Today my editor and I were swapping our Madeleine L’Engle stories, and it occurs to me this is something worth blogging about. I met Madeleine on three different occasions. The first two were at the Blooming Grove Writers’ Conferences in … Continue reading
Because of my book Dragonfly–okay, and because of stories such as “The Bone Man”–I’m sometimes considered a horror writer. As such, the editors of Erebos: Journal of the New Darkness asked me, not long ago, to write a piece for … Continue reading
Writers tend to love their tools. As a kid, I wrote with a certain type of very soft-leaded mechanical pencil. When my pages were stacked together, the graphite on them would smear, so that in time, the words became almost … Continue reading
“There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.” –Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist I’m about a third of the way into the extraordinary book quoted above. It was recommended to me by … Continue reading
….Toward the end of April 2008, and as the wind howled around my apartment, splattering the windows with rain, I was up much too late, making my first foray into the realm of Blog. So far, so good–the image at … Continue reading