In which I read (and perish)

by | May 25, 2011 | Blog Archive, News

First: my appearance at the Chiaroscuro Reading Series back in January.  I read Chapter 1 of The Pattern Scars – because I always fear that I’ll ramble if I decide to read from, say, Chapter 5 and need to set things up for the audience first. Peter Watts...

Opening the Shoe Box (A Letter to my First Agent)

by | May 16, 2011 | Blog Archive, News

Dear Jeff, It’s been years. Six, to be exact. I wasn’t much of a catch, in 2000. I was an unpublished author who presented you with a first novel that was long on semi-coloned, polyhyphenated-adjectival lyricism and short on plot. You took a pretty gigantic leap of...

The Fear of Blog

by | May 12, 2011 | Blog Archive

This is my new website.  It’s lovely.  I very much enjoy looking at it.  If it could float in virtual space, as-is, for all time, without my having to lift a cursor-finger to it, I would be absolutely delighted.  But no.  I have to write stuff, now that it’s here.  I...