I’m reading and paneling at WisCon 41! The Smokey Wizard Bacon Files Friday, 9-10:15 pm, Conference 2, with David Engelstad, C. L. Ford, and David Gallay. These are the folks from my writing group, the people who made my good books way better. David Engelstad is celebration the publication of his new bookA Call of [...]
WisCon 41 reading and panel!
I’m reading and paneling at WisCon 41! The Smokey Wizard Bacon Files Friday, 9-10:15 pm, Conference 2, with David Engelstad, C. L. Ford, and David Gallay. These are the folks from my writing group, the people who made my good books way better. David Engelstad is celebration the publication of his new bookA Call of [...]
…Back
Howdy there, dear reader, all one of you! I’m back, and plan to begin posting pretty regularly, as I’m working on Book 3 of the Demon Catchers series, and getting involved in climate action, food sovereignty, and Native issues. I’m thinking a lot about prejudice, food, survival, my European immigrant culture, colonization, and how to [...]
WisCon recap
Well, it’s been a few weeks since WisCon, but I’d like to do a very brief recap. If you’re a science fiction or fantasy writer and you’ve never been, I cannot recommend WisCon enough. I should warn you, as I’ve warned readers before, that it may take you out of your comfort zone big time. [...]
WisCon reading Saturday May 23 at 10 ...
If you happen to be sensible enough to be living in Madison or coming to WisCon this weekend, you can hear me read from the opening chapter of the third book in my Demon Catchers of Milan series. I’ll be reading with three other fantastic writers, Kim Long-Ewing, Marguerite Reed, and Stacy Theiszen, on Saturday [...]
The Three Uses of Fame
I’ve done some thinking about fame over the years. I came of age in the late 1980’s, in a part of the world and a youth culture where fame mattered a great deal, along with money and external beauty—a toxic triumvirate for a sixteen-year-old with absolutely no work ethic, to say the least. Thankfully, I [...]
Why I can’t read your manuscrip...
I periodically get requests from folks about reading their work and critiquing it or referring them to my agent on the strength of it. Better clear this one up ASAP. I’m going to be blunt, because that’s most helpful here, not because I don’t want to help people become writers, because I blog a lot [...]
