I’m very happy to finally be able to announce that I have a short story in this:


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Reading and writing are intrinsic to my life, and have been since I was three years old.

People who can’t read or write, or haven’t had the opportunity to develop those skills beyond a grade-school level, are at a serious disadvantage in society today. Not being able to read street signs, contracts, web sites, bank statements or practically ( Read more... )

That big to-do list of mine isn’t going anywhere, so I’m blogging sparsely this week until I catch up on my rewrites to Iron Codex II.  (I really hope I’ll be able to share the title and cover soon, because the cover is ah-mayyyy-zing.)

So, that list:

• Revised draft of Devil’s Business - March 7
• Revised draft of Iron Codex II - April 1
• 50 pp. proposal ( Read more... )

Back in the fall I wrote a story that I called “Born Under a Bad Sign”, aka “The Shotgun-Wielding Fallen Angel Story”.

I’m happy to say that The Wild Side, the anthology I sold it to, has a kickass Dan Dos Santos cover:


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I have a confession--I'm really not very good at short stories.

I've gotten better than I was when I had to write them for college classes. Those were dreadful. I've just never taken naturally to short form. Which is why I eschew the advice that "You Must!" (oh, we hate "you must" here at Headquarters) "You must start out writing short stories ( Read more... )

I'm working on a YA short right now called "Behind the Red Door" for inclusion in an anthology from Running Press called Kiss Me Deadly. I got the cover today, and it's utterly fantastic:


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I told you last time I had some news. And here it is ( Read more... )

1. If you invite me to become a fan of yourself on Facebook, step back and ask yourself "Am I really comfortable with this level of meta/rampant narcissim?" If the answer is "Yes", then perhaps you and I should reconsider our fake FB friendship.
2. When I post something on Twitter and your first impulse is to contradict me for no reason or point out how ( Read more... )

I'm working on a short story called "Under the Hill and Far Away" (my Led Zeppelin is pasted on yay) which is set in the Black London 'verse but focuses primarily on Pete, a body, a castle full of suspects and DRAMATIC LIGHTNING ( Read more... )

Here's more of "Rusty Cage", wherein our narrator, Maggie, ponders being in the boy's club:

"Were I a man, I'd get a friendly handshake, a slap on the shoulder. Hell, after two years on homicides I'd probably have a nickname. Red. Or Junior. Youth and blazing Irish hair were easy pickings for cops."

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Sadly, I didn't do a whole hell of a ( Read more... )