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Me: This story I’m writing is missing something…

Friend: Fire elementals? Continue reading “The Difference Between Sci-Fi and Fantasy”

Twenty years ago today, I stayed up all night talking with my spouse about whether we could afford for me to quit the horrifyingly bad coffee shop job that I’d had for one day and instead write full-time.

We walked around Green Lake at dawn, and I dropped off my resignation letter at 6am. I haven’t quite written full-time during the twenty years since then, because I’ve also been parenting two kids, now sixteen and ten.

During the last twenty years, I’ve written: Continue reading “Twenty Years”

I don’t care about nit-picky factual differences, How I Met Your Mother and the song “Bus Stop” are the same story in different forms.

Whenever I speak to one of my cats by name, one of my other cats looks at me like I’ve committed a crime against them personally.

I’m up to the last Animorphs book, and oh my god, I can’t imagine how this would have messed with me if I’d read it at the age these things are aimed at.

I thought Martin the Warrior was a tough book at that age.

Me to DALL-E3: Great, but could you try again with no American flags, since these raptor/octopi are from Jupiter and not Earth?

DALLE-3: AMERICAN FLAGS EVERYWHERE

I’m working on a short story I planned and started nearly twenty years ago. As originally conceived, it was supposed to be a novel, but I gave up on it several times.

So every word I add is both so much more and so much less than I feel it ought to be… Continue reading “Unfinished Novel to Short Story Conversion”

I just saw someone bragging about how the nice thing about AI art is that when you see it, you’re free to be as mean as you want — that it’s an appropriate outlet for cruelty.

And really… takes like that really ought to make a person wonder, “Are we the villains?”

Me: struggles with writing a story for 20 years, never making real headway

Me: finally manages to write 3000 words of this ultra challenging story

Spouse: reads the words and says, “Oh, this is your version of Real Genius” Continue reading “That Wespirtech Story That Kept Eluding Me”

The first novel in our space opera horror series — Hell Moon by Mary E. Lowd — and the first volume of our Zooscape anthologies had a spectacular launch earlier this month at Furvana!

You can order your own copies in e-book or paperback form online.  We’re also looking into dealing at a couple of upcoming conventions. Continue reading “Now Available: Hell Moon & Zooscape Volume 1”