10 Questions with Mack Little
I met Mack about four years ago through the Houston Writer’s Guild and promptly fell in love with her prose. I’ve reviewed her Daughter of Hades book on this blog. We both worked at Inkling Publishing’s table during Comicpalooza last year and I witnessed something I never expected. A young woman, I’m guessing 23, came…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
10 Questions with Joseph D. Newcomer
I’ve been interviewed a few times in the last couple of weeks. The questions are fairly predictable: Where do you get your ideas? Advice for new writers? What’s your genre? All good questions, but they get asked a lot. None of the interviewers have read SPARK or this blog – yet. Maybe they’ll come over…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.
Interviews
This was a busy week. Three interviews, a press release, and a couple of podcasts. The podcasts are about a month away from airing, but one of the interviews is now live and the press release is out. Here’s the press release from Reader’s Entertainment: SPARK It’s pretty cool to see your book cover on the…Read More
Book Review: The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
The Paradox Hotel is a love story set 50 years from now. The love story part is touching at times, the rest, not so much. The basic premise is that time travel has become a reality, but it’s limited to the US government and the very, very wealthy. Believable so far. I mean, it’s very…Read More
Moving Pieces
Moving pieces It’s a busy time for me. I’m doing revisions to Fire, blogging, working, and “building my platform.” That’s a phrase that didn’t exist twenty years ago unless you were talking about something to stand on. Now, publishers and agents are interested in it almost before they care about your work. If you’ve got…Read More
Book Review: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
It’s the far distant future. Unfortunately, it takes a while to figure that out. Williams plunges you mid-adventure into the life of Astride, a scholar cum adventurer, whose alleged goal is to study the ecology of implied spaces. What’s an implied space? They are often unintentional. The legs of a chair create an implied space…Read More