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Thor and I continue our ramble among the ancient Roman sites threaded along the streets of Kos Town. Come walk with us! NOTE: Of course, Thor and I had to make another trip to Greece, as he’s fallen as much … Continue reading
Category Archives: Writers on Writing
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) One of the ways to think about the relationship between a made-up world and the real one is with the anthropological concept of a cultural sphere. The easiest way for … Continue reading
I’ve never sat down and counted all of my ghostwriting/editing clients. Every once in a while, when I go in to clean up my file folders, I realize that I’ve had more than I thought and that I’ve actually forgotten … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Toward the end of last week’s essay on pets, I talked about people keeping highly dangerous animals around (often with tragic results). The more intelligent version of this involves keeping … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) By now it cannot be a secret that I like small stories. These are stories where there might be a major cataclysm, catastrophe, war or other great event but that is backdrop. It might impact the story and … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) I mentioned before that there’s a difference between domesticating an animal and taming one — you can theoretically tame a great many creatures that are not domesticated at all. One … Continue reading
I have been a full time writer since 2005. During that time, I’ve penned eight original or shared-world novels, had five of them published and am working sporadically on a tenth book (well, and an eleventh and a twelfth . . … Continue reading
I love historical fiction, reading it and writing it. (See my bookstore page for two novels set in the 20th century.) Historicals can safely be fat books; I mean the grounding necessary in any novel where the world needs to … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) The Industrial Revolution changed a lot of things, but one of the aspects I’ve least often seen commented on is the change in our relationship with working animals. You may … Continue reading
While we’re confined by the pandemic, how about another virtual trip with me? Let me take you back in time and place to inspiration for my novel ISLANDS. A lot of “life” happened this week, so today I’ll take you on … Continue reading