I’ve been so busy that I almost missed telling you writers (and wannabe writers) about this sale that we’re running on WMG Teachable. We’ve bundled many of our online workshops together, and are offering the bundles at half off. Dean is adding more bundles every day on his website. To get the bundles, go to […]
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The author-preferred edition of The Wedding Ring has just appeared in paperback. Both editions of the story—the one that appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and the one I wrote first that is…um…racier?…(and edited with the digests in mind)—are in the volume, along with an essay explaining the story’s trajectory. This volume is good for […]
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…to writing this particular novella. I’m not even sure it was supposed to be a novella. (I kinda doubt it.) A book editor of mine, Lou Anders, asked me to take part in an anthology of his. Sideways in Crime is a really good anthology of alternate history crime stories. I was writing something else […]
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to teach an in-person novella class for years now, but I knew it would be both time and cost prohibitive. I love novellas and I love discussing them and I love reading them and writing them and… We tried a novella “workshop” kinda sorta after the in-person workshops. […]
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I had a spectacular week. I spent it in the company of fourteen very fine writers. They are all in the photo that accompanies this post, which was taken at the very end of the workshop. It was fun. I teach advanced level craft workshops in person about three times per year. The writers who […]
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I’m making some changes for 2024. As many of you know, I discontinued the weekly publishing blog about a month ago. I will continue to talk about publishing on my Patreon page, but probably in a more personal way. Then, because I felt the need to ramp up my fiction production after a really awful […]
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For a free audio version of this post, click here. When we started into the aftermath of Dean’s crash & burn, a dear friend reminded me that I only had so many spoons each day, and when I was out of spoons, I had to stop whatever I was doing and rest. She also reminded […]
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To Get A Free Audio Version of This Post, Click Here. In 2011, our close friend, Bill Trojan, died. His death wasn’t sudden—he had untreated diabetes—and yet his death was sudden. He literally keeled over at Worldcon in his room. The end, for him, in many ways was both swift and slow. Swift, in that […]
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If you would like a free audio version of this post, click here. A series of articles have appeared over the summer about the ways that the pandemic affected us as human beings. One of the most obvious is that people have forgotten how to behave in public. Vox did a long article on this, […]
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To Get a Free AI Audio Version of this blog, click here. Every time I complain about being too busy to get all of my work done, I toy with the idea of quitting school. I’m taking classes every spring and fall semester at UNLV. Dean tells me I don’t have to work hard at […]
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