Authorial Foreshadowing

Writers are, in the course of their tutelage, exhorted to show their story, not tell it. As you read this, however, you are about to learn why it’s sometimes appropriate to break this rule. See what I did there? I gave you some insight about what’s to...

Implausible story

As other writers have mentioned to me, sometimes life manifests situations so improbable that, if you were to write them into a story, no reader would accept them as plausible. And yet… I walked through the dealer room at Reno’s WorldCon, showing my...

The Long path to SFWA

As mentioned earlier, I began my writing career back just shy of my 40th birthday, and one of the earliest things I did was reach out to one of my heroes, Gardner Dozois. If you don’t know Gardner, he’s won fifteen Hugo Awards for Best Editor, short...

Oscar Night!

Watched the Oscars tonight in the company of friends and friends of friends, down in Castle Rock, a municipality just south of Denver proper. Great food, great company. Wrapped up Animeland Wasabi (http://animelandwasabi.com/) with my local Denver coterie of writers....

Busy day today at Animeland Wasabi convention

So I’m at a con today, busy with FOUR panels, but I wanted to stop by quickly and hand you (until May 1st) a FREE story that is currently online in the March issue of GALAXY’S EDGE magazine: http://galaxysedge.com/n6.htm Enjoy! And if you want to, stop by...