In case my spate of reviews should be giving the impression that I'm living (as my ex said not long after we parted) entirely for pleasure, I thought I'd bring you all up to date with what I'm doing when not swanning the theatres of New York in fetching outfits and neo-vintage hats.

I finally finished and sent "The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor" to Gavin ( Read more... )

I seem to remember making many fine resolutions last year about writing every day, even if only for an hour, which sounded reasonable at the time, but (like world peace and a perfect health insurance plan) dissolved under the weight of real life and human nature, namely mine, and I lapsed back into what seems to be The Way I Do It, which is fairly ( Read more... )

I've found a Trapeze Glossary on line, and several Circus Glossaries, but while they list some very cool-sounding tricks and moves (Angel; Reverse Angel; Bird's Nest; Amazon--and a bunch more I wrote down on a piece of paper somewhere that I now can't find), they don't say what they look like.  And I'd like to know what they look like, otherwise, I ( Read more... )

I'm researching circus cat acts for a story destined for submission in a vampire anthology.  Given the fact that most people think cats are about as untrainable as Bandersnatches or Snarks, it's amazing that I found any at all, let alone the dozens I have just viewed--some of which are actually of private persons who have trained their cats to roll ( Read more... )

One of the rarest and most wonderful events in a writer's life is when a reviewer really, really gets a story. Colleen Mondor has written such a review of the story I wrote for Ellen Datlow's Poe, "The Red Piano," here, in Chasing Ray.

This review is making me very, very, very happy indeed.

David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have taken "Gift From A Spring" for Years Best Fantasy 9!!!! What I understand is that Tor is going to issue it as an e-book, with a POD trade paperback available I'm not sure where. Cutting edge publishing for sure ( Read more... )

Charles Tan has kindly given me permission to post what I like of the interview he did with me for the Nebula Award Site ( Read more... )

Finally getting to the NYTimes Book Review over breakfast today, I read a glowing review of a book called Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory, which is ( Read more... )

My week:

Monday: Final, final, final version of The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen handed in to the beautiful and talented sdn, who sent it right off to the copy editor (who is probably also beautiful and talented, but I don't know who it is, so I can't encourage him/her personally). It was EK's birthday, so we went out to dinner at Dervish, ( Read more... )

I finished a complete draft of "How the Pooka Came to New York." Just now. It has an epic battle with pigs in it and a Lady of the Shee who runs a saloon in Five Points, lunch free with two 5 cent beers. It's either pretty good or pretty bad, I can no longer tell which. But it's done, and that's the main thing ( Read more... )