Going to Ravencon

I’ll be at Ravencon the weekend of April 24-26 for anyone in the Richmond area. I’ll be on a couple of panels and will also have a book signing. Looking forward to discussing how to find a good workshop for up-and-coming writers, as well as all of the fun...

Happy Tiggerversary!

Six years ago today, I drove north to Wendy’s Feline Friends and picked up my orange boy. Yesterday, my friend Sarah took this amazing picture. I think I have a can of tuna in the closet. So it will be a very happy Tiggerversary for Tig and...

Making your mother cry

The questions that young writers ask the most are the ones that are probably the most difficult to answer. What does it take to be writer? How do you know if you’re any good? What, people wonder, is that special, magic ingredient that makes the difference...

Status Report

The writing is going well again. The holes in the middle of the book are starting to be filled in, and the buildup of the end chapters is, well, building up. Now I’m at the part where I discover what’s going to happen myself. It’s an interesting...

Canoples Investigation book review

I reviewed KC Sprayberry’s fantastic new series for teenage boys, Canoples Investigations Tackles Space Pirates (Volume 1). You can find the review on Goodreads or Amazon, but let me just say that I don’t normally read detective/mystery novels, and I could...