So…. Pilgrimage to Skara, my second completed novel (the first shall never see the light of day), continues to garner, uhm, “stellar” reviews.  See here, here, and here, for the latest reviewer feedback. Muse:  You did earn all those reviews, you know.  It’s your own damn fault. By the way, if you have morbid…

Well, hey – I’m over at Marco’s blog today, talking about worldbuilding!  Check it out.

Did You Say Chicks?! by Esther M. FriesnerMy rating: 3 of 5 starsI really wanted to love this anthology: parodies of sexist sword and sorcery stories are right up my alley, and I’ve always enjoyed Friesner as both an author and an anthologist. Some of …

I never intended to write a novel.  Scylla and Charybdis was supposed to be a short story.  In hindsight, I’d never written a “real” science fiction novel before:  I’d dabbled in it, but they were all terrible, straight up fantasy-in-space, or both, written when I was too green a writer to know better.  (There’s…

I’m not the only excellent author at Grimbold Books, and today, fellow author Frances Kay visits, interviewed by the titular cats, Grim and Bold.  (As a person owned by two fluffy white dogs, I cannot endorse cat supremacy, but cats are sometimes as wonderful as dogs.  Sometimes.)  Here’s Frances’ intro:What are Dollywagglers? A dismissive…