Fun news - HUMANITY 2.0 (which currently tops several Bestseller lists on amazon) is on sale for $2.99. I'm told the price reverts back to normal tomorrow.


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Hm... It appears that LJBook has become BlogBooker. A bit more commercial than the old version, but still a pretty effective way to compile archived blog files. And they'll let me compile a bit more for free if I mention BlogBooker in this post.

BlogBooker, BlogBooker, BlogBooker...

The October edition of Analog Science Fiction and Fact is now available on Amazon.


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I’m pleased to announce that my story “Nexus” will be appearing in HUMANITY 2.0, an anthology scheduled for release in October 2016.


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Happy Halloween! This year I decided to give my readers a gift while sneakily also advertising the children's book I wrote under my new pseudonym. I'm sure no one will notice that the decorative border is actually a link to a line of entertaining chapter books. Nope. Uh-uh.

The Half-life of Chocolate, reprinted below, originally appeared with Fae ( Read more... )

Why use a pseudonym, people ask.

Basically, it's a branding thing. I usually write hard science fiction and secondary-world fantasy. This time I wrote a cutesy halloween book with interior drawings. The overlap in those two audiences isn't very big. (Well, ok, it's bigger than, say, the overlap between historical romance and near-future military ( Read more... )

I’ve been flitting around the internet lately. Below, a list of blog posts. If you miss hearing from me, you can go read them. :)

Humor as a Plot Adhesive - SFWA.org
Writing for Kids - David Walton's web site
Interview with Sherrida Pope - Darusha Wehm's blog ( Read more... )

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