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The four best books I read this year
These were my favorite reads this year. Give them a try! (These books are recently published, but not during 2021.) ECHO IN ONYX. This...
Dec 17, 2021


Grounding the strange
I’m having a fascinating time moving into the world of the fantasy novel. How lucky we are in SF/F to have such a diverse genre to play...
Jun 3, 2013


Fantasies as re-imagined history
Right now on Black Gate magazine: Mucking with the Mundane, my take on fantasies set in alternate historical periods. How do authors get...
May 23, 2013


The lovely deep of the fantastic
Cover of a recent favorite fantasy book, N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. When people ask me why I write science fiction and...
Feb 25, 2013


Help pick my new cover art
I’m very excited to announce that I have a new novel coming out. This is a project I’ve been working on for several years. It’s an epic...
Jan 31, 2013
Nonfiction Inspires Fiction
It’s all cannon fodder. Everything you do, are, and think about goes into your fiction. Why? First of all, you can’t help it. You are...
May 12, 2010
Opt Out Or Fight Back?
I don’t often rant, but here’s one that gets to me: When self-appointed cultural caretakers continue this simplistic and tedious snobbery...
Apr 16, 2007
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