Daniel Rabuzzi & Kit Reed We had a blast Wednesday with Kit Reed & Daniel Rabuzzi.  Kit read from”The Legend of Troop 13″ about feral girl scouts in the woods, while Daniel read excerpts from The Indigo Pheasant and Choir Boats.  Ellen’s photos of the night can be viewed here. Source Article from http://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/2013/05/17/photos-from-may-15th-with-kit-reed-daniel-rabuzzi/ Source [...]

I’m pretty excited about finally getting to see Star Trek Into Darkness tomorrow night. I’ve been dodging internet spoilers like it’s my job, and I’m one of the devout Star Trek fans who really digs J.J. Abrams’ take on the franchise. It doesn’t take a lot to please me: Give me time travel, alternate timelines, and [...]

Realizing Your Creative Life is having me back for a post on 7 Strategies to Keep Your Artistic Sanity. A lot of these I didn’t realize I did until brainstorming on the G – nothing like musing on “hmmm, what IS my creative process?” to brighten up a sloggy train ride. Which leads to Secret [...]

Small-town misfit Trisha Bell is awakened from her grave by mysterious forces, and there are only two people in the whole world she needs to see: her also-undead greaser boyfriend Sammy, and her still-alive derbygirl best friend Soraya. Sammy joins Trisha in gleefully turning the tables on the small-minded locals, but Soraya is all alone [...]

I have a couple of appearances lined up this month: May the 4th Be With You First, if you’re anywhere near Rosemont, PA, come to the Rosemont Book Festival this Saturday, May 4. The first annual book festival at Rosemont College will be held at Connelly Green and in the library with workshops, readings, panels, [...]

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Kit Reed has two new books this season: Son of Destruction, her spontaneous human combustion novel, and a “best of” collection from the Wesleyan University Press: The Story Until Now– A Great Big Book of Stories, 35 short stories ranging from [...]

Richard Bowes & Alaya Dawn Johnson On Wednesday we had the pleasure of hearing two talented authors read for us.  Alaya Dawn Johnson read from her new YA novel, The Summer Prince. And Richard Bowed read “The Queen and the Cambion” from his new collection, The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others. Ellen’s photos [...]

So I have an upcoming guest post for Realizing Your Creative Life that talks about ways to preserve your artistic sanity. Consider today’s post a pre-addendum – watching B-movies. It can be both creatively helpful and loads of fun to break the notorious block of Flawless Brilliant Craft, Always by watching lots and lots of [...]

I’m happy to announce that Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com have “Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War” up for preorder, which includes my story “Spectral Drums”. The full table of contents, which includes many authors I proud to be published with, is below: “Raw Recruits” by Will Ludwigsen “The Swell of [...]

As I mentioned in my post this week at the League of Extraordinary Writers, today is World Amateur Radio Day. I hope all you hammies are taking to the airwaves and celebrating in style! The Kim family’s old ham radio ended up being a much bigger plot point in Quantum Coin than I’d originally planned, [...]