I’ll have more (likely a lot more) to talk about with this once it’s live, but for now I just wanted to pass along this press release. Thanks to Monica Valentinelli, Matt McElroy, and Jason Blair for helping me with this! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FR Press Announces Slices of Fate, the Collected Works of Author [...]
Last time, I talked about outlining the story. From there, I started on my shitty first draft. (Note: Get used to the word “shitty.” It comes up a lot.) To be clear, I intentionally call this a shitty first draft. That first draft is paralyzing — the act of pure creation is terrifying, and many [...]
One thing I haven’t done on my blog is go through the process of creating fiction, from start to finish. Since I’m in the middle of a short story, I thought it would be a good time to correct that oversight. This is my contribution to Tales of the Far West, an anthology for the [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about how publishing has been radically changing over the past few years. The past couple of days, though, I’ve been thinking about how reading have been changing as well. For a few years now, I’ve been using a site called GoodReads to track the books I read, and a [...]
It’s not often I get to work on a project and actually scoop the people I’m working with, but Mark Truman gave me permission to beat the drum ahead of time, so I’m doing so. See, Mark’s company (Magpie Games) is working on a Shakespearean role-playing game called The Play’s The Thing. They have a Kickstarter [...]
This is a special bonus, to celebrate the end of the “Tour de Holmes.” In 1924, Doyle wrote a special miniaturized book to be placed with in the Queens’ Dolls’ House, which he titled “How Watson Learned The Trick.” It is one of five known extracanonical works of Doyle, and one of the few that [...]
Sixty stories. Nine books. That’s a lot of reading to get through, and it’s a very small portion of the ink spilled over Sherlock Holmes outside of Doyle. So, which ones are the best? Well, in 1927, Doyle himself selected that he thought were the best of his short stories in an essay for Strand [...]