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Dreams in the Fire (2011) Edited by Mark Finn and Chris Gruber, Cover by Jim and Ruth Keegan. Dreams in the Fire contains stories and p...

Sensuous writing, to me, has little to do with sexuality. It has to do, in large part, with engaging the senses, of enmeshing the reader in...

My next Razored Zen Author Interview features Mark Durfee . Mark is the first poet I’ve interviewed. Mark is a Detroit poet, what very well ...

I watched Charlie Sheen get roasted last night and enjoyed it. I seldom pay attention to celebrities, but I often do enjoy these roasts. Be...

A week ago now, Tropical Storm Lee swept through our area. We "weathered" the storm quite nicely. We had quite a bit of rain but...

I remember reading a piece by Harlan Ellison once about how a story idea and a title came to him. If I remember correctly, he was on a plane...

For want of a zipper, writing time was lost. One day last week I woke up half an hour early. That meant I got to work half an hour early. ...

I'm over at Novel Spaces for a couple of days with a post about story endings. I hope you'll drop by. ----- -----

Since finishing Under the Ember Star in July I haven’t done a lot of writing. I took a couple of weeks off, and then school started and I’v...

I think it’s time to run another author interview. My guest today is Chris La Tray. I first became aware of Chris’s work on Beat to a Pul...

Heroic fantasy is a literature of myth making. It's not about telling things the way they are, or even about how they were or might have...

I've got a post up over at Novel Spaces today on "Adaptability." Stop by if you get the chance. I'd appreciate it. ---...

I'd like to get your opinions on something. When I first published Killing Trail , I set the price at $2.99. The price seemed both rea...

Well, school is back in session. We had registration on Thursday and Friday. Classes start on Monday . I’ve got a pretty good schedule this...

In a story, things happen. And they don’t happen in a nice, predictable pattern. Telling a story isn’t like playing a game of chess. The wri...

We interrupt our scheduled Part Two of "In a Story" to mention that there's an interview with me up over at David Wisehart...

In a story, things happen. They happen immediately, or at least PDQ. Things that have happened are frequently revealed in dialogue, or, oft...