Acci­den­tally cribbed a lit­tle list down last night, of books I’d some­how, embarass­ingly, to my own detri­ment, not got around to read­ing in 2008. No excuses, really. I mean, as usual, I read just a whole tower of nov­els, but I couldn’t even start to say how many or what they were. Had never considered […]

At least accord­ing to me. But, I don’t know, every­where I click, peo­ple are past­ing their best-of lists on-line. Feel all remiss if I don’t play along just a lit­tle. How­ever, real­iz­ing that, now that I actu­ally live close to a the­atre, and to all kinds of oppor­tu­ni­ties in Den­ver, I’ve been some­how going to […]

Which is the title of a story of mine, just up in Grok.

Doing a read­ing today, a Dead Authors thing, where we all take turns read­ing stuff from writ­ers who died this year. I’ve got David Fos­ter Wal­lace, and’ll of course be doing the aloud thing to some Infi­nite Jest. Too, it was cool: I wrote a friend, asked him what I should read, and one of […]

Can’t imag­ine what chance I really have here, against who-all I’m up against, but “Captain’s Lament” (from Clarkesworld) is short­listed for a Black Quill over at Dark­scribe. Reg­is­ter and vote? Not nec­es­sar­ily for me, but, y’know, for the best story. As for links for oth­ers : –Paul Tremblay’s “The Blog at the End of the […]

New story up over there, “These Amber Waves of Grain”. Good com­pany. I wrote it the same sit­ting almost with that “‘Tis the Sea­son,” in Pas­sages North. And with one I always for­get to try to get pub­lished, about an archery acci­dent / nip­ple­botomy (or, not –botomy, yeah, but I don’t know the right-sounding suffix […]