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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May was when some crap hit the fan at WMG, and I found myself working 18 hours per day and getting very little sleep. Consequently, I didn’t read much in May. What I did read was in bits and pieces, spread out over the entire month. So I don’t have a lot to recommend here…but […]
Continue ReadingWe are slowly getting through what was a very difficult eight months. In addition to Dean’s injury and the shooting at UNLV, we had issues of our own at WMG. A long-time employee turned out to be someone other than who we thought she was. The mess she left behind after her dismissal has been […]
Continue ReadingI read a lot of short fiction in May. I didn’t finish a lot of books. I dipped in and out of anthologies, collections, magazines, and individual short Kindle titles. I was exhausted, a lot happened this month, and I couldn’t sustain concentration long enough to finish many novels. In fact, I often forgot I […]
Continue ReadingI got back to reading in September, but bumped along on my choices. I had trouble concentrating in the first part of the month, since so much was going on in my life. I read a celebrity memoir and enjoyed it, but don’t feel it was good enough to recommend. Then I read two other […]
Continue ReadingBack in September, I went to Germany for as the guest of honor for Elstercon in Leipzig. I took time on that trip to visit Nuremberg for research on a book. The book isn’t done; it’s still percolating. But the first short story from that trip–a novella, actually–has just appeared. The story is called “Show […]
Continue ReadingI taught a workshop this month and read a lot of great writing from the students, things I hope to see in print someday soon. In addition to that, I suffered a lot of disappointment. Books I had looked forward to for months came out and were adequate in one case and just plain awful […]
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