Two New Stories Published
My story, “Corpse Vision,” which initially appeared in Baen’s Universe is now available in The Best Paranormal Crime Stories Ever Told edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers. You should be...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: February 2011
I got a lot of reading done in February, and I’m not sure how. I was writing every minute I could and I also co-taught a workshop with Dean, Denise Little, and John Helfers. Did lots of reading...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: The Bad Book
This week, I finished reading a bad book by one of my favorite authors. Well, “finished reading” isn’t accurate. “Paged through the last half” is probably better. The book was astoundingly bad. The...
View ArticleFiction River News!
Fiction River #2 will be coming out in about a month. I can share both the final cover for the trade paper and the list of names in the volume. John Helfers did a fantastic job editing this issue. It’s...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: Social Media (Discoverability Part 10)
As I got deep into this discoverability series, I promised that I would examine marketing strategies from passive to active. I have to abandon that promise now, because most everything we’ll discuss...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: With A Little Help From My Friends (Discoverability Part 11)
When we set up the anthology workshop that we held last week, Dean Wesley Smith told everyone that they would have a great opportunity to network. After all, 50 professional writers whose work runs the...
View ArticleRecommended Reading List: February 2014
I read 250 manuscripts by professional writers this month. All of the stories were good. Some fit anthologies better than others. We held a writing workshop where six of us edited for Fiction River....
View ArticleA New Short Story, A Disaster, and Cat Pictures
Okay…I only added the cat pictures to get your attention. They say (whoever “they” are) that cats make people come to your blog. So here you go: Sir Duke feigning indifference Sir Galahad of Kitten...
View ArticleBargains, Short Stories, and the Final Interim Fate
Oh, my goodness. I’ve been off-line longer than I wanted to. A few health issues will do that to you, but I’m on the mend. I’m still a bit slow answering things, but I hope to rectify all that. Of...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Serious Writer Voice
I’ve been doing a lot of editing this past year. I’ve edited a collection of women in science fiction stories for Baen Books called Women of Futures Past, after I couldn’t find my favorite stories...
View ArticleA Year of Year’s Bests
I am having a wonderful, marvelous, totally nifty year. Or maybe I had that year in 2015. Hard to say, really. Just depends on how you look at things. Here’s what I mean. My novella, “Inhuman Garbage,”...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: February 2011
I got a lot of reading done in February, and I’m not sure how. I was writing every minute I could and I also co-taught a workshop with Dean, Denise Little, and John Helfers. Did lots of reading...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: The Bad Book
This week, I finished reading a bad book by one of my favorite authors. Well, “finished reading” isn’t accurate. “Paged through the last half” is probably better. The book was astoundingly bad. The...
View ArticleFiction River News!
Fiction River #2 will be coming out in about a month. I can share both the final cover for the trade paper and the list of names in the volume. John Helfers did a fantastic job editing this issue. It’s...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: Social Media (Discoverability Part 10)
As I got deep into this discoverability series, I promised that I would examine marketing strategies from passive to active. I have to abandon that promise now, because most everything we’ll discuss...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: With A Little Help From My Friends (Discoverability Part 11)
When we set up the anthology workshop that we held last week, Dean Wesley Smith told everyone that they would have a great opportunity to network. After all, 50 professional writers whose work runs the...
View ArticleRecommended Reading List: February 2014
I read 250 manuscripts by professional writers this month. All of the stories were good. Some fit anthologies better than others. We held a writing workshop where six of us edited for Fiction River....
View ArticleA New Short Story, A Disaster, and Cat Pictures
Okay…I only added the cat pictures to get your attention. They say (whoever “they” are) that cats make people come to your blog. So here you go: Sir Duke feigning indifference Sir Galahad of Kitten...
View ArticleBargains, Short Stories, and the Final Interim Fate
Oh, my goodness. I’ve been off-line longer than I wanted to. A few health issues will do that to you, but I’m on the mend. I’m still a bit slow answering things, but I hope to rectify all that. Of...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Serious Writer Voice
I’ve been doing a lot of editing this past year. I’ve edited a collection of women in science fiction stories for Baen Books called Women of Futures Past, after I couldn’t find my favorite stories...
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