My novelette “Wolf Time” is now available for download on Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Smashwords.  And it’s a mere 99 cents!  What have you got to lose? There was a period of my career when my longer pieces were regularly spawning short fiction, and this is one of those stories.  When I finished Voice […]

I don’t know if you’ve ever had the pleasure of visiting Eastern Europe, but if you ever go, there are certain conventions that should be observed.  One of them being that at some point you have to go out and drink lots of vodka with the locals.  Lots of vodka.  Lots and lots of vodka. […]

So there’s this Internet meme of people posting their own homemade videos of themselves dancing to or otherwise enjoying Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy,” and there were six young Iranians who made a video and put it up on YouTube.  In part they did it to counter negative stereotypes about their country. “To tell the world […]

One of the “lost stories” I wrote ages ago has finally seen print!  (Seems like I’ve been reading from this one for years now.) It seems like decades ago that John Joseph Adams wrote to see if I’d contribute to an anthology of Weird West stories.  I’d never written a weird western before (“The Last […]