The inspiration for my short stories often comes from going over a list of themed anthologies soliciting material and seeing if any of them spark an idea. Sometimes it's immediate. Sometimes it takes a while. And, of course, once the story is done and submitted there's...
“On Fire,” a collection from Transmundane Press, will be released Dec. 1. Edited by Anthony S. Buoni and Alisha Constanza, it inspired authors to fire their imaginations in 26 inflammatory tales. One of them is my latest offering, “The Burning of Atlanta,” about a movi...
For the past month or so my writing time has been focused on my current novel project. I will likely have a first draft finished in early October and will begin the process of revising and rewriting. It's a project I'm really enjoying working on and I'm hoping to unle...
I have no idea how other people do it. In reading interviews with authors or comparing notes with actual authors I know, there are certainly similarities in general, but we don't get into the specifics. How could we? The process begins with a blank...
How easy book dedications must have been for someone like Isaac Asimov. Author of literally hundreds of books I imagine he could have spared one to leave a note for the milkman to leave an extra quart.
For those of us with far fewer books to our credit, each new arriv...
“You have picked a difficult subject for a biography,” Robert Silverberg advised Nat Segaloff, who was conducting interviews with and about the subject of A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison.
That is true, but it was a match made in heaven. The result i...
Friend and publisher Ian Randal Strock is at a steampunk convention this weekend (selling, among other things, my books) and found this promotional postcard for Ro-Con 3, where I'll be Guest of Honor. This is the first time I've been GoH and this is the first time I've...
