I wrote Consecrated Ground in the 1990s. The book went through publishing hell. The acquiring editor was fired…after he had slapped a new name on the book and forgot to put it into production. A year later, the book came out under the new name, but the sales force at the NY publisher thought they had […]
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Don’t you wish we could escape from 2026? Sometimes I do, especially when I look at the state of our world right now. I really want this period in history to end so that I can read the history books from the comfort of my own chair, smiling softly at the fact that we survived […]
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Here’s the book trailer, specifically designed to feature the Kickstarter, for my noir novel, Consecrated Ground. This is the novel that I mentioned on Tuesday, the one that the original editor slapped an offensive title on (which stuck for nearly two decades). I’m using the original title. This novel is historical through and through, although, like […]
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We’re running a Kickstarter as of about five minutes ago. It features a brand-new crime novel that I hesitate to call historical, because part of the book is set now. I’m proud of that book, Candid Shots of the 1970s, but it also surprised me. I thought it was going to be a short story, but […]
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Still operating from behind here, because these past two years were insane. At least I found time to read again, even when conducting a workshop or working with student manuscripts. I didn’t find a lot to like, though, in April. I read a number of books that either didn’t end well or had characters that grated on me. […]
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And it came early in my career…as these things do. Acclaim often happens to a new voice because it so stuns the readers that everyone pays attention. They did so with Gallery of His Dreams, which was a cover story for Asimov’s (my first there), and a limited edition and a many-times reprint. It got […]
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…to writing this particular novella. I’m not even sure it was supposed to be a novella. (I kinda doubt it.) A book editor of mine, Lou Anders, asked me to take part in an anthology of his. Sideways in Crime is a really good anthology of alternate history crime stories. I was writing something else […]
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…no. Not that one, the one we all remember. This one happened about 100 years ago, in the financial district…in the tallest building at the time. I have no idea how I came across this little tidbit, but of course, it attracted my writerly brain, and of course, I had to write about it. September […]
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…about the title for this novella. The End of the World gets used a lot, and while the title is accurate, kinda sorta, for this piece, it’s not the kind of title that makes you—or even me, the author—go, “Oh, yeah! That story.” Whoops. Not changing it now, though. I promised you all I’d tell […]
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Not as much reading this month as I had hoped, but then, this is the month that I didn’t sleep either, because we were dealing with the aftermath of Dean’s fall and surgery. I’m recommending a video as well as a few books and articles, which I will explain below. Much of what I did […]
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