Dark Fiction & Children's Fiction
Dark Fiction & Children's Fiction
In April I blogged about going with the flow of some time-worn astrological advice to revise some fiction that had been rejected. With Mercury again in retrograde this month, while I got back to work on another dystopia that I’d started but never finished, I found myself thinking about an […]
I am so pleased and proud to announce that one of my favorite short stories has found a home! “Liliya and the Lost Relics of Bygone Futures,” a new take on an old folk tale series, is live over on Soft Cartel. Go check it out! All stories are journeys, […]
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I’ve been spending the last few days in end-of-year reflection and coming-year planning, not that planning ever really works out the way we think — 2017 being a great example of that — but more to get my head screwed on straight about what’s come before and what to expect. […]
With Raccoon Rescue now happily out in the world, I’m pleased to announce that my new novella, “Sodom and Gomorrah on a Saturday Night,” has been published in the first-ever Running Wild Novella Anthology! I haven’t written too much about this story for two reasons. First, because it represents the […]
I was possibly not the only writer to feel a sense of disquiet when I read about novels not just written by artificial intelligence — but also nearly winning awards. This wasn’t so much (as with so many other jobs, including possibly my marketing day job) a fear of being […]
I’m so pleased and excited to show off some of the brilliant artwork done for Raccoon Rescue — its cover image! Illustrator Christian Barratt lives in Perth, Western Australia. He did such a great job capturing the characters of Mama, Roxy, Rufus, and Renae not just on the cover, but […]
I was always a long-distance person. Whether running, biking, or swimming, I found I lacked stamina, interest, and/or fast-twitch muscles for sprints. My favorite exercise was to spend hours on the side of the road or in the pool, getting into “the zone,” meditating on my own rhythm. Perhaps because […]
When I first started to write Possum Kingdom, I admit that racial issues were not a big part of the story that was forming. My focus was on economic and class issues, and the allegories I was constructing, as well as honoring the different cultural and historical influences on Boston […]
I ran into a brick wall this week. Things went great Saturday, but Sunday morning, I started to feel like something wasn’t quite right. My progress toward the climax I’d envisioned had slowed, not because I’d overplanned and my plot didn’t match (which has happened before!), but because the story […]