Warning: political snark. I’ve been admonished for being too political in my art & writing. I have also been accused of not being political enough. To be clear, I have been political since at least 1986. Sometimes it didn’t show as much. All that socially liberal SFF I’d read since 1977 ran up against my…
Read More Everything Is PoliticalTL;dr…Look up authors on social media before you decide to join their private writers’ groups or professional organizations. Yeah, there’s a pandemic happening, and it’s getting worse in the regions where Stupid Meets Hateful. I live in Arizona, one of the current US hotspots. Covid19 is around every corner. I’m in lockdown right now from…
Read More The RWA Meltdown: CodicilI’m publishing a new version of my sword-and-planet fantasy novel BLOODSHADOW on July 10, 2020, through Draft2Digital. At 40,482 words, this is a revised version of the first part of the monster 135K book that was on Wattpad some years ago. Amazon US buy link Amazon global buy link Universal buy link (for platforms other…
Read More Relaunching Bloodshadow!After the bloviated weirdness of Trump’s Nuremberg-Rally-style ‘celebration’ at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020, I’ve noticed a common thread on social media feeds. Ordinary non-Trumper Americans, especially people of color and LGBTQIA folks, are *flinching* at American flags. Because now there’s a deadly calculus going on in our heads: “Is that flag being flown…
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