David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

On the Fifth Day

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

Urban Shaman

Evolution of the Novel Part 3

For the past 3 weeks I’ve been posting on the evolution of voice and genre, as shown in the WIP, written (and still being rewritten) by Tiffany (Tiff), a writer I have been working with for 2 or 3 years. With Tiff’s permission, I told her story and how she found a narrator’s voice and [...]

A Luddite Looks at the Future of Books

Back in the early 1980s, when I first heard about compact discs, I swore that I would never give up my beloved vinyl records. (–sigh– Kids, ask your parents if you don’t understand what I’m talking about.)  I had a good-sized collection of LPs that included what were called “audiophile” pressings — Original Master Recordings [...]

What We Bring to the Books We Read: The Writer and the Reader, part III

Recently, Elizabeth Moon, a multiple-award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy — her works include the Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy, the Vatta’s War series, and the Serrano Legacy series — described in an email the experience of having a reader contact her about how one of her books had changed this reader’s life. The [...]

A Creative Covenant: The Writer and the Reader, part II

Today, I continue my series of posts on the relationship between writer and reader.  I don’t intend any of this to be prescriptive — in other words, I’m not trying to tell anyone how to write his or her books, and I’m certainly not telling anyone how to read a book, or more specifically, my [...]

Story Time

As Faith mentioned yesterday, David and I will be appearing at Ravencon this weekend. I’m not particularly introverted or quiet – heck, I tend to be the goof in the room more often than not. And this is not a huge con – it’s small and charming and I’ll be surrounded by lots [...]

What Was This Book About Again?

I just finished reading a book by a well-known (though not very prolific) author of … I guess you’d call his work ‘police procedural’. His genre was a bit new and unusual, something no one had tried before; luckily for him, it worked. Oh man, did it ever work! I’d read the [...]