Singer in Rhunshan is now in its more or less final form, hovering around 16,000 words/75 pages. Too big for a short story now, but respectable for a novelette. It is a romantic fantasy action/adventure with discreet hints of a male/male/female love triangle (but no actual sex in this part of the story), and a…
Read More ‘Singer in Rhunshan’ novelette inches closer to publication…Okay, okay, there was the socially questionable and morally bankrupt comic book I wrote when I was maybe seven, but that didn’t last longer than fifteen minutes, a stern warning, and the ten feet to Mom’s shredder. It doesn’t count. Nor do the 130K of various fan fiction stories I’ve written over the years. What…
Read More My first real try at self-publishingTime to dig out an old but fun project, and subject it to public ridicule: Flame Banner, from 1995, rebuilt slightly in 2003. A very few people might have seen the early version of this hanging in the 1995 DragonCon art show (or maybe 1996, I don’t remember.) Dimensions: approx. 60 h” x 11 w”…
Read More Flame BannerFirst, y’all know what a revenge query is? Revenge queries are the boomerang query letters that a relatively seasoned (i.e. jaded) writer has lined up, to send out to new markets the same day that the first query comes back with a rejection letter. Rejections are a lot like band-aids, turns out – it’s better…
Read More More art I should not be doing.After playing with Bloodshadow for too damned long, I finally got a reasonable sketch of the main character Tel Girshanha. I might be using a version of this image as a cover, if I ever have to self-publish this crazy book. For anyone following the backstories in both Moro’s Price and ‘Saints and Heroes’ –…
Read More Sometimes I get it right