Friday, the fine folks at JournalStone will release my novel VAPORWARE. It has been described as a "video game ghost story", a sort of Fatal Attraction for the digital age where being "married to the job" means something a little different and a lot more dangerous. You can find it at the JournalStone site, or at amazon, or any number of other fine ( Read more... )

“And the Rain Fell Through Her Fingers” was written in the throes of my courtship of the brilliant and talented Melinda Thielbar, who at the time was living in Chicago whilst I dwelt amongst the apartment hives of Cary, NC. (Note: Melinda and I have been married for seven-plus years. That tells you how old this story is ( Read more... )

New book reviews can be found here:
Ray Bradbury's Nemo - the lost script for Bradbury's adaptation of the beloved comic strip, now published at last
Bill Willingham's Proposition Player - in which I do not make a single joke about how all the characters in my old V&V sourcebooks have thighs bigger around than their torsos
Phil and Kaja Foglio's ( Read more... )

Or more accurately, the table of contents for The New Hero, the upcoming anthology from Stone Skin Press that I've got a piece in, can be found here. Prepare thyself for awesomeness. 

That's this month's entry, continuing the occasional October tradition of short fiction. Check it out here.

Regardless of format wars, e-readers and the continuing economic strangeness that is Conde Nast, there's something wonderfully decadent about a well-made glossy magazine. Which is to say that my copy of Stranded finally arrived, and it is gorgeous. Having a piece in there (and with illustration, it takes up four pages - I'm such a column inch hog) ( Read more... )