professional science fiction and dark fantasy writer
In an old writing group we had an ongoing joke you never "arrived" until you wrote an Elvis story. Many members did, I did not. The same sort of thing might be said of westerns, but with Doc Holliday. This consumptive blue-eyed killer continues to generate stories, ideas, and unverifiable legends. I got to thinking. …
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My new Haxan story "Talitha Koum" is scheduled to be published by Frontier Tales in June of this year. I am looking forward to this. It's a "Magra" story more than anything else, and though written from Marwood's perspective, it's mostly about her. We learn more about her early life and especially her mother, Black …
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Last night I checked out the DFW Writers' Workshop. It's in Euless so this place isn't around the corner from me. They host the DFW Conference every year which is a pretty big writers' conference in the southwest. Dues aren't too bad for the workshop, $100 a year, and they meet four times a month. …
This weekend I wrote a book review and sent it off to an online magazine for approval. It was the first new thing I have written since last November. I've worked on edits and rewrites for Haxan and Quaternity at the request of CZP and that went pretty well. So it's not like I have …
