Seriously, folks: if you are among the many many people who are now seriously outraged by Neil Gaiman’s comments that you have to go to Clarion if you want to be a “real writer,” on the basis of his supposed “privilege,” then you need to get your sense of humor checked and your ability to […]
Now in the realm of nostalgia, this little essay posted on Facebook 4 January 2012, before I was allowed to provide any public plot details about my middle-grade Gustav Gloom series. Instead I let potential readers know what the books did NOT contain. It functions as a fine statement of personal fantasy-writing principles, and I’m […]
Originally published in separate posts on Facebook on January 2, 2013. Who’s nicer? Horror writers or science fiction writers? Well, there’s a very small percentage of self-published horror authors who are some of the most frightening human beings who have committed prose to print, because their interest is exclusively in the gore, to the exclusion of any […]