New Life in Autumn – 6/9/22!
Hey, check out what’s coming soon! RETURN TO THE MEAN STREETS OF AUTUMNValerius Bakhoum is dead and buried. Too bad he’s still flat broke and behind on the rent. Unsure […]
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#TueSneakPeek: Shut the Gates of Mercy
I also did a Twitter thread on Shut the Gates of Mercy, my third Emperor Norton time travel novella, as part of Sarah J. Sover‘s #TueSneakPeek. Mostly this book happens
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#TueSneakPeek: Aesthetics of New Life in Autumn
FYI, this post talks about themes and some 10,000-foot-view elements of a work that is not yet published, so if you hate reading about a book before you read the
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A Work in Progress: Perfect Virtue
After spending the last couple of years neck deep in science fiction and urban fantasy, I’ve been dying to write horror again. My current work in progress is about ghosts,
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A Tower of Concrete and Flame
That’s right, it’s another #SanFranciscoSunday, and I want to talk about the woman who wore trousers and smoked cigars so she could gamble–a woman so famous the city built a
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A Street of Wood and Blossoms
The Filbert Steps are a living embodiment of all the best things about San Francisco.
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A fist of stone rises over San Francisco
It’s what I think of when I think of that city, and it’s going to be one of the first places I go the next time I go back.
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Weeper’s Corner with a French 75
Last week I turned in SHUT THE GATES OF MERCY, the third entry in my four-book Emperor Norton series, and I want to talk a little about the setting for
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Sedition & Escape
Readers—and writers—like to see problems solved and villains defeated. The problems in our stories spring from problems in shared reality, though, and the enjoyment we derive from seeing evil defeated and wrongs righted should motivate us in the real world long after. Let us be willing to speak out against what’s wrong or unjust as readily as we cheer for the hero when they step on screen.
2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award!
Y’all… …I won! Monday, July 27, 2020, Durham, NC: The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation is proud to announce the winner of the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy,
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