I have wonderful news to share. My story, “Catherine The Great,” is a finalist for the Derringer Award. The Derringers, for those of you who don’t know, are a prestigious mystery award given to the best short fiction of the year, as determined by The Short Mystery Fiction Society. “Catherine the Great” is in the […]
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I read a lot of books in January, but don’t have as many to recommend as I would have thought. I started one bestseller’s novel and quit because I knew exactly where it was going. (I glanced ahead, and yep. On rails.) I read another and was quite irritated because it didn’t do anything new […]
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I curated a new Storybundle for writers (or their lovely friends who want to give the bundle as a gift). The bundle started today and will continue for just a few weeks. I’m really excited about this one. Each book builds on the others…and there’s even a special pop-up workshop here. Try to draft a […]
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As we get closer and closer to April, I get more and more excited about novellas. Dean and I are teaching a year-long series called The Art of The Novella. As many of you already know, I love this length and write in a lot. Different genres have different tropes and expectations for the novella, […]
Continue ReadingSo many of you supported the 6 SF Novellas Kickstarter. Even more of you mentioned with warmth how much at least one of those novellas meant to you when you first read it. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I greatly appreciate you all.
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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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I learned something a bit startling late last year. I was putting together the reading list for my in-person science fiction mystery class, and I realized that most of the books I wanted my students to read were out of print—and there was no electronic edition. Most of them were anthologies that came out in […]
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