Longtime readers of this blog will remember Melissa Olson from our Indy Challenge blog swap. She’s visiting again to talk about her new novel, Trail of Dead, the follow-up to her debut, Dead Spots. At the end of the post, find out how to win a signed copy of Trail of Dead. ***** Hello, and welcome to my Trail of Dead … Read More
Writer’s Day #9: C2E2 report
In my latest Writer’s Day video, I share some of my experiences at C2E2 in Chicago, by far the biggest convention I’ve ever attended. [media url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oveGUEAME”]
Revealing a New Project: the Red Reaper
Back in November of 2009, I stumbled across a teaser trailer for the fantasy film, The Legend of the Red Reaper. It promised to be an action-adventure fantasy, and starred an actress I’d never heard of at the time, Tara Cardinal. As I watched the trailer, I realized that whatever the standard fantasy tropes on display, this was also something new and … Read More
Pictures from World Fantasy Convention 2010
A few pictures from World Fantasy. I was too busy to take very many, unfortunately. Me and my tablemate Travis Heerman, author of Heart of the Ronin, at the mass signing Saturday night. Me and Amelia Beamer, author of The Loving Dead (which I reviewed here). Amelia also interviewed me for Locus magazine. Me with Tom Doherty, head of Tor … Read More
If it’d been an Ellison, it woulda bit me
There’s an old bit of wisdom that says, roughly paraphrased, if you pick up a snake and it bites you, it’s not the snake’s fault. My wife is an avid science fiction reader, but she’s never been to an SF convention. When her favorite SF author Harlan Ellison was announced as the guest of honor for local convention MadCon, she … Read More
So, at last we meet…
One massive fringe benefit of teaching at the Wisconsin Writers Institute this past weekend was that I finally got to meet my agent Marlene Stringer in person. That’s right: although she’s been my agent for five years and listened patiently while I whined, kvetched, bitched and wheedled, we’ve never actually met. Now we have, and here’s the photo to prove … Read More
My WisCon schedule
If you’re attending WisCon 33 in Madison, WI this coming Memorial Day weekend, you can find me at the following: SATURDAY Panel: Where is the Goddess These Days? Sat 8:30 – 9:45AM in the Capitol A room. Rhianna Moore, Melodie Bolt, Catherine Anne Crowe and me. Description: Previous WisCons had many program items about Goddesses and Goddess spirituality. These have … Read More