I just wanted to throw a shout out to my pal Mykle Hansen, whose book, Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! is soon to be released by Afterbirth Press. He’s been podcasting the chapters here, so go take a listen, because Mykle is a remarkable reader, and he’s recording the chapters at our friend Chet [...]

Once again, National Novel Writing Month hovers at the horizon like a plague of locusts. Having quit my job to write full time, I am looking forward to it with a sense of daring. The Inspector was written in 2004 during NaNoWriMo and a period of unemployment. With my growing abilities as a novelist (okay, [...]

Perverts of the world, unite! The Cylons threaten. You could certainly argue that I spend far, far too much time alone in my dark apartment, but as I watched DVD after DVD of Battlestar Galactica’s first two seasons, I was struck by a major continuity flaw… major, at least, for anyone not trapped in puritanical sexual [...]