Today has been a very slow day. I’ve spent most of it giving the next issue of Scheherezade’s Bequest and the companion non-fiction articles of Cabinet des Fées a final check. Tomorrow I’ll finish the editorial and on Thursday, barring disaster, it will go live. Here in the studio, I’ve been continuing the cleaning/packing spree. […]

I know, it’s Thursday, but I’m still calling it Studio Tuesday so I can find these posts later when I want to check on my own progress. And I’m late again — my old friend bronchitis has paid a visit. So it goes. On the bright side, I’ve finished another in the fox series. This […]

Last week Studio Tuesday didn’t happen. I was unwell for most of the week, but more importantly, on Tuesday I was very busy trying to read Stardust to these two little imps by way of my new web cam. Meet Lydia and Logan, two of my legion of grandchildren. Lydia and I ended up seeing […]

Not so long ago I wrote about creative block and burn out. Ever since then I’ve been thinking about which of all my work feeds my soul the most, and what of that work I can fit into an already overloaded schedule. This piece below, from some years ago, is that type of work. This […]

Last week I said I’d be starting up a series on this blog called Studio Tuesday. Every Tuesday I’ll be putting up photographs and talking (or ranting) about what’s going on in the studio. It’s a good way to help me keep track of what’s happening, and hopefully it will be interesting for you, too. […]

So, here’s the thing. I’ve been mucking about in the speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, etc.) industry for about ten years now. I don’t really understand why this hasn’t happened already, but it has now and that’s the important thing. Allow me to introduce you to a new website, Versification, that does nothing but […]

Thanks to my friend Suze, who passed this along to me this morning, just when I needed it most. “it’s in the act of making things that we figure out who we are”