Last week I picked up my journal again, after nearly a year's hiatus. Journaling has always worked that way for me; I've had years where...

Happy New Year...slightly late and somewhat discombobulated, but I'm still here, and that's a thing, isn't it? This year I didn't make...

Summer is such a busy time in the garden, especially with regards to the vegetable patch. We've spent the last few weeks frantically...

For your reading pleasure: a story from way back in 2009, which now seems like another world entirely. This was my first paid pro sale,...

The Kickstarter for If This Goes On, an anthology of political fiction, is now Live! Contribute if you can (there are fantastic rewards...

This morning, I posted this photo on my personal Facebook page: And if you think it's hard to look at, imagine how it felt. The left side...

Fans of speculative short fiction now have access to tons of great stories from a wide range of wonderful authors (including me!). The...

Hello from the edge of Hell where we are not quite sitting in the grip of The Winter That Wouldn't Quit, though we do seem to have...

The latest of my occasional book reviews:

In this week's episode I head outdoors and in less than five minutes realize that I'm mysteriously covered in fire ants from head to toe....

Every year in spring I tend to let the garden go a little wild. While my neighbors are pulling out their lawnmowers to tame the quickly...

This kind of sums up the feel of the story I finished last night:

Thanks to Codex, the writers' group I belong to, I was able to write three shiny new pieces of flash fiction in January. All are...

Yikes, it's been a while. (Knock. Knock.) Anybody in there? Hello from the frozen wastelands of South Louisiana. Ok, let's start over....

I'm writing early today, before the whole house wakes up and the chaos reigns once more. Being pulled in a thousand directions lately....

A rare snow day yesterday, the first since we moved here five years ago, and the woods were as beautiful as I'd imagined them to be. It...

Now that Halloween is over, the weather down here in the wild wood will slowly become cooler (I hope) and rainier. No snow for us,...

As it's undoubtedly been the most anticipated episode of this season, I thought I'd start a new series of posts on book adaptations by...