OTHER EARTH, OTHER STARS is now available for preorder! Wheeeeee! Many thanks to those who responded to my call for reviews. The first has come back, from Andrea Gilbey in England. Andrea warned me that she doesn’t like science fiction. In fact, this post could…
Mom isn’t a writer, although she should be: she comes up with some great story ideas, and she knows all the good tricks. When I was little, Mom was divorced with sole custody of me, working two jobs, no alimony, only $20 a month in…
I’m not talking about critique group groupthink, although that’s bad. If you pick up an anthology by a critique group and all the stories sound like they were written by the same person, you know that group is dysfunctional. The purpose of a writing group…
