I’ve been talking in vague terms about the sequels to The Thorn of Dentonhill and A Murder of Mages.   But now, finally, I can say that DAW will be publishing both […]

Here’s the thing about being a published writer: to some degree, you’re putting yourself in the public spotlight.  What you do with that spotlight, however small and faint, is up […]

When I was a kid, one of the cliched things we were told about Native Americans was how they used “every part of the buffalo”.  Now, this is a perfectly […]

Let’s talk a bit about the 2003 Daredevil movie and the Daredevil Netflix series that just came out.  The former was largely panned, and is considered one of the low points of the dipping-our-toe-in-this-superhero-thing […]

In the midst of all the other things I’ve got going on, the ArmadilloCon Writers Workshop is quickly coming upon us.  After three years in the co-pilot seat, I’m taking […]

One of the things I love about Game of Thrones is how it uses a wide reach of locations– both in story and in the filming.  They shoot the show in Croatia, […]

Some time ago, I read a work-in-progress for critique which had some interesting problems with passage of time.  It would spend a few chapters focusing on the minutiae of a […]

I don’t typical make any sort of “political” posts on my blog.  Not because I don’t have political opinions; of course I do.  But I find that, usually, when an […]

I’ve talked several times in the past that my real gateway into “traditional” fantasy was David Eddings.  One of the complaints laid against him, which is a pretty fair complaint, […]