I’ve just returned from a multi-genre readercon in Calgary, Alberta, called When Words Collide. Great atmosphere, awesome panels, lots and lots of networking. And best of all, I connected with a dozen authors interested in being showcased on Nine Day Wonder. Unfortunately, my purse had a spelunking accident in the back of… Read More →
Seeing the Light ~ Marie: The Interview Here’s the way it was supposed to work. I was supposed to put on my second best dress and the one pair of pantyhose that didn’t have a hole and go to the Palais Office Building, a five story red brick holdover from… Read More →
Blight of Exiles ~ Chapter Ten The wind blew as if Jack Frost was using Ishmael’s bare torso like a harp. He clenched his teeth to keep them from chattering. His bare feet hurt half way up the shin from the numbing cold. But at least the Padre hadn’t noticed Ishmael sneaking… Read More →
The Murder Prophet ~ Chapter One I was beginning to think I’d go mad if I had to hear the goose scream “Hiii-yahhhhhh!” one more time. The Darcko & Sadatake office sat mostly deserted, with everyone else out on various jobs, leaving me holding down the fort and the reception… Read More →
MOTION SICKNESS Chapter One: It Turned Out, Bewilderingly, To Be Yet Another Laundromat Every time Theo thought he’d found a coffee shop it turned out, bewilderingly, to be yet another laundromat. Finally he found one that served coffee in Styrofoam cups. He ordered six, keeping the creams and sugars… Read More →
Midnight Dawn ~ Chapter 4 After paying the cover charge, I entered the bar area and stepped inside. My extra senses drew me toward a tall guy in a suit sitting at the bar under hundreds of martini glasses dangling upside down from brass rails. I didn’t breathe out snow… Read More →
I’ve been interviewing independently and traditionally published authors for nearly three years now, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned that they all share in common, it’s this: self-promotion sucks. You can only do so much on your own on Twitter and Facebook before people start de-friending you; but at… Read More →