At Readercon a couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of being on a panel entitled, “The Catharsis of Myth, the Shock of Originality” (yes, that kind of title is typical of Readercon–that most literary of SF conventions).  The idea was to discuss the relationship of the original idea in fantasy with that of [...]

Welcome Deb Werksman, acquiring editor and editorial manager for Sourcebooks for the past eleven years, before which she had her own publishing company. She is the country’s foremost editor of Jane Austen sequels, and acquires single title romance in all subgenres, as well as historical and women’s fiction.  Sourcebooks is the country’s largest woman-owned independent [...]

WARNING: Spoiler alert if you’re one of the three people who hasn’t yet seen the movie SIXTH SENSE. Insights are unpredictable things, aren’t they? I just had one sitting here on my deck, drinking Tab and re-reading TO LOVE AND BE WISE by Josephine Tey. A lovely, sunny, breezy afternoon devoted to fluffing up brain [...]

As explained in my July 13th blog, “Writing Media Tie-In,” my July release, The Purifying Fire, was a different sort of project for me. One wherein Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns this intellectual property (i.e. the gaming character of fire mage Chandra Nalaar and the Multiverse setting of the popular fantasy game [...]