Hey fans, friends, readers and wild things, I’m not in any of the programming for WisCon this year, for the simple reason that I’ve been doing other stuff: Working on health issues, focusing on language learning, food sovereignty, climate change, and raising the Brave Cub. The panels and readings for this year look fabulous, with […]
Niamh, Who Knew How To Make Fire
Niamh, she made fire, and she knew how to love. She carried with her a horn with a single coal in it, and when she stopped, she’d make a fire, and cook in a small copper pot the things her cousins of the earth had given her on the way that day: a gleaning 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 a.m...
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 manuscript
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 […]
Demon Catchers optioned for film!
I’ve already announced this all over FB and Tweeted it and all, but what a week for blogging or not finding time to…Anyway, my first published novel, The Demon Catchers of Milan, has been optioned for film.I’ve already announced this all over FB and Tweeted it and all, but what a week for blogging or […]
So that happened…
What a year already! It’s been a good one for me in many personal ways, but I do have important news for my readers. Egmont USA, the publisher of my books The Demon Catchers of Milan and The Halcyon Bird, closed its doors on January 31. They originally said they would keep my books in […]