Pretty sure it’s racist. — Slan is the story of Übermensch Jommy Cross and his adventure in trying to achieve world peace through the cunning use of demonstrating superior genetics and the precise application of stealing free will through psychic superpowers. It’s cool, though. Jommy only takes free will from people who would have wasted…

What am I reading right now? I will tell you. — Life is too short to read anything except what you want to read. That said, how do you decide what to read? That’s a serious question. How do you decide what to read? We all have different decision-making criteria. I like hearing the preachy, pushy excuses people assign to their…

Marketing makes as much sense as a staircase into a blank wall. Writers are contradictory animals. We’re shy, but we also want our stories to get attention. There’s a psychotic break there somewhere. Not sure exactly how that works, but it does. We want to tell stories to people. The…

As a career, writing can’t function outside a community. It’s a weird thing: you do it in isolation, because it has to be done in isolation. The work doesn’t happen without a good deal of alone time. At the same time, you SUCCEED at it because of the village rooting…

I lost a bunch of important contests — This past year I decided to invest in myself. I entered my novel into four contests, and several short stories into others. Overall, I entered seven paid contests. Which is not a huge amount, I grant you, but it was six more than the year before and eight more…

It’s about my book — I have a mission for you: tell two people about this. I’ve just finished the first draft of the best book I’ve written to date. I’m vibrating, I’m so excited. It’s ALMOST the kind of story I’d like to tell. I have more practicing to do if I want to…

Otherwise, fame sounds like literal hell — I have two fantasy universes. One’s the Twiggiverse, and I’m not talking about it. The other’s the Cityverse. (These are working titles.) I’ve been writing a lot in the Cityverse. Thing about the Cityverse is I mainly write modern, urban fantasy in it. And the character I write about in…