Tea and Monsters
Point of Sighs was the last book that Lisa and I were able to talk about before her illness meant putting aside creative work. We knew we wanted to look at Astreiant’s tea trade, and…
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Horses for Courses
Lisa and I started plotting Fairs’ Point before she got sick, and part of the fun for Lisa was the chance to indulge in some inside jokes about one of her great interests, thoroughbred racing….
Special Effects
In the acknowledgements to Point of Dreams, we listed a man named Frank Mohler, then a professor at Appalachian State University, “whose presentation on the development of scenic spectacle at the 1999 Southeastern Theatre Conference…
Coming Back to Astreiant
The new Queen of Swords Press edition of Point of Knives, the novella that comes between Point of Hopes and Point of Dreams, comes out August 29. It’s the first Points book I wrote after…
Looking Back, Looking Forward
It’s pretty typical of 2023 that I should be writing my usual year-end review several days later than planned. It was a year of great highs and horrible lows: I went in with friends on…
Announcement – New Publishers for Old Books
I’m delighted to announce officially that the Points books — Point of Hopes, Point of Knives, Point of Dreams, Fairs’ Point, and Point of Sighs — will be moving from Lethe Press to Catherine Lundoff…
Hypothecaries, or where ideas come from
The idea that became Night Sky Mine had its origins in a piece of legal boilerplate. At the time, I was working part time for an older lawyer who was winding down his practice; he…
Why Write Queer
I started writing queer characters and themes for the reason that I hear many other LGBTQIA+ writers cite: these were the stories that I wanted to read. When I sold my first novel, in 1984,…
Re-reading: Dolphin Island
I recently stumbled across an inexpensive ebook copy of Arthur C. Clarke’s Dolphin Island, which is a book I read to destruction when I was a young teenager. (Literally. The paperback eventually fell apart, which…
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Death by Silver — an excerpt
The new edition of Death by Silver will be out this month from Queen of Swords Press, and to celebrate I thought I’d post a brief excerpt. To set the stage: Ned Mathey, a University-trained…