I know. I know. Already I feel you pulling away. I sense you tensing up, like a flicked sphincter. You’re mad. I can see you’re mad. I get it, you have ideas, and ideas are the backbone of fiction, and dangit, you tell yourself, my ideas are very interesting, that guy doesn’t know. Except, I do know. […]
LOOK AT THE BIRD. It wishes you were a little mouse so it could gobble you right up. Lovingly, of course. It is, after all, the week of Valentine’s Day. (That’s a red-tailed hawk I caught hanging out in the trees above the shed; down the road I also found a black vulture just chilling […]
Looks like Del Rey is giving away two copies of Wanderers to folks — one on Twitter, and one on Instagram. All you gotta do is head over to Del Rey’s respective social media accounts and follow the guidelines to reply and maybe, just maybe, win yourself an early copy. You can find the giveaway on […]
There was a bit of a to-do yesterday on the ol’ Twitters about how artists and writers should follow their dreams with reckless abandon because life is short and you don’t have to play it safe so go quit your day job, so on and so forth. And I think there’s reason to see some value […]
Newsy newsy newwwwws, exchanging glances. Er, ahem, what I mean is, hey! It’s Friday and I’ve got some news nibblings for you, if you care to have ’em. The note is key. Hey, who’s the keynote speaker this year at DFWCon? *receives message* Oh hey, it’s me! June 22-23, I’ll be there, giving my dubious untruths […]
Being an author of books requires you to be a many-headed beast. Don’t get me wrong — it starts with one head, one neck, one breath weapon, and at that point you are a monster singularly-tasked with doing the one thing explicit in the title: you must author a motherfucking book. That’s your first job. Your […]