Back of the Envelope

I'll admit.  I find most fantasy and science fiction short stories rather predictable.   This is especially a problem with shorter stori...

I've never been in a top ten list before, so I was happy to see that " Her Majesty's Guardian " has appeared in the editor...

There are a lot of hours in a day.  That's something that isn't so obvious when you commute over an hour each way to work, stay ther...

In preparation for the Avengers movie coming out this year, my wife and I have been watching all the "prequels"--the Marvel superh...

While revising my novel these past couple of weeks, I've come to realize just how badly high school English damaged my writing technique...

My iPhone died the other day. When I took it out of my pocket I noticed that it was hot, but when I tried pressing the home button, nothing ...

I honestly thought it had been only a week since my last post, but novel revisions create a time distortion field, and it's really been ...

I expected to have a lot to say about the rest of World Fantasy.  But it can be summed up fairly quickly: I went to panels, I went to partie...

Yesterday was the first day of the World Fantasy Convention .  To be honest, I didn't have too much con stuff to do, but I figured I...

Kristin and I will be going to the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego next week.  If you've seen Kristin's blog , you already kn...

I've read some of the information available on the Kindle Fire, and I've come to the conclusion that the Kindle will live or die by ...

I announced last week that my story, "Her Majesty's Guardian," was out.  That was the e-mail version, which you received if yo...

My s hort story, "Her Majesty's Guardian," is being sent out to Daily Science Fiction 's e-mail list today.  It'll be...

I've been looking over my most recent blog posts, and I'm worried that my blogging skills have atrophied.  Once upon a time I wrote ...

One of the most common questions writers get is "Where do you get your ideas?"  Their most common answer is "I don't know...

Kristin and I went hiking this weekend.  It was an adventure.  By which I mean, Irene and the following storms had left things a mess.  It s...

Daily Science Fiction has announced its stories for September 2011 , and if you look there at the bottom, around September 29th, you'll ...

Hurricane Irene was hyped as a dangerous storm here in New England.  But ultimately, its bark was worse than its bite.  There was a lot of r...

There's a saying that every writer needs to write a million bad words before he writes any good ones.  Like most aphorisms, there's ...

Kristin and I saw Cowboys & Aliens last night.  I had something of a professional interest, as one of my stories had turned into a weir...