The Writing Process

by | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized

Australian science fiction writer AC Flory recently tagged me in a blog chain focusing on how writers write. Meeks, as her friends affectionately call her, is writing a series of books from an alien point of view, the first of which, Vokhtah, is out in e-book format....

ConFusion 2014

by | Jan 21, 2014 | Uncategorized

Pretty much a relaxicon for us — I wasn’t on the programming. They’d had a glut of authors volunteering this year, so they were full up by the time I volunteered (months ago, in what would have been plenty of time any other year, even). So, we pretty...

Pants Plotting

by | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized

I’m a seat-of-the-pants sort of writer. When I start a book, I have in mind a character, a situation, and a direction it’s going, but that’s usually all. After I wrote the first draft of The Fall, I had this idea: take a particular character from...

The Flattening of the Vuvuzela

by | Dec 14, 2013 | Uncategorized

The vuvuzela made the news in recent years when it began to give South African soccer enthusiasts hearing damage. For those who don’t want to follow the link, a vuvuzela is basically a plastic horn that plays one — just one — note. Loudly. This...