Betraying a refreshingly unusual attitude, the screenwriter who wrote Battlefield Earth apologizes for his work. It wasn’t as I intended — promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.It started, as so many […]

Don’t say I never did anything for you! My new Night Shade collection, The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories, is now available for pre-order at half price!

A memo written by David Mamet has recently surfaced, one that he wrote to the writers of his TV show The Unit. Though the memo is directed specifically to television writers, it nevertheless contains advice which all writers of fiction should take to heart. . . . OUR FRIENDS. THE PENGUINS, THINK THAT WE, THEREFORE, […]

My story “Abrizonde,” from the Songs From the Dying Earth collection edited by Gardner Dozois and George RR Martin, is on the long list for a British Fantasy Award. As are two more stories from the collection, and the collection itself. Mind you, this is a long list, and it will grow shorter in time. […]