Monthly Archives: July 2005

There’s an old story, perhaps apocryphal, about James Joyce, wherein a friend asked him how his work was going. Joyce, in obvious distress, confessed to having written seven words that day. The friend responds, “That’s good, at least for you.” … Continue reading →

I’ve known this for a couple of weeks, but didn’t want to say anything until the table of contents was officially released. My story “One of Those Weeks” was selected for the new Best of Borderlands 1-5, a trade paperback … Continue reading →

NECON. How does I even begin to talk about the blur that has been the last four or five days? The trip started out with a hellishly early flight, and I was so bleary that I forgot my cell phone … Continue reading →

Tomorrow morning I leave for NECON. Those 6:30 am flights always seem like a good idea when I book them, but when the day comes around and I realize I have to get up at 4 am…not so good. The … Continue reading →

Way back in May I posted about the packet of seeds that came in Tori Amos’ CD The Beekeeper. I planted them in a clay pot and have diligently kept them watered throughout the driest June in recorded history in … Continue reading →

It might actually rain again! On the other hand, the heat index ranged between 105 and 109. Heat Index is sorta the inverse of wind chill — it shows how hot if feels when you take the physical thermometer reading … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a bitch of a day, don’t you think? The news that greeted me when I got up to start writing was the passing of one of my favorite authors, Evan Hunter, also known as Ed McBain. Our shelves … Continue reading →

A saying common among writers is that you sometimes have to kill your children, which means that sometimes on revising a work you have to remove or change things that you really like. Perhaps it’s especially because you really like … Continue reading →