Small talk sucks. The reason it sucks is counter-intuitive, though. “Because I prefer deeper relationships,” is the reason we share with...

Image credit: newjer53 - https://www.deviantart.com/newjer53 In the first season of Attack on Titan , the central character, Eren Yaeger...

Andy Weir wrote The Martian on his blog. The rest will be a turning point in history if I ever finish writing my Comprehensive History...

Writers have to do marketing too. That’s the truth, no matter what model they publish through. We hate it, but there are prices to pay...

Let’s steal a tool. In TV writing, they use a tool called “breaking a story.” TV writers have to short-circuit their creativity sometimes...

The Moon and the Stars I study bushido. A samurai called Musashi Miyamoto has a lesson he calls, “The Moon and the Stars.” It’s his...

Here’s a list of stuff I like. I’ll write about why  I like some of this stuff later, but I want you to know some stuff I like because...

The book did everything. It was heartwarming and heartbreaking alternately, and it ended in a genre I wasn't expecting.

It’s a beautifully written, magical story that takes place in England’s Victorian era.

Flight Kamikaze is a Colorado punk band. They know their job, and they do it right.

Mississippi Bones makes the metalest of music. They sprang out of the ADD fugue state of their founding member, Jared Collins.

Connor has a hobby, then gets arrested. Sky uses her superpower to defeat blue light special Dracula.

Among the most metal books I've ever read. If you like seeing "punk" genres in their nascent stages, Gibson's a good dude to look for.

Cities in Flight by James Blish A strangely well-written book for being such hard science fiction. This book described badly: the entire...

My book is not like the Dresden Files (but it is) or urban fantasy Firefly (but it is) or like a D&D campaign.

Review of book, Nova by Samuel R Delaney. Required reading for hipsters, stoners, and people who need to learn how to write science fiction.

Writing advice to my younger self.

Not a review of The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Ambitious but lame.

How to write stories. Pretty foolproof method that'll help any writer to focus their story ideas.

Not as clever as I wish it were. Foundation and Empire tells the story of a God complex as big as your arm tangling with severe...