If Douglas Adams were alive today, he would have been sixty years old. When he passed, he was only 49. I never met him, but The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has delighted me over and over and over again for many years. It’s impossible to encapsulate why I’ll gladly cart a towel around on […]
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Too Much Plot
I was in a pretty foul mood yesterday in part because I figured out what’s wrong with Argentum, the novel I’m working on. It’s too complicated. Seriously. The layers of mystery, symbolism, characterization, and setting caused this first book to read like a Dickens novel on steroids. It is five books crammed into one and […]
Woman, thy Name is Divided
I wish I could bring myself to write pages and pages about how I feel about the current assault on women’s reproductive rights and sexuality, and the bullying tactics used the world over to shock-and-awe us, but I just can’t. So instead, I will try to simplify how I feel by saying: Picture a woman. […]
Metallica and Lord of the Rings
There are certain bands that are comfort food to my ears. Metallica happens to be one of them. Now, I like a lot of different kinds of music, but I have a *ton* of respect for any band who can do what they do acoustically without all the bells and whistles, the smoke and the […]
The Zombie Feed Nominated for a Dead Letter Award!
Woke up to a nice surprise this morning! The Zombie Feed Volume 1 was nominated for Mail Order Zombie‘s Dead Letter Award! This collection of zombie stories features several forays into the zombie genre and includes my story “Tomorrow’s Precious Lambs,” which I read last year at OddCon in Madison, Wisconsin. If you like the […]