Haven't done a purely review-oriented roundup in ages, so here are three - some are really old...

- Nerds of a Feather reviews the Apex Book of World SF, including nice words for my story "Eyes in the Vastness of Forever".
- Tangent reviews Albedo #37, with my story "Offline" in it, and so does SF CrowsnestAs always, reviews - good and bad - are ( Read more... )

Over the past year or so, I've been less than diligent in reporting those little (and big, sometimes) things that make being a writer worth the time and aggravation.  I do have the excuse that I got married, sold two apartments, bought one and moved three times, as well as having traveled abroad seven times since January of 2012 in the middle of it ( Read more... )

I just learned that the very first review of Virtuoso and Other Stories is live at Abyss & Apex.  The first review is always stressful, and I'm happy to report that enraged reviewers have not demanded my death this time.  In fact, it was a mostly positive review, and made me very happy.

You can read it here.

Please feel free to ignore my happy dance ( Read more... )

As long-suffering readers of this blog are well aware, I post links to any and all reviews of my writing that appear on the net, good or bad.  The readon for this is that I am constantly fascinated by the different things people see in my work.  For example, one woman who reviewed my collection Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places felt that the ( Read more... )

The reviews of Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places keep pouring in, and the latest one appeared here on Residential Aliens, written by Fred Warren.  Once again, the reviewer says nice things about the book, looks at each story separately, and is objective about the things he didn't like as well.  This is probably the review I'd point people to if ( Read more... )

The question of what happens a few months / years after the dead rise and many of your best friends become their lunch and join the ranks is one that's been explored quite a bit of late, but of the books I've read that deal with it, The World is Dead, from Permuted Press is the best.  This one contains my story "Bridge Over the Cunene", and I've ( Read more... )

Being a complete outsider - at least where the English-speaking community is concerned - has its advantages.  These are myriad, of course, but among them is one that I find particularly valuable: I'm not emotionally involved in any of the political and social divisions that seem so rampant, especially in the US.

So while many bloggers are friends ( Read more... )

Just yesterday, I was saying how readers love my work and how both my stories and my debut collection were garnering positive reviews (in case you missed them, here and here are a couple of the good reviews for Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places).

Of course, calling oneself a critical darling, even in jest, is an invitation to the gods of karma ( Read more... )

When I first started on this writing journey, the only measure of success was the number of rejections coming in.  After that, it was the number of acceptances mixed in with the stream of rejections.  It took quite a while, and many, many publications before I came to understand, deep in my bones, that the opinion of editors is much less important ( Read more... )

The first full-length review of Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (Amazon | Kindle | Barnes & Noble) came out yesterday.  It was a really positive review written by Bruce Durham (an excellent writer in his own right), and it got me thinking of my chosen field of writing.  You can read it here.

Most of you know that I will write anything from  ( Read more... )