March 2011

Because I could easily spend the day stressed out today–I have an extraordinary amount of work to do, I’m not getting paid on time, and I don’t have time to take care of the other stuff that’s bothering me–I’m just going to put up my “Zen of the day” quote and hope for the best. […]

I think I’ve told everyone already, but I wanted to memorialize this on my blog, too, so I can come back to it on bad days. My short story at Three-Lobed Burning Eye, “The End of the World,” was an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume 3. I went completely

I’ve had people ask for a summary of the presentation.  We had a video camera and mikes up; if everything goes well, there should be a recording available via Pikes Peak Writers. The presenters were Angel Smits and Karen Fox.  I wished Karen had used more examples in her part of the presentation (endings), especially

An extremely short story inspired by one of Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenges:  write a story about “irregular creatures.”  For some reason, trying to come up with an idea for this stuck in my craw…I tried out all kinds of things over the course of this week.  Yesterday, waiting for my daughter to get out

I try to say something that makes Ray laugh every time I drop her off at school.  I don’t plan these things, I just babble. Today, she said, “Well, mother?” I tried to push her out of the car, but no luck. So I said, “Well, actually, I don’t feel like going anywhere today, so

Okay, this isn’t really a book review.  This is really personal, self-serving blather.  The actual book review is this: Cate Gardner’s collection of short stories makes me incredibly jealous, so jealous, in fact, that I had to put the book down and walk away several times.  It’s as though a modern-day woman had picked up

I have theories.  Some people, they don’t have theories; they just write.  But I have theories. To me, fantasy is psychology. When you decide what a story is about (the theme, if you will), you gather information by reading the story, getting a synopsis of the story, or listening to someone else’s analysis of the

I haven’t been working on a lot of new writing lately, and it’s just killing me, or at least giving me sinus infections. I had a number of things that were all supposed to happen in January/February that haven’t.  They’ve been delayed, I’ve delayed them (in one case, due to a bad idea that I

I found out that I’m mentioned in the March/April 2011 issue of Writer’s Digest. I mean, it’s not a huge deal – they have an article on ghostwriting in there, and the company I wrote Choose Your Doom:  Zombie Apocalypse for, League Entertainment, is in there, and CYD:ZA is mentioned, with myself and Dante Savelli