The brilliant and bizarre Mykle Hansen gives you really rotten advice about bears. Even Sarah Palin knows better! Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! from mykle hansen on Vimeo. Book trailer by Danny Norton. Buy Mykle’s book from Eraserhead Press.

No, really. Why? What qualifies as genuine motivation to expend so much energy telling stories, regardless of whether they are appreciated? Over the years, I find that my motivation to write has shifted, and when I become aware of that shift I experience a little crisis of faith. Losing one’s sense of purpose in an [...]

Heather signed me up for a novel-in-progress class at the Attic writer’s workshop when she signed up for a memoir class for herself. I should have declined; life is so hectic currently, and in the process of being simplified, that a new commitment would just evaporate right off my griddle. But the writing of novels [...]

I’m happy to report that The Bloodbaths is holding steady at number one on the Podiobooks Top Overall Rating charts. Not only that, but against stiff competition from Mur Lafferty, Scott Sigler, J.C. Hutchins et al. This means that of all the myriad podcast novels on Podiobooks.com, The Bloodbaths is considered thus far to [...]

Author Steven Brust, known for the Vlad Taltos novels (which are very good fantasy novels, and that’s coming from me), has released a Creative Commons licensed Firefly fanfic novel, My Own Kind of Freedom. Why is this important, and not merely geeky? Because this is the first time I am aware of that a fairly major [...]