Since Romney withdrew, I've probably heard about a dozen pundits and read at least that many columnists who have said that religious big...

A few months back, I said that Ron Paul was the first Republican candidate I could imagine voting for. He's still in the race, but stal...

To Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy everywhere, When you have something great, you want everyone to know. So you tell people about it....

Thursday I came down with a cold. I went to work that day, but have spent most of the time since flat on my back. My most annoying symptom...

Solaris has made Jeffrey Thomas's SF novel DEADSTOCK available as a free download to support the upcoming release of the second book in ...

It snowed today, the first decent snow this part of North Carolina has seen in two years. There was a little dusting of snow once last yea...

My short story "Silent as Dust" went live this week at Intergalactic Medicine Show. It's my own rather stange take on a ghost...

Last year when I moved in, I renovated a lot of rooms, but ran out of time and money before I could work on the bedroom. It was a pretty bl...

Another Christmas rolls around, and I find myself happy at the thought that, starting tomorrow, I can once again listen to the news or read ...

Ed Schubert has started producing his articles on writing now. Check out his Sideshow Freaks blog for a variety of interesting topics. I par...

I hope to update my blog soon! I've been in a real time crunch, getting the second draft of DRAGONFORGE onto paper. (Well, onto magnet...

Lisa Shearin is live with her second article about writing, You Gotta Want It Bad. From the article: Some authors are literal overnight succ...

Novelist Lisa Shearin has posted the first of her writing articles based on my challenge. She starts with an article on how to approach you...

In my last post, I challenged four other authors to blog about five things they've learned about writing. The first of these articles is...

Most fiction writers write alone. Sure, you might occasionally go out to a coffee shop with a laptop or a notepad and scribble down a few l...

This is perhaps the most presumptuous of these five essays. My first three articles were mostly a collection of writing techniques--build yo...

Momentum matters in two ways. First, momentum is important in drafting a story. Nothing has killed more of the stories I’ve started than sim...

This second bit of writing advice may also be obvious, but my personal experience tells me not everybody gets it. When I say that the best w...

This post may fall into the category of "pretty darn obvious." Still, I've been participating in writer's groups and criti...

I had a 12 hour drive back from World Fantasy and spent a good chunk of that time thinking about writing; not just my immediate projects, bu...