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  • Upcoming Appearances

    September 24, 3:00 PM Eljay’s Books 3233 West Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15216 I’m really looking forward to this one. It’s my penultimate event for 2011, winding down a tour of eight states that started with the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando this past spring and concluding next month with World Fantasy…

  • New Release: Gaslight Arcanum

    Sherlock Holmes plunges from Reichenbach Falls and wakes to find himself in the care of a mysterious inventor with a terrible secret in my new dark mystery story “The Executioner,” out now in Gaslight Arcanum, the third in a series of Holmes anthologies from Charles Prepolec, Jeff Campbell, and the good people at Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy.…

  • 2011 World Fantasy Awards Ballot

    The World Fantasy Convention 2011 will be held October 27-30 in San Diego, California. Judges are Andrew Hook, Sascha Mamczak, Mark Rich, Sean Wallace, and Kim Wilkins Life Achievement winner Peter S. Beagle winner Angélica Gorodischer Novel Lauren Beukes, Zoo City (Jacana (South Africa)/Angry Robot) N K Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, (Orbit) Graham Joyce,…

  • Upcoming Appearances

    August 26-28 Context 24 The Doubletree Hotel 175 Hutchinson Columbus, OH 43235 I’ll be presenting the following workshops. Some seats still remain. Please join us if you’re interested. Should be a terrific time! Friday, August 26 6pm-7:30pm – Building Narrative Tension Regardless of the genre (SF, fantasy, or horror), narrative tension is crucial to a…

  • Book Miles: GenCon & Beyond

    I’m back from GenCon. This year the con at large attracted well over 30,000 paid members, with its con-within-a-con The GenCon Writer’s Symposium bringing in nearly 3,000 attendees for its 77 scheduled panels, readings, and workshops. Read the complete blog post at The 21st Century Scop.

  • New Blog Post: The Writer & Social Media

    What’s the first thing a writer should do to begin building a presence in social media? This summer I’ve moderated two panels on social media, the first at last month’s Bram Stoker Weekend in New York, the second this month at Confluence in Pittsburgh. Let’s try putting them together into a virtual panel, in which responses from…