NBC Radio House of Mystery Interview
Tonight my interview with Alan R. Warren and David North-Martino airs at 9:00 PM. If you remember, Al is the guy who called me out for a comment I made here regarding interviewers not reading books, blogs, etc., before they do an interview and are therefore stuck with “standard” questions. Not so with these two….Read More
Sci Fi Saturday Night
It’s Sunday morning, that means that my interview with Sci Fi Saturday Night is now live on their site. It was a wide-ranging and fun conversation with The Dome and Captain Cam. We talked about music, martial arts, writing, Dreamforge magazine, and, of course, SPARK. I was surprised at how quickly the time passed. They…Read More
Book Review: The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester published this book in 1956. Let that sink in a bit. It’s over 65 years old. It would have long since retired were it a human. Happily, it’s a book. The copyright has been renewed a few times and Neil Gaiman wrote an introduction in the version I read. That’s impressive given Gaiman’s…Read More
Shooting it raw
A few weeks ago, my publicist, the amazing Mickey Mickelson, set me up for a podcast called Shooting it Raw, with host, Ran Elfassy. I was a little hesitant. Ran’s based in Hong Kong – quite literally the other side of our planet. The concept intrigued me: no canned questions, no script, I just sent…Read More
Called Out!
A few days ago, I introduced my new interview series, “Ten questions with….” That post was about my interview with Joseph D. Newcomer and generated a lot of response. Recently, I’ve begun pushing blog notices out through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. That has also generated some response. I introduced the series by saying this: “I’ve…Read More
Article for Factually Fictional
Here’s the post I did for Reader’s Entertainment with some bonus content: Two hundred years. That’s how long we’ve known that some materials generate an electrical charge when exposed to light. That’s solar power. But how do we turn that electrical charge into a usable form of energy for things like reading this blog? I…Read More
My guest blog for Reader’s Entertainment
Is now live! You can see it here: Fictionally Factual I’ll post an expanded version of it here in a couple of days.
Submitted!
Late last night, I clicked “send” on the manuscript for Book 2 in the SPARK series: Fire. It’s now in the publisher’s inbox waiting to be assigned to one of the two developmental editors Inklings has hired recently. I have mixed feelings about it. I was so confident about the first book, that I was…Read More
Promise the story you are going to end
I recently finished Orson Scott Card’s Mithermage series – good stuff. At the back of Book 2, The Gate Thief, he writes an afterward (always read the epilogues and afterwards) explaining why the book was six months late. It wasn’t that he was busy binging Battlestar Gallactica, it was that he got the structure of…Read More
Final Meet the Pod: DreadBot and Myranda
DreadBot – Dread to her Pod companions – was born and grew to a teenager in SCAZ. I can’t say “raised” because there was very little thought given to her beyond keeping her clean and fed. She was loved, but after watching enough TV, realized that there might be a better world available to her….Read More