I tried and failed a few times to write this blog post; it’s been a tough year in many respects. But I felt that I was overlooking and taking a lot of things...

It is nearly two months since my mother died the day after my birthday. Many weeks since I flew to her funeral. Like so many who experience loss, it’s in the...

Wyvacon is a new convention in Wytheville, Virginia that I had the pleasure of attending the last weekend in July. I really enjoyed my fellow panelists and t...

It's a month later and part of me still can't believe that I went to the Locus Awards as a finalist co-editor for Best Anthology. I will always refer to THE ...

Sometimes when you’re working, you hit a wall. It’s a fragile time for creative work, because many artists abandon their work at this stage.

You can grieve the world that was—we are unlikely to get that back. But you must not give up.