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Running the Gauntlet

Skein magic and its uses (from Dragonsigns)

Notes of Mateo Vargas, Ra

Notes of Mateo Vargas, Rayo Hill, 1977 Substance has been referred to as "skein" (pronounced skayn)  -- reasons unconfirmed.


What I Write

If you look through my st

If you look through my stories, you'll see there are certain things I try to provide. Here are seven of them.   “What do you want?”


That Note from a Fan

Fans. They’re the secon

Fans. They’re the second great joy in writing. I can spend months or years exploring a story and falling in love with every twist of the road my


Before Reindeer Could Fly

Did you notice that Santa

Did you notice that Santa's sleigh doesn't fly? Or it didn't, mostly, no

a writer's confession

A Writer’s Confession: Kvothe’s Ballad

The following is a confes

The following is a confession I wrote to myself some Easters ago after a session of reading, that I realize I'd never shared with this blog. It's


Character Interview with Angie Dennard (THE HIGH ROAD)

To celebrate the release

To celebrate the release of The High Road next week, here’s a character interview with its heroine. For its companion piece (also set arou

Shadowed

Secrets of Suspense – Shadowed’s “Birdseed Scene”

“When your psychic sens

“When your psychic senses are fading and the gangster's lair has the perfect defenses, how do you break in with birdseed and a rock?”


Magic In Common interviews

Here are the collected Ma

Here are the collected Magic In Common interviews, where I talk with different authors about their understanding of magic, the paranormal, or other

Shadowed

Enhanced Senses in Shadowed

The ability that has chan

The ability that has changed Paul Schuman’s life is easily described—he sums it up as: What we have is the power to increase our five

The High Road

Character Interview with Mark Petrie (THE HIGH ROAD)

(Mark Petrie settles into

(Mark Petrie settles into his chair, moving slowly and tiredly for someone nineteen years old. Then he turns on a friendly smile that pushes the f


How to be a Writer (a modest theory)

Do I really want to be a

Do I really want to be a writer? (The Unified Writing Field Theory — searchings and findings on what makes storie

flight

Flying – Is The Sky The Only Limit?

Power Plays (can we be ca

Power Plays (can we be canny with the uncanny?)