Skillset
My story Skillset just came out in WyldBlood Science Fiction & Fantasy #13. Wyldblood is a UK-based SFF magazine. It is also available from Amazon. Skillset is a story about a man who can permanently take skills from other people–although …
Category: Writing
Skin Deep – The Audio Book!
My story Skin Deep came out about a year ago in Kevin J. Anderson’s Gilded Glass Anthology. At the time there was talk about do audio recordings of some of the stories. For various and sundry reasons, this took rather …
Deos Amnis
Seems like it’s been a while since I’ve been able to write about anything new coming out, but just got notified about the release of my story Deos Amnis in The Nameless Songs of Zadok Allen & Other Things That …
Interviewed about Story and Writing
I have a story coming out in a month or so called Judgement in an anthology called Apologue of the Immortals. (An Apologue, for those who haven’t swallowed the OED, is a moral fable.) Anyway, I was interviewed by the …
Art Imitates Life
A few months ago I sold a story called Second-Hand Eyes. The premise was that implanted medical equipment (in this case, eyes) could stop being supported and leave users out of luck. I thought I was being cleverly futuristic. But …
Swapping Up
My story Swapping Up just came out today in Particular Passages 4. (For some reason the link for the ebook is different. It will hopefully fix itself). This is a quirky story of which I am very fond. (Am I …
In Defense of Lending Books
I went to a writing conference this weekend and really enjoyed it. I met some fun and interesting people, learned a bunch of stuff, and also got several ideas for several of my ongoing projects. But there were a couple …
Bit Parts in Print
We are currently on vacation, so I haven’t been staying quite on-top of things as usual (so, below an already low bar). Anyway, I just found out that my story Bit Parts has come out in print in a best-of …
Jacked-In the Beanstalk
Way back in 2020, there was a weird thing happening–people all over America were receiving unsolicited packages of seeds. No one was sure exactly what was going on with this, but the consensus was that the seeds were being shipped …
Second-Hand Eyes
My story Second-Hand Eyes was just published by Flash In A Flash. FiaF is not a traditional publication–they send out stories to all of their subscribers a couple of times a week. They’ve used a couple of my other stories …