Originally Published on Facebook 20 December 2016. A quarter of a century ago, one of the first editors to buy my fiction noted that my recent submissions had been feeling awfully “safe” — more professional, but timid, in a way my earliest stories had not been. The question: “When you wrote those first stories, were […]
For the life of me, I will never ever understand the whiny male bitches who get upset at female protagonists in action movies. And I’m not speaking from the point of view of ideology. I’m speaking as a lover of stories, a guy who both produces and consumes them. When Laurie Strode proved the one […]
Letter enclosed with a signed copy of the first Gustav Gloom novel sent to a young fan who had a slow start reading but was able to claim that book as the first… novel she had ever finished and loved. Dear ___________: Your teacher has told me that you loved the first Gustav Gloom book […]