How to acknowledge the agenda your writing has and make it work for you and the good of the world — All art has an agenda. “All art has an agenda.” Some people say that like it’s a bad thing, but I’m here to tell you that it’s a feature, not a bug. Every piece of writing tells you something about the perspective or worldview of the author. Even the absence of “an agenda” is an…

BattleTech is huge but need not be intimidating If you’ve read the news lately, you’d know that BattleTech is one of the biggest names in tabletop gaming. It’s been going strong for almost 40 years and hasn’t stopped, and has had an impressive line of fiction to go alongside the game. For those not familiar, the world of…

Upbeat brass  and happiness veiling sorrow beneath the beat

You’ve held my heart in the palm of your hand, turned the bloody thing over, wondering what makes it beat like a watch whose second-hand makes the long, lonely distance around the face while the hour hand of your love inches by. Have you dropped it? Do discarded hearts beat…

For those of you who might be so inclined to nominate my work for any of the awards out there, here is a list of my work that is eligible from 2020. I have my novel, but most of the rest is short stories. There’s a poem in there, too. …

The heart’s a fickle mistress a thing of ice and fire. It bears a beating witness to all that you aspire. But hearts can twist suspicious and tie you up in wire. It burns a righteous fury, no reason to be found. It acts a solemn jury, and handcuffs you, spellbound. It rains tormented…

As every year, I’d like to go through and offer a place to check out the writing work I’ve been most proud of over the last year. 2020 hasn’t been the easiest year for anyone, and the same holds true of me. We’ve all been through a lot, but that…

Teleporting through dreams…

They say blood is thicker than water, but that’s not true. Some say the original idiom is much older than the current use of the term and it is the complete antithesis of the way the phrase is used today: “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water…