Launch!

84 Harbord Ave.  Bakka-Phoenix Books.  Saturday, November 5, from 3–5:30(ish). I’ll be there, along with ChiZine Publications and Martin Springett, to mark the official debut of The Pattern Scars.  Come join us!  (There’ll be tarot card reading and...

A Book is Born

A cat is indifferent. I, however, am delirious. A plethora of thanks to Brett Savory for driving this precious copy through downtown rush-hour traffic so that I could hold it NOW. It’s beautiful.

Even to the Edge of Doom (or, C&P Get Married)

Your introduction to the events of Friday, August 19 is here: His Now mine. * Peter. Giant Squid. Your vows make it clear why I love you: your intellectual rigour, and your honesty, and your eloquence, and the way you leaven these with profanity – they’re...

In which I read (and perish)

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)

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 I was an unpublished author who presented you with a first novel that was long on semi-coloned, polyhyphenated-adjectival lyricism and short on plot.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...