Originally Published on Facebook 20 December 2016. A quarter of a century ago, one of the first editors to buy my fiction noted that my recent submissions had been feeling awfully “safe” — more professional, but timid, in a way my earliest stories had not been. The question: “When you wrote those first stories, were […]
The new Draiken story appears in the Jan/February 2018 ANALOG. Here, the first couple of pages: Reunited after years of separation, the two old enemies Draiken and Thorne somehow refrain from killing one another and instead take to traveling together. They are strange companions, neither strangers nor friends, occasional sex partners but not lovers. The […]
Originally published on Facebook 1 November 2017. Spare me your wholly uncomprehending generalizations about how people who like horror or crime fiction, who read or watch (or write) narratives about bad people, are doing so only because it feeds whatever inhuman or evil impulses they have. James M. Cain was not writing for an audience […]