The Aurealis Award for Best Anthology went to The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, edited by Jonathan Strahan. My story “Pinocchio” happens to be listed in the Table of Contents. Coincidence? Perhaps not!

Can I just pause for a moment and express my relief that we now have a president who speaks my language? By which I mean English. I was not an early Obama supporter (in my hopeless, quixotic way, I liked Bill Richardson, whose campaign has now ended in a grand jury investigation), but my modest […]

So here’s my latest literary complaint.I’ve just finished a book that was written by, let’s face it, a geek. And the geekness was, alas, there for all to see.And let me state loudly and clearly that I have nothing against geeks. Geeks know cool stuff— which is sort of the definition of a geek, someone […]

I’m off to a relaxing weekend hideaway. I’ll be getting massages and visiting hot springs. I may be too relaxed to even think of checking in here for a few days.You are at liberty to envy me.