Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
A thousand apologies for skipping a day's pondering, but my energies have been focused on a screenplay version of an audio drama I did a couple of years ago called Denial.…
Very Bad Poetry, Captain
As those of you who read this blog regularly (Hi, Mom) know, I'm a sucker for a bad movie. Bad books, by contrast, fail to slay me. I would no…
Next Job On the List: Find Rival
Because I don't really know either person, though I do follow Ellis on Twitter, I can't speak to the reasons why Bret Easton Ellis bags on David Foster Wallace. (Based…
Here Be Pirates II: Electric Boogaloo
RJ Ellory, thriller writer, pulls an Orlando Figes on Amazon.
Poison Pen Letters
Through a former classmate, I came upon Michelle Hoover's take on the controversy surrounding William Giraldi's nasty review of Alix Ohlin's books, which fits into a larger conversation about whether…
Dismantle the Sun, My Debut Novel, is Out
It took ten years, ten months and an odd number of days from inception of the project to this point, but Booktrope Press has released my debut novel, Dismantle the Sun…
Morning Shill
As we approach the release date of my epoch shatteringly wonderful novel, Dismantle the Sun, I will unfortunately be doing a good deal more shilling, frequently hooking it onto some barely…
Everything is Connected to Everything Else
Charles Stross posted about Scrivener, a word processing program that allows authors to organize their long projects in all sorts of useful ways to facilitate catching continuity errors and snip…