writing
Haunted Houses
Sometimes the world is stranger than you know. Stranger than you can know. What do you do when you emerge into a place you cannot explain and must fight to understand? When there are no answers, but only more questions? When everyone you have known is dead? You keep walking. This sounds a lot like […]
Worth Flowers
I used to buy myself flowers. Just a small bouquet of supermarket carnations, because I find them ruffly and pretty and they come in a billion different colors. It's pleasant to have a bouquet of such on my desk or by my bed in a pretty vase -- usually an old ink well, or a […]
Describing Ladies, a la Bradbury
It's no secret I love the stories of Ray Bradbury. I haven't read everything he's written and now that he's passed, I'm glad for that, because it means if I pace myself, I have a lot more Bradbury fiction to come. I'm in the middle of Death is a Lonely Business at present and it […]
Reviews, Giveaways, the Sky on Fire
In high school, I took a wilderness survival course. I don't remember what in the world made me sign up for it - I am genuinely at a loss when I think back, because me, in the wilderness? There are no cases where this would be A Happening. And yet, it was! The course turned […]
The Story Brain
I have never been a writer who must write every day — however, it’s very unusual for me to not write a little something; my brain enjoys days “off” where I “only” research or plot or ponder. Still, not writing fiction for a solid two weeks is highly unusual for me – though I recently […]
Book Day!
As writers, we aren’t supposed to be at a loss for words. It’s not writer’s block, it’s just a void, where there’s a low humming and a smile and a softly glowing book cover. Rings of Anubis: Gold & Glass is officially out today! You can find it on Amazon, and B&N, and it will […]
The Dust of Egypt
“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... its perfume, its incense, it's the dust of Egypt...” -- Ray Bradbury July brings the publication of my first novel, Rings of Anubis: Gold & Glass. As we approach that magical day, come with me on a tour […]