I know for some writers it is the very worst part of the job. I mean, we are fiction writers, right? We make stuff up for a living. That is just what we do! Right? Well, yes and no. As any well-versed reader will tell you, reality in their fiction is the spice that brings it all to life for [...]

So, I’m working on a new short story to submit to an upcoming anthology.  It has a particular theme, one I think is pretty intriguing, but it involves a bit of research on my part.  No big deal, I’m always down for that, I just hate that my own science background is so shaky.  While I wait for a buddy [...]

Writing a short story isn’t all that hard.  Writing a good short story is.  Writing a whole collection of good ones is damn near impossible.  Other authors understand this, and would probably agree with my estimate that for every published piece of quality short fiction, a writer has another ten that just aren’t worthy of public eyes. People a lot [...]

Here we go again… Around eight or nine years ago we had one of those personal assessment / strength finding exercises at work, one that began with the question, “By what name do you like to be called?” Being the corporate world, most people answered with their own name or a nickname. Being me, I honestly said (and this was [...]

I’m spending a lot of my time writing Valence Of Infinity these days. But you know what? It’s the most fun I’ve had writing in years. Don’t get me wrong, I really love the world of The Progeny, and I think it shows in the first novel in that series. Still, that is a YA story, with certain limitations. With [...]