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Sinister Appetites & Dark Discoveries
I’ve been a fan of the stories of Robert Aickman since I first discovered them in the pages to F&SF in the 1976 and then went on to savor his collections Cold Hand in Mine, The Wine Dark Sea, and...
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Who Says You Can’t Repeat the Past?
The good people at PARSEC, Pittsburgh premier science fiction organization, have posted the audio of my April 11 presentation “Dreams, Memory, and Time Travel.” It’s the first in what I understand will...
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Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places
“The whole matter is very fully and lucidly discussed in my forthcoming volume upon the earth, which I may describe with all due modesty as one of the epoch-making books of the world’s history.” –...
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From “Starry Nights” to “Life’s Adventures” Story Night Rocks!
In the recent posts “Storytelling Night” and “The Stars Came Out,” I endeavored to cover last week’s “Starry Nights and Celestial Conversations,” which had far more highlights than can be covered in...
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Researching a Novel: My Lost World
Rain forests, deserts, volcanic mountains, green-sand beaches. They’re all part of the alien landscape of a novel project that links and expands my novelettes “Daughters of Prime” and “The Others”...
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Researching a Novel: Trekking the Rain Forest
The untouched or virgin rain forest was called primary jungle. Primary jungle was what most people thought of when they thought of rain forests: huge hardwood trees, mahogany and teak and ebony, and...
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This Week @ KGB: We’ll Take Manhattan
Trust me, you won’t want to miss this month’s installment of Fantastic Fiction at the KGB. The place has been named the best literary venue in New York City by New York Magazine, the Village Voice,...
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Reading with Tom Monteleone: A Night of Fantastic Fiction at KGB
We took Manhattan. This past Wednesday, my good friend Tom Monteleone and I performed for an enthusiastic crowd at New York’s KGB, the literary venue in the East Village that has become known as the...
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Hearing Voices:The Sound of Fantastic Fiction at KGB
Time travel is possible. Thanks to Gordon Linzner and Rajan Khanna, you can attend a growing list of past performances at Fantastic Fiction at KGB. The reading series is hosted by Ellen Datlow and...
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Fantasy Musician Martin Springett:Ready to be Reborn
Some cool news arrived today from fellow musician Martin Springett. It seems that one of his early albums The Gardening Club is going to be re-released by Space Wreck Records in 2016. This is cause for...
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From Page to Screen: A Story’s Journey
It’s the journey, not the destination. Emerson said something like that once. He might have been talking about screenwriting. The path that “Traumatic Descent” (a.k.a. “This Way to Egress”) has taken...
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From Page to Screen:Talking about Writing @ The Penguin
It all began with Robert A. Heinlein. Back in the 1940s, Heinlein gave what may well be the best writing advice ever given, a five step approach to achieving success as a spinner of tales. And last...
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Writer at Work:Out of the Stories and into the World
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. There’s a good reason for that. I’ve been working. I’ve always regarded blogging as a leisure activity, fun when there’s time for it, but readily set aside...
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Writer at Work:Santas, Wizards, & Life behind the Curtain
So it’s December 1997. I’m driving north out of Oakland, toward Bigelow Boulevard and downtown Pittsburgh. It’s a gray day, light snow falling. Colored lights trim some of the buildings along North...
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Writer at Work: Trusting the Process
There’s a scene in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Mystère Picasso, a 1956 documentary that shows the artist Pablo Picasso at work. The artist starts with random lines, splashes of color. There seems to be...
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Big Things Cooking in September:Milford Writers & Son of Monsterpalooza
Big things are brewing this month, with the Milford Readers and Writers Festival on the east coast and Son of Monsterpalooze on the west – both on the same weekend (September 15-17) and 3,000 miles...
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Looking Ahead:This Weekend at the Milford Festival
Sixty-four years ago, science fiction writers Virginia Kidd and James Blish moved to Milford, PA, into a home that they called Arrowhead. It was there that Virginia Kidd founded the first literary...
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Bi-Coastal Weekend: Stories & Nightmares
Writers do most their traveling at home. It’s inward travel, exploring memory and imagination in the creation of stories that might one day enter the real world as published stuff. But sometimes the...
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Genre is a State of Mind:Books and Authors @ In Your Write Mind
The genre stars came out on Saturday night for the latest installment of the In Your Write Mind book event – a massive gathering of science fiction, horror, fantasy, mystery, romance, and YA writers...
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It’s Official:Voices now in eBook from Fantasist Ent.
I’m back home, settling in after KGB and SHU. I wrote my posts on those events more quickly than usual, but they seem to be lucid (to me at least). Both book-related appearances offered an opportunity...
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