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Website Help!

In my last day job, I was a web editor - so you’d think I’d know what I was doing. But now that I’m about to publish my first book, it’s time to me to write copy for my brand-new website (not yet launched),  and I’m suddenly running up against some really big questions. What […]

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What’s a Story?

Like many good things, this one comes with a prize at the bottom
I was reading through my contributor copy of Terribly Twisted Tales earlier this week.  I’m into the twisted fairy tales these days, and I’ve enjoyed a lot of the stories, but I also read some that left me thinking, “But that wasn’t […]

“Hard Times Come Again No More….”

These are hard times in the writing business.  Yeah, I know:  you don’t want to hear about it.  Frankly, I don’t want to write about it.  But sometimes we have to move past our likes and dislikes and deal with reality.  And the reality is that the publishing business is in disarray right now.  
I […]

All Writers Are

Years and years ago at an sf convention I sat on a panel during which one of the other panelists opined that (I’m totally paraphrasing and mangling the second half but I am pretty sure that the first phrase is a direct quote) “all writers are rapists, because we force our words into the minds […]

Writing by the Seat of the Pants

Typically I plan my novels. I may not do it well or thoroughly, but I plan them. Usually I know where they start and where they will end, and a couple of high points along the way. Sometimes I know a whole lot more. I’ve never just jumped off the cliff and looked for water […]

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