Authors You Should Know

Popcorn Kittens

Saw this on Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s website. Reminded me of Kevin J. Anderson’s Popcorn Theory of Writing Success. Enjoy!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope your 2017 is joyful and prosperous. I’m glad that psychotic and murderous 2016 is finally over. I have to admit, I have an affinity for the early science fiction, fantasy, and weird tales that came out in the beginning of the twentieth century. Some of the tales are cringe-worthy […]

Julie Campbell Cover Reveal

Congratulations to J.A. Campbell on her new book. Here’s the cover! BLURB Freshman year of college should have been parties and classes and hanging out with my friends. I never even made it to my first month of classes. Instead, I went off to learn how to be a vampire, how to fight, […]

There Will Come Soft Rains

I read on Farcebook that Grandmaster Ray Bradbury’s house was sold and torn down. I have to admit, the first thing that crossed my mind was it should have been turned into a museum. After all, Ray’s work crossed many genres, and even today some universities use his work when teaching courses on prose and […]

Between the Interstice: On Lovecraft and Weird Fiction

Guest post by author Mike Robinson “Back then, with the visions, most of the time I was convinced I’d lost it. There were other times, though, where I thought I was mainlining the secret truth to the universe.” — Rust Cohle, True Detective Behind the wide facade of Speculative Fiction twist the hedge-mazes […]

Fiction Writing Assessment

From the brilliant Tim Waggoner, here’s an assessment form for use in teaching, workshops, or even critique groups. At the very least, it can be used as a checklist for beta readers as to what kind of feedback would be useful. It’s a freebie. The email and name is to send a receipt. Feel […]

Barton’s Island

Villainous Press released Barton’s Island by Harl Vincent, one of my favorite early science fiction authors. I wrote the foreword for this book, and even my wife, who is not a big reader of science fiction, enjoyed the story. In the year 2229, Jerome Carter and his Gang of Ten run the government of United North […]

Guest Blog at Armand Rosamilia’s Place

Armand Rosamilia, that scary horror-writing gent behind Dying Days and Miami Spy Games, invited the authors from the Fifty Shades of Decay anthology to send him a blog post about their stories. Despite the outcry, pitchforks, and torches, he just posted my entry. Pop on by, and make sure you check out the posts from both Armand […]

Authors You Should Know: Gene O’Neill

Welcome to the first entry in a new, ongoing series. I will be posting about authors I personally admire. Authors with wit, skill, a dazzling way with words, and who are just wonderful people in Real Life®. Some will be from the Golden Ages of Science Fiction, some will be from my formative years of […]