice things he says at SFRevu Review.