As am I writing this book about a bullied youth, I remember my own experience in the past, before bullying was given the spotlight that it deserves. 
I remember the worst incident.  I was in summer school, around 4th or 5th grade and a bunch of kids beat me up during gym class, while the teacher watched.  Being beaten up was bad enough--I recall ( Read more... )

500 words.  The character is turning out different than I first envisioned him.  He's stronger than I was at that age.

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There are more species of moths fluttering around Wild Acres* than I've ever seen.  The most amazing one is the luna moth.  Light green with paper, leaf-veined wings, and spotted with orange eye-shaped dots, it is a beautiful and fearsome thing.  Moths were everywhere.  In the rooms, glued to the ceilings, fluttering on flowers and greenery.  The ( Read more... )

Jed Berry, Chris Rowe, Ted Chiang and I went to the top of Mount Mitchell after Sycamore Hill....


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So I'm off for a week for a writer's retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains--the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop.  I'll be away from all media, and just focusing on workshopping fiction--mine and other folks pieces.  A kind of working vacation.  My mom seems to be doing fine with her occupational therapy, and of course, there's always the cell phone, ( Read more... )

"A Bird of Ice" was a finalist for the Spectrum Award.

Alas, no Honorable Mention.  But there's this lovely bit o' verbiage in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #21:

Steve Berman's So Fey: Queer Fairy Fictions (Haworth) was one of the stronger themed anthologies of the year. Favorite stories included Holly Black's heartbreaking "The Coat of Stars" and Eugie Foster's "Year of the Fox," as well as work ( Read more... )

I am working on a novel right now, and I am find the going slow. Part of the reason is that it's not coming to me linearly. Episodes will appear and I write them down, without regard to what's gone on before. This doesn't really worry me--the novel and plot happen in and out of various timestreams, and the story itself is weird, as much of the ( Read more... )

Sun 11 Nov 2007,

* Eric Andrews-Katz, Steve Berman, Rick Bowes, Tom Cardamone, Cassandra Clare, Ruby deBrazier, Craig Gindley, Victoria McManus, Sean Meriwether group reading at Housing Works, 126 Crosby Street, New York City NY, US, 5 p.m.

They got my name wrong! D'oh!