circus
The Care & Feeding of Your New Steam Train
So you’ve acquired a steam train! Congratulations! They can be finicky and unpredictable, but this guide should help you with the most critical points of concern. We appreciate your time and attention and should you have any further concerns with your new acquisition, you can forward your questions to the engine, where they’ll fuel the […]
Run Away
In 2005, I sold the first of my circus stories, "Vanishing Act," to SciFiction, edited by Ellen Datlow. It was a dream come true in many ways. It was the most money I'd ever been paid for fiction, and selling to Ellen was absolutely a bucket list item. Now, in 2020, a bundle of circus […]
Old Things
If you are acquainted with my writing, you know I like old things. My stories and novels gravitate toward history -- albeit sometimes history we haven't written down yet. There are two universes I like to play in: one is rooted in ancient Egypt, the other in the timeless fields of carnivals. My new Apex […]
Cloud Dweller
When it comes to my traveling circus, I don't include a lot of "normal" circus tropes. My circus doesn't have an elephant, for example. But there are a few tropes I want to play with, because I think they'll fit well. I also like writing about my home state, so when I realized I was […]
Blow the Moon Out
The woods were not lovely, though I would grant them both dark and deep as we wound our way closer to Philadelphia to see Jackson’s Unreal Circus and Mobile Marmalade. It was the best of all possible worlds: Halloween had come and gone, but the weekend stretched ahead and with it, a chunk of treasured, […]