It’s important to have a critique group. It’s also important that you don’t mistake a writing support group for a critique group. A critique group … well, they […]
Strange Critters and Appalachia
Strange Critters: Unusual Creatures of Appalachia will be coming out this winter from Woodland Press and includes my story “Brood”. And it’s going to have a fantastic cover […]
Undoing The Damage: Getting Over That Look About Certain Types of Writing
You know that look. The one where someone says the type of writing you don’t like. This one. What’s strange is that it’s the exact same reaction but […]
Dayton Metro Library’s Fall Writing Series Leading Up To NaNoWriMo
Every year leading up to NaNoWriMo the library here in town has a series of presentations from local authors. There’s some good ones this year: Poetry Workshop for […]
Sexism, Stupid Men, Naked Women On Sherlock, and Doctors Oh My!
Quick: which of these thirty second clips is sexist, and why? Okay, yeah, trick question. They both are – but one is arguably much more sexist than the […]
Do Whatever You Can To Foster Young Writers. They Are The Future. (And you get to see my early, early writing!)
Maurice Broaddus didn’t know what he stumbled into the week after Mo*Con. He sent me an e-mail asking if I could help with the layout of a special […]