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Friday, January 10, 2025
Writer Beware's Annual Round-Up of Scams
"Ransom and the Giant" Published
My short story, "Ransom and the Giant" has been published in Big Smoke Pulp from Pesto Comics. The anthology is an all genre all action adventure collection. As the title implies, another in my Ransom and Friends urban fantasy series.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
"Ransom in the Woods" Published
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Review of Valdron's Starlost Unauthorized
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
"Alan" Story Reprinted
My mainstream short story, "The Missing Elephant" is up today in CommuterLit. (Free to read)
It was originally published in They Have to Take You In anthology, Ursula Pflug, ed., Hidden Brook Press, 2014 and reprinted in Costal Shelf Issue #1, Nov 20, 2020.
This is an "Alan" story from my series about life in the 1960s, this one about things one did not talk about and the overwhelming power of denial.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Guest Spot on Re-Creative
Hosts Joe Mahoney and Mark A. Rayner invited me to come on Re-Creative, the podcast about art and writing that inspire writers. I took a long time to think about which writer or artist had had a big impact on me, but they had already talked about Den Valdron's The Mermaid's Tale and Douglas Adams, and I was debating amongst so many other possibilities (Terry Pratchett, Samual Marchbanks, Dave Duncan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Shane Koyzan, Lois McMaster Bujold, etc etc) that I just couldn't focus: until I read R. F. Kuang's Yellowface (See my text review). I could not shut up about how brilliant and relevant Yellowface is, a must-read for every aspiring writer, so that became the natural topic to propose to Mohoney and Rayner.
We also talk about a bit about my writing, editing, and breakfast.