People who want a writing career, here’s a thing you should know: You’re always driving very fast toward a very high cliff. Not toward the wall at the bottom, but rather, rocketing toward the edge at the top. The precipice. What I mean is this: You get published with your first book, right? And it’s […]
TA-DA, look, a macro photo. My obligation is fulfilled and now I jetpack away! OKAY FINE, some quick bits — First, I’ve no idea what kind of bug that is? Some kind of leafhopper treehopper thing. Speaking of which, holy shit are we inundated with lanternflies now — they’re an invasive asshole bug and we […]
So maybe you remember in the halcyon salad days of Summer 2017, one mister Sam Sykes and one mister, uhh, well, me, we got on The Twitters and we did an improvised horror story, kind of a riff on a slasher film, but in Twitter format. Shitposting, the kids call it! (“Sam Sykes and Chuck Wendig Just […]
Pulp. Grindhouse. Exploitation. These words conjure images of explosions, gritty streets, and events that defy the laws of logic and physics. One might pass an eye over the covers of books and films in this style and immediately assume that they are mindless forms of entertainment at best and absolute trash at worst. I’m here […]
It’s like Law & Order, but with witchcraft. Rachel Collins isn’t sure sarcasm is an actual method of self-defense, but she keeps testing the theory. On paper, she’s an agent for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, but in reality, she’s a ley witch, and as a deputy working for the High Council of Witches, it’s her job […]
Amber Fallon has edited a new all-women-author anthology, and here she talks about the impetus for where it comes from: * * * Gather round, humans and nonhuman entities. For I want to tell you all a tale. A tale of how much it can suck sometimes to be a woman, especially one trying to […]