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It’s probably hard to imagine here and now, but there was a point in time where the conventional wisdom was that Madonna was a flash-in-the-pan artist, and Cyndi Lauper would […]

For the past few years I’ve been running the ArmadilloCon Writers’ Workshop, and in the years before I was teaching it, I was a student in it.  The first chapters […]

Way back in the early days of the Internet, there was a little thing that went viral called “80s Movie Ending ”.  It was riddled with clichés: mismatched group of losers […]

Writing is a solitary activity.  It is fundamentally about holing up somewhere and shutting out the world and getting the work done.  This is a job for introverts. But promotion, […]

If there was one thing the 80s loved, it was a heavy-handed morality tale.  And did For Keeps deliver that in spades. The basic gist of For Keeps is one […]

“Your first three ideas are wrong.” This was a piece of advice that came from the production designer I worked with the most in my theatre days, which he got […]

This weekend I’ll be at ComicPalooza in Houston.  If you’re in the area– or looking for a good excuse to be– come by and say hello.  Or even sign up […]

The writing business is rough.  You put stuff out there, and you kind of have to accept that rejection is the baseline.  That’s the thing you have to earn yourself […]

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle There was a point in time where someone thought putting a fair amount of money behind a movie starring a bleach-blonde Tanya Roberts (of Beastmaster […]

I firmly believe that professional writers have a duty to pay forward the help they received to get where they are.  I have achieved what I did because professionals volunteered […]