Category: Appearances

  • GoingLIVE with the 21st-Century Scop

    Fiction, art, and the pending release of Vortex: Book Three of the Veins Cycle — those are just some of the things publisher Will Horner and I talked about in our recent interview on FCTV. The episode was conducted in conjunction with Seton Hill University and the In Your Write Mind Workshops that we both…

  • Time Management for Writers

    Writing is all about anticipation. A writer spends months writing a book that might see publication in a year, might garner good reviews sometime after that, and eventually – over the course of a decade – might contribute to a body of work that will define a career. It is, as fantasy author Jim C.…

  • The Shape of Things Come

    Wearable tech, near-planet colonization, computer-assisted telepathy – the future looks amazing, so why aren’t more people writing about it? In a literary scene dominated by backward-looking steampunk and pessimistic dystopia, isn’t it time for some forward-looking, problem-solving science fiction. Last Thursday, during the summer residency at Seton Hill University’s graduate program in Writing Popular Fiction,…

  • Fantastic Fiction at the KGB

    “Admission is free, drinks are cheap and strong, and the level of excellence is such that KGB has been named best literary venue in New York City by New York Magazine, the Village Voice, and everyone else who bestows these awards of recognition.” That description is right from the source, Denis Woyochuk, co-founder and president…

  • Writing Popular Fiction @ SHU

    I’ll soon be heading out to my twice-a-year residency at Seaton Hill University. This term I’ll be speaking about Current Trends in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (January 6) and The Art of Revision (January 9). Full report coming soon! 

  • Twilight Zone Magazine Remembered: Then & Now @ WFC 2012

    Last Thursday I returned to the Twilight Zone. But I didn’t go alone. Also along for the journey were Scott Edelman, Nancy Baker, Darrell Schweitzer, and Elizabeth Hand – fellow contributors to Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine, the legendary publication that dominated the fantasy landscape in the 1980s Christopher Roden of Ash-Tree Press introduced our panel at…