Want to write?  Want to encourage someone else to write?  You can do one or both of these at the Clarion Write-a-Thon, which begins on June 26! You can agree to sponsor a writer and pay by the word!  You can be a writer, and receive encouragement from your sponsor!  Or you could both write […]

My good friend Melinda Snodgrass has a new Wild Cards story up on Tor.com.  You can read it for free. Consider it an introduction to the newly-released Wild Cards anthology, Fort Freak, tales of the mean alternate streets of New York, sixty-odd years after the Wild Cards outbreak. Enjoy.

I just finished playing Dragon Age: Origins, the console game, to its conclusion.  For the fifth time. While I like this game a great deal— enough to go through the sixty or so hours of gameplay no less than five times— it must be said that I truly hate the finale.  It’s a brutal slogfest […]

Behold the new cover for the upcoming ebook release of The Crown Jewels.  I slapped it together myself with Photoshop and a piece of stock art. Not bad, if I do say so myself.  And it achieves the principal objective of an ebook cover, which is to remain legible when reduced to postage-stamp size. I […]