Today, Texans are dealing with a killer winter, but not too long ago our very own Vivien Jackson introduced us to the award-winning first bo...

(sword on display at  Château de Chambord) There’s a ton of fictional aspects that don’t work in reality. But where’s the fun in t...

Hmmm….which one of my books would I turn into a musical? Tough topic this week, SFF Seveners!  It shouldn’t be difficult though, ri...

It's a celebration today as our Wednesday blogger Vivien releases the third book in her sexy Wanted and Wired  Sci-Fi Romance series !  ...

In 1997 I attended LoneStarCon2 (which was the nickname-type thing of the WorldCon that was held in San Antonio that year). Not sure what t...

This week, we're talking about time management in general and specifically how much time world-building gets in the schedule versus actu...

The main thing I’m planning to do in 2019 is ignore the noise. Used to, in the dark ages before DVR and streaming, when we watched live TV, ...

Happy happy, everybody! My family contains many Catholic people plus some Jewish, Baptist, pagan, and agnostic folk as well, so winter holid...

Mostly what I'm looking forward to in 2019 is it not being 2018 anymore. This was a blegh year for me all around, and I am ready to move...

2018 was a weird year for me personally, and my reading habits reflect that. For the first time in a long time, I read books I just plain wa...

The way I see it, if character arc is something you're shooting for, you have to strip your character down and leave them excruciatingly...

Eep. Just had a bout of mild panic because it's twenty-seven days to Christmas and I couldn't find the books. The important books. T...

Dude! There is a lot of brand-new (very probably) excellent stuff out in the land of speculative fiction. But because I'm spending most ...

“Even when you’re not writing, you’re writing.” That’s our topic this week. Thing is, I’m not always writing. But I am always writer-...

Once upon an autumn, I was a lone weirdo in a gothic Texas family. Like, I read a lot of Stephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien, and everybody else...

When I was chiefly a reader and not interested in selling my scribbles, I’d buy a book because it looked fun or was recommended to me, and...

Folk who know me best also know I used to be a copy editor at a book publisher. I mean, for like a decade. And then I managed copy editors. ...

Dear Me on April 3, 2017, Tomorrow your first book will be available for sale. Go you, kiddo. You'll get flowers from Christa, and Slo...

I always wanted to write a book. Yet I didn't succeed in doing so until I was almost 40. Which was totally coincidence and not at all ...

Hoh boy. This week on SFF Seven we're talking about how to stay motivated when life "spirals downward" (<-- poetic way of p...