Category: News

  • Book City

    I sometimes get the feeling that we book people are citizens of a kind of portable municipality, a diffused city that reforms around various conventions, conferences, festivals, symposiums, and literary events. We’re united by the love of story, the feel of books, and the knowledge that vicarious experience can be as meaningful and real as…

  • The Portal Opens: GenCon Preview, Part 2

    The portal opens, and for one week the city changes, reality morphs, fantasy rules. The event is GenCon, the massive fantasy and science fiction gaming convention that takes over Indianapolis each August.  Attendance this year is projected to break past records, which were well beyond 40,000 attendees. Part of the event is the GenCon Writer’s…

  • GenCon Preview: Part 1

    If you plan on being one of the 40,000+ people attending GenCon in Indianapolis this summer, you’ll want to be sure to be a part of my reading with Paul Genesse, taking place at the GenCon Writer’s Symposium on Friday, August 16, at 5:00 PM. I’ll be reading a portion of “The Fourth Sign,” my…

  • 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…

  • Awaken Your Wonder: The Art of Vortex

    Since founding Fantasist Enterprises a dozen years ago, Will Horner has taken readers to the high seas (Sails and Sorcery), the heroic past (Blood and Devotion) the inner city (Modern Magic), and beyond. Promising to “Awaken Your Wonder,” FE has become a showcase for some of today’s top and up and coming writers. Some of…

  • 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…