On being purple
Nabokov calls them “bravura passages.” Somebody else somewhere else says “tours-de-force,” which is French for “feats of strength.” Same thing. The “purple patc...
Author: TMW
Soundtrack (II)
I got a $50 iTunes card for my birthday. (Thanks, Dad!) Amazingly, I did not buy any Stravinsky this time. But I did buy: Pierre Boulez. Le marteau sans maître....
Capacious: In defense of digression
Literature is capacious; it enfolds multitudes. (It unfolds multitudes.) And if, indeed, one aspires to depict the world (c.f. mimesis), how could lengthy digre...
Not dead yet
No, I am not dead yet. I can’t blame anyone for thinking so. (Did anyone wonder? or notice?—likely not.) In the traditional first-blog-post-after-a-long-h...
Notes & sources (III)
So did you read it? Of course I’m talking about the new story in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and now I’m here to tell you all about where it came from and whatnot....
George & Frank Tarr, Boy Avencherers, in ’Beeyon the Shours We Knowe!!!!’
Like most writers, I suspect, the last piece I finished is always my favorite. So it’s great to announce that my favorite story, “George & Frank Tarr, Boy A...
Balticon 50
I’m going to Balticon on Memorial Day weekend. Are you? I’ll be presenting a workshop: Typography: Beyond Microsoft Word and CreateSpace templates (...
Notes & sources (II)
Well! And so there it is. A new story. Unlike most stories, which need at most a short headnote, what this one really wants is a bibliography. And an apparatus ...
“Or I Wil Harrie Them Out of This Land”
My new story, “‘Or I Will Harrie Them Out of This Land'” (yes, the double + single quotation marks are correct) is available today at Beneath ...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
It’s time again for that most pleasant of tasks: announcing the publication of a new story. A new historical fantasy, “‘Or I Wil Harrie Them O...