Quoth Og Mandino

"Action will destroy your procrastination."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

My Wiscon Schedule! (OK not really.)

No, I’m not going to be at Wiscon this year. Basically I’m not doing any cons until my book comes out. All my pennies are being scrupulously hoarded away for my book launch party at WFC in October (I mean, I know you people. You’re going to demand the good snacks and booze. I [...]

Silent Spring

OK, I admit it … my blog has been very quiet lately.

It’s not for lack of stuff to post about … my daughter left for Outdoor School this morning, I need to write a review of THE LAST WITCHFINDER by James Morrow (which was utterly fantastic;  Morrow is one of my new favorite [...]

"The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin

When I was at World Fantasy this past October, I attended a couple of readings that blew me away. One was a reading by Saladin Ahmed, from his yet-to-be-agented-or-sold novel (I can’t recall the title, alas). The fact that I couldn’t look forward to a specific date on which I could pick up the [...]

"Indigo Springs" by A.M. Dellamonica

In Indigo Springs, a small town in Oregon, a magical apocalypse is brewing, and three young people are right smack-dab in the middle of it. Astrid, the book’s protagonist, has inherited a lovely old blue house from her ne’er-do-well father. She doesn’t even have all the moving boxes unpacked when her manipulative friend Sierra, [...]

An embarrassment of bookly riches

Today’s mail brought quite a lovely shower of books, as I got a delivery from Amazon.com and one from PS Publishing. The PS Publishing one contained my contributor’s copies for Postscripts 19, “The Enemy of the Good” and man, are they pretty. Amazing quality binding, paper, art, everything. And I think this is the [...]