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Something you learn about editing:  checklists are good.  No matter how many times you think you’ve looked at something, unless it’s marked off on your checklist, you probably haven’t looked at it that one last time that it needed to be looked at. I had to get this down quick because someone asked for it, […]

Time to get back into the editing series…a new beginning for a new year.  I want to apologize for heading off in the wrong direction earlier, but it’s a blog: like any conversation, it’s pretty much first draft. I know a lot of writers who are like, “You must never show anyone a less-than-perfect version

Congratulations! Goodreads sent me the winners for the giveaway for Tales Told Under the Covers! The winners are: Ghania Afzaal Yvonne M. Glasgow Aimey Chun And I will be contacting them and sending out their signed copies shortly!  Thank you to everyone who entered!

A short story collection of contemporary fantasy and mundane magic.  At Smashwords, B&N, and Amazon.com, with more sites to come. One of my favorite writers, as a kid, was Zenna Henderson.  I loved The Anything Box.  I never really got into The People as a series, for some reason–but The Anything Box. It was an amazing short story collection,

A few days left…if I read anything else stellar this year, I’ll add it to the list… Five stars, in reverse order of reading: The Non-Designers Design Book, by Robin P. Williams.  In a discipline that values intuition over clear explanation (seems like), a refreshingly blunt books on what’s actually going on. The Best of

I happened to hear about the Best Book Reading Challenge Ever: the TBR pile challenge.  The rules: pick 12 books (or 14, so you can ditch 2 books that you don’t like) that have been on your To Be Read (TBR) pile for over 12 months, and read one a month throughout 2012.  If you

In the world of making food, there are two main divisions: bakers vs. cooks (not that it’s a battle, although that would make a fun fight sequence).  Now, there are some people who are both, but mostly people will tend toward one or the other. I’m a cook. I don’t really like to make cakes

Tad Williams is one of my favorite authors…he and his wife, Deborah Beale (they write the Ordinary Farm kids’ books together) have independently put up an ebook collection (A Stark and Wormy Knight) of short stories and novellas, of which this is one.  Subterranean Press will put out the print edition next summer.  The collection

I’m going to pick on two types of fictional invaders: zombies and aliens.  Zombies seem a lot more popular these days than aliens do, and I have a couple of guesses as to why. Zombies are people who become unpeople. They go from rational, emotional creatures who do not consume your resources to unthinking, unfeeling

I was restless all last week, not knowing what it was I was restless for, which happens to me sometimes. Now, when I get depressed, then I need to change something.  But when I get restless…I need something new.  Why it’s taken me so long to figure this out, I don’t know. What did I