Queer writer of weird things
From the outside, writing looks like long, nearly endless stretches of Nothing interrupted by brief, fairly loud instances of Something, which last hardly any time before sinking back below the surface of Nothing again. Hopefully, each Something offers a writer enough momentum to get through the Nothing until the next Something arrives. All of which …
Writing a book and sending it out into the world is always a weird process. It takes so long, by the time it’s released, it doesn’t feel like something I did. I look at the cover and read the words and think, did I write that? Suffice it to say, I did it with a …
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Happy February! At least, I sure hope it's happy. We could all use some happy. And speaking of happy (see what I did there), my latest book, Three Left Turns to Nowhere, is available NOW (like, right now) at the Bold Strokes Books webstore. Go there and you can get your hands on it (in …
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Join me on Tuesday, Feb. 16 with my fellow writers J. Marshall Freeman and ’Nathan Burgoine for the virtual launch of our YA book Three Left Turns to Nowhere. Presented by Left Bank Books and hosted by Shane Mullen, the event will stream on Facebook Live and YouTube at 7 p.m. Central Time. Holy cow, …
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OK, so I’m a little bit late this month with completing the Flash Fiction Draw writing prompt. And this year, as you’ll recall, Jeff Baker is in charge of the prompts. This month’s prompt was for a western, in the Tower of London, including artificial grass. Well, that’s a doozy. And as always, I took …
Who else threw their hat in the ring and wrote a story for this month's Flash Fiction Draw, you ask? Well, I'm glad you asked. Here are the folks who came up with a mystery, set in a highway tollbooth, featuring a ray gun: Guns and Roses by E H Timms Mystery of the Vanished …
Sliding into homeplate at the last possible moment (well, not the last possible, but still fairly late in the day), here is my story for the December 2021 Flash Fiction Draw. As you'll recall, our prompt was for a mystery, set in a highway tollbooth, and featuring a ray gun. I played fast and loose …
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As the song asks, how do you measure a year? If I measured it in stress, this year was slightly shorter than 2020, but only slightly. If I measured it in happiness, I'd say I'm pretty damn happy, all things considered. If we measured it in stories, this would be the 12th and final one …
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Let's pretend it's still Monday, shall we? (Although, let's not pretend to the point where it feels like we're reliving Monday because, oof, who would want to?) Anyway, we're pretending it's Monday so we can pretend I got this posted in time. (You may sense a running trend here lately.) In case you missed it …
OK, I'm late getting this posted today, so let's skip the preamble and get right to it. This month's prompt was for a fantasy, set on a spaceship, featuring a hairbrush. Fairy tales count as fantasy, right? Well, they do in this case. And if my spaceship from the Explorer Corps seems a little Starfleet-y, …