Every four years, during the Olympics, I find myself almost caring about sports.   (It’s not that I’m too good to be a sports fan or anything, I just don’t have a lot of time to be a fan of anything but good writing.) But now, as the great thundering $15 billion spectacle staggers towards its […]

Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing has made available a podcast interview that I and Nancy Kress gave at Taos Toolbox back in June, dealing mostly with the workshops. We are, as always, tremendous! There is an interesting interview with Michael J. Winegar first.  If you’re impatient to get to Nancy and me, we begin about thirty […]

“Always a godfather,” Gore Vidal regretted at a christening, “never a god.” Alas yes, he was mortal.  With him dies not only the last major writer of the World War II generation, but America’s last public intellectual. He wrote best-selling novels, he wrote brilliant essays, he wrote movies and television, he wrote Broadway plays.  He […]

Brig of War, aka The Raider, is now live at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. Please download and enjoy.  They are DRM-free, as are all my reissued ebooks. It was fascinating revisiting this book, which I haven’t read since I last corrected the proofs.  It was almost like discovering the writing of a stranger.  […]