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John R. Little’s The Gray Zone

Bad Moon Books has announced the August release of John R. Little’s The Gray Zone. Description: In 1984, Henry Davidson took the holiday of a lifetime, spending his summer in Aswan, Egypt. The trip changed his life in many ways, but when he swallowed a secret powder handed down from generation to generation, the biggest [...]

2009 Locus Award Winners

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of Locus Magazine’s annual readers’ poll, which was established in the early ’70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. Over the decades the Locus Awards have often drawn more voters than the Hugos and Nebulas combined. In recent years Locus Awards are presented at [...]

Derek Gunn’s The Estuary Released

Irish writer, Derek Gunn’s latest thriller, The Estuary, has been released by Permuted Press. According to the author, The Estuary is a fast-paced, horror adventure tale, about a desperate plan formulated in the darkest years of an evil empire, which now threatens to engulf the residents of a small community in Southern Ireland. “I’m delighted that [...]

Boohoo: My Life as a Ghost

A recent column by Wayne Allen Sallee used the G word – ghostwriting. It took me many years of writing before I figured out how to make a living from our craft – all you need do is write the words of people that can afford to employ you as a hired gun (writer). Oh, [...]

Whether Workshops

It’s a crazy world, writing workshops.  An industry of hope.  Not without precedence - nobody thinks twice about music school.  Dance school.  Art studios.  So why shouldn’t there be writing workshops?  I’ve mentioned some of my workshop experiences in past entries - ranging from academic  classes in college to evening adult-type classes at the New School [...]

Steve & Melanie Tem: HOW MUCH DO YOU NEED TO START?

Steve: So how much do you need to have in place before you start a piece of fiction? I’m mostly talking about short stories here, since I presume that before you begin a novel you’re going to want to have a pretty clear idea of what it’s about, who the characters are, and in [...]

Collecting Characters on the Road

My son and I are in Baltimore as I write this.  I set up a new office for my company here a while back, and since we just managed to get it connected to the corporate network, I’m here to iron out the kinks and get things running smoothly.  Bill is in training to do [...]

I AM NOT LOOKING FOR ME

Why do people treat books as mirrors? I recently came across a post by Elizabeth Bluemle at the Publisher’s Weekly site entitled “The New Literal Mind” (link to the full post, and comments that follow, given at the foot of this essay). Elizabeth writes, amongst other things: “I’ve noticed a strange trend among grandparents these [...]