(Parts of this post originally appeared on my Google+ page and in the comments on Mike Reeves-McMillan's post on the report .) You ma...

I would like to begin this post with a disclaimer:  what will follow is unlikely to be pleasant; it will be filled with profanity and angry ...

I spend far too much time on Twitter , which means I read a lot of tweets from a lot of authors.  Some authors are great at interacting, car...

Back in August, The Guardian  posted a column by Liz Bury entitled " Why is self-publishing still scorned by literary awards? "  T...

Liz Bourke foisted this question upon me on Twitter using her profound ability of psychic suggestion and the promise of free alcohol.[1]  Th...

I'm currently writing a relatively far future military SF novel (or revolutionary military SF, since it involves revolution).  One thing...

On a recent episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester posited that based on the prefix "professional" in "profe...

"What is misery tourism?" you might ask.  At its most basic, "misery tourism" refers to the ways peoples from wealthy, u...

I think with all writing concepts, there are no simple answers.  Flashbacks are no different.  Just as you can ruin a book with poorly cons...

Recently, I've been reading Star Carrier Book One:  Earth Strike by Ian Douglas.  I was intrigued by the epic military SF setting and de...

While listening to SF Squeecast's discussion of Kameron Hurley's novel, God's War, I was struck by the suggestion that the novel...

I've had the pleasure to work with or receive criticism from a number of wonderful people.  Lyn Perry of Residential Aliens , for exampl...

Sam Sykes has a great post about how fantasy fans internalize the belief that the genre defaults to crap.  I implore you to read it.  It...

L. B. Gale has an interesting blog post entitled " Fantasy Writers:  What We're Up Against ," in which s/he profiles George R....

I asked on Google+ whether folks would be interested in this post.  A few people said they were, and so here I am telling you about why peop...

I've been following Mark Charan Newton's blog for some time now.  He's the author of Nights of Villjamur , City of Ruin , and Bo...

Earlier this week, I started writing a short story entitled "The Girl Who Flew on a Whale" as part of my WISB Podcast project .  T...

If you haven't heard, Booker Prize winner Penelop Lively, age 78, believes people who read books in electronic form are "bloodless ...

I've become interested in the last few months with the idea of intellectual ownership of written materials.  In part this is because of ...

Adam and I have made enormous progress on our collaborative story.  How much?  Day one ended at about 850 words, which is certainly nothing...