Here’s an excerpt from an interview with me that’s up today over at Scribophile, an online critiquing and hanging-with-writers community.

Scribophile: In general, how much research do you do for your novels? Does it take place before you sit down and write the thing, or do you work on both tasks at the same time? And how can you tell when you’ve ( Read more... )

The biggest problem facing SORROW'S KNOT at the moment?  Goats ( Read more... )

Research for Gilbert Perez  has me tearing my hair out.  I am about to toss in the towel and admit that I don't have a hope of understanding how the Aztecs saw the world, and that I'm about to commit massive cultural appropriation and race fail.  So I am taking a break and instead assembling a list of books that would be better with zombies in them ( Read more... )

So today was my first day working at the library. My first real day "at work" as a writer. At first I couldn't figure out what to do with myself. I fixed a broken link on my new website and wrote on someone's facebook wall (because, yes, I have gone over to the facebook darkside). But then I got rolling and the next two hours went so FAST. I ( Read more... )

Friendslist, save me! I am reading about the history of prisons (interesting!) but so far have not come up with the answer to the question I really want: where would a person be held awaiting trial in Mexico City in the late 1500s?

Anyone know? Or know who would know? Or have a book to recommend?

I already asked at little details, where someone ( Read more... )