I've been doing a lot more posts about writing than about politics lately, which is natural since I'm deep inside the process of wri...

I'm turning today's blog post over Andy Remic, a fellow Solaris author with a truly dizzying array of books. Now, as if being an ama...

I'm releasing an anthology of my short fiction very soon to Kindle and Nook, and will be posting several articles about it over the next...

I’ve given a lot of advice on how to be a writer over the years, but today I’m going to give my absolute top bit of advice on how not to be ...

So, somehow I skipped a whole month without finding anything in politics to rant about. Primarily, this was due to my being distracted by wr...

This weekend, about every third editorial I read was about what can and should be done by government to promote the creation of more jobs. O...

The shooting of Gabriel Giffords has caused me to think about some of my basic assumptions. As a libertarian, I'm relatively pro-gun. I ...

These are the most important truths of writing I've learned to date. At various points in the past, I've posted all these rules in v...

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about an even more fundamental building block of writing, the words themselves. My musings were kicked ...

Unemployment among teenagers is sitting close to 24%. It's easy to shrug this off, since most teens live with their families and their l...

Roughly a decade ago, I stopped celebrating religious holidays like Easter and Christmas. It was really difficult to reconcile the celebrati...

Review The Exploration of Dangerous Places by Jonah Knight At Capclave a few weeks ago, I attended a late night ghost story gathering. A few...

I've said before that I'm essentially a nihilist on the question of whether life has any greater meaning. I reject that there is any...

Last Tuesday, I did something extremely unusual for me: I voted republican for my US congressman. Not that it did much good in my district; ...

This week it was announced that there will be no cost of living increase for social security recipients since inflation is essentially flat....

With the mid-term elections less than a month away, I'm starting to feel a building sense of doom. Our country is facing genuine problem...

Joseph Mallozzi has used his blog to spotlight the Masked anthology during September. He passed along a bunch of reader questions to the var...

So, there's apparently some preacher somewhere in the South who plans to have a Koran burning ceremony on September 11. (I could google ...

Last year, I did a series of posts called Ten Reasons to Believe in God . I dealt with the most frequent arguments I've heard for the ex...

For a couple of weeks, conservatives have been in outrage mode about plans for a Muslim mosque to be built in New York only a few blocks fro...