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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If I could offer one word of advice to new writers…I wouldn’t be able to pick. But this would probably be in the top ten: stay fit. No, really. Get fit and stay there. And not just your typing fingers, fellow monkeys. I am not suggesting you go to the gym, unless you love the […]
I am finally back to being a responsible little writer and posting flash fiction on the full moon. This old Cabal favorite is posted in honor of Linda Holiday Sensei of Aikido of Santa Cruz, who visited Aikido of Madison this weekend. Thank you. The Diplomat and I had walked so long through silent forests […]
I don’t think about this question very often because I’ve been an artist so long now that I equate “Why make art?” with “Why breathe?” In fact, I don’t think about this question at all. But I was listening to the news for the first time in months—I’ve been on a news blackout basically since […]
I had to move back in with my mom for a time, during one of those periods that occur in a young artist’s life. We both wanted to paint every day (I was a painter back then). We kept getting caught up in other things, like laundry, doctor’s appointments, and so forth. We realized something […]
Tonight there’s a lunar eclipse. I think we’d be able to see it round here if it weren’t cloudy. I’ve been thinking about this short in connection with eclipses and other events that inspire human beings with superstition. I like this story because it’s both dark and light. It was the old, old story, he […]
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Neitzche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! —The opening sentence of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being I am 121 pages into The Unbearable Lightness […]
