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A Year of Year’s Bests
I am having a wonderful, marvelous, totally nifty year. Or maybe I had that year in 2015. Hard to say, really. Just depends on how you look at things. Here’s what I mean. My novella, “Inhuman Garbage,” appeared in two best of the year volumes in July. Depending on what you prefer to read, you […]
Continue ReadingAnd Another New Story!
I’m particularly proud of this one, probably because it surprised even me when I finished it. I wrote “Christmas Eve at The Exit” last year, after hearing this query at a hotel just below my house. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine picked the story up for their holiday issue. It’s not a warm and fuzzy piece, but […]
Continue ReadingThe Return of Spade and Paladin!
I know so many of you like my two sf-fan investigators, Spade and Paladin. Their latest adventure has just appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine‘s holiday issue, along with work from some of my favorite writers. You can get the January/February issue of the magazine on your local newsstand or order it on various online sites–or […]
Continue ReadingRecommended Reading List: September, 2014
Fortunately, I read a lot of really good books this month, and stories, and articles.
Continue ReadingRecommended Reading List: September, 2013
I got an amazing amount of fantastic reading done in September—and I didn’t feel like I had read enough. Yet I look at this list, and realize I somehow squeezed a lot of reading in. Wow. My tastes were pretty eclectic in September. Romance, mystery, nonfiction—it’s all here. These are my top picks from a […]
Continue ReadingRecommended Reading List: June, 2013
Who knew that a chair could be so important? My best reading chair is in my writing office, but I have a strict rule: I cannot read any fiction but my own in that office. I learned the hard way that if I read other people’s fiction in my office, I never get any writing […]
Continue ReadingSpree again
I’ve been remiss in reminding you to check out my serialized mystery, Spree. Two new chapters have gone up since I last mentioned it. Chapter Five will change how you view everything that’s happened so far, and Chapter Six, well, it went up yesterday. And if you haven’t read any of it yet, you can read […]
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Just a reminder: every Tuesday, WMG Publishing publishes another chapter in my novel, Spree. You can read chapters one and two this week for free, or you can spring for the entire book. More info on the WMG Novel Tuesday link on the WMG site.
Continue ReadingRecommended Reading: February 2013
Most of what I read in February was for the Fiction River anthologies and for the various workshops I did. Most of that will receive recommendations from me—or you can just consider Fiction River its own recommendation. But for the rest of February, I researched a new novel and read some stuff that mostly did […]
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