Over the course of my career I’ve published nearly a hundred pieces of short fiction.  When a novel is released, readers can find it in the bookstores for many months or years, but when a short story appears in a magazine, it’s gone in a month as soon as the next issue arrives. Now, with the advent of eBooks, I have the opportunity to make many of those short stories available again, featured in showcases.  Alien Landscapes contains my science fiction stories, Dark Labyrinth features horror and dark fantasy, and Fantastic Realms contains fantasy stories. I’ve written an introduction to...
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Over the past few years "May the Fourth" has become an unofficial Star Wars celebration day for fans everywhere. This year, Rebecca and I were invited as guests for an event at Wings Over the Rockies air & space museum in Denver. The Rocky Mountain Fan Force had set up the evening open to the public, a good time for costumed fans and those in more traditional street clothes. On exhibit at Wings Over the Rockies is a full-sized X-Wing fighter replica (complete with working control panels in the cockpit). The Rocky Mountain Fan Force arranged for both of us...
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It’s not often that an ad makes me realize how much the world has changed, but there it was on the back cover of Outside Magazine: the full back cover, the most prominent advertising space in the entire magazine…featuring the Kindle ebook reader, touting its light weight, long battery life, and storage capacity for thousands of books. Now, an ad for the Kindle isn’t such an extraordinary thing, but seeing it in a magazine devoted to hiking, backpacking, and the outdoors is what gave me pause.  Somebody was thinking.  It makes perfect sense: anyone on a days-long camping or backpacking...
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I just sold another story to Analog Magazine, "A Delicate Balance." No word on when it'll be published.  This will be approximately my tenth appearance in the magazine. When I was just starting out as a writer, Analog was like the holy grail to me. I had my list of short-story markets, and I submitted stories regularly to every magazine in the science fiction field, but Analog was special. Analog was the magazine that I actually read. I wrote so many stories, and submitted so many manuscripts, that I'm sure I pestered every editor at every magazine. But the editor...
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