“You know,” I said to Gwen between the snores of some guy I didn’t know, “I wasn’t always a literary celebrity.” She sat next to me on the balcony painting her nails for the fourth time that night. Well, morning now—we’d been awake all night again. Staccato,...
It was the pounding of it, more than its liquidity, that demanded my attention, but the rain was sufficiently wet to soak me from head to toe in less than a minute. It wasn’t unusual to get “lightning-raid” storms at this time of year, usually around eight in the...
On December 1st, we’ll be releasing our latest ebook — Richard Currey’s The Wars of Heaven, bringing this stunning collection of short stories back into print (virtually speaking) for the first time since 1999. I wrote about this project earlier, and...
Chocolá can be reached by traveling from Guatemala City along a labyrinthine network of mountain roads leading to a region neither exactly in the highlands nor exactly in the lowlands known to archaeologists as the “Southern Maya Zone.” It is a real place. I have been...
When Joe Schuster contacted me about his new release, The Might Have Been, it was a much needed kick in the pants to get on here and talk about the plans for the next SFWP Awards Program. Chapter one of The Might Have Been can be found right here, and here’s a...
