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About Me

I'm a published author, whose work includes dark fantasy, horror, sword and sorcery, fantasy, and humor. My career in publishing started when I was 23 and sold two short stories, one of them to an award-winning anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson called Amazons! (DAW 1979). My jobs in the industry have spanned the gamut in addition to fiction, I have been a journalist, a copy-editor, proof-reader, and both in-house and outside editorial in the field of New Age as well as speculative fiction. I have also done book pr, and once got a client on local tv by knowing how to make an alcoholic mixed drink using Moxie. I was told numerous times that I gave great phone.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Fellow writers who are not afraid to discuss the virtues, flaws, and problems of genre openly and intelligently. Only by addressing those protocols, conventions, and other related aspects of what holds us back as genre writers within the larger publishing community, can we hope to transcend the literary ghettos we labor within.

My Blog

Retroactive Abuse

I have been writing for 30 years about a group of necromancers, lycans, and amazons. However, I had only a single polymancer that figured in all of them. That was Josiah Abelard.When I got to the Da...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 01:11:00 GMT

Free Indirect Style

Validationis always nice. Over the past eight years, since I began to activelywrite fiction again, several people have tried to get me to mend myways and write in a different style.What I do is co...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:04:00 GMT

PTSD Equals Batshit Crazy

My main blog is over atwordpressIt seems like I am spending most of my time defending myself against a wannbe whose main claim to fame is sucking up to Mike Philbin and others.He has attacked me from ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:15:00 GMT

Once Upon a time

Once upon a time there was a wannabe author named Nicodemus PassieAnnie who wrote fan fiction, but he bastardized the stories and characters of an author he worshipped named Jane Rae Brite. Jane...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:05:00 GMT

Reviewers

Someone posted a really nice review of my novel Serpent's Quest on Shocklines and the regulars are having a fine time getting ugly with me. One of them claimed to have found five typos in the fi...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:52:00 GMT

Daverana Enterprises: New Acquisitions

One of the things I am most happy about is discovering new writers. A specialty of ours is development editing, taking a new writer and through a patient process of edits and revisions, bringing...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:42:00 GMT

FLASHING SWORDS MAGAZINE

I am the new owner/publisher for flashing swords magazine. I am looking forward to working with the previous crew and expanding in new directions.We are a quarterly publication that pays a cent ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:03:00 GMT

Chimquar’s thirtieth Anniversary Collection

Cyberwizard productions had recently contracted to bring out a hard cover collector's edition of my Chimquar stories November of next year. It will include two brand new stories that i am curren...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:37:00 GMT

Doesn’t this sound like the internet?

I'm currently reading "Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War" by Charles Bracelen Flood. And it hit me that this long quote I am going to make from the book sounds like the in...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Blood Hope is out

Blood Hope, which has one of Kaolin Fire's best covers ever, is now out at Fictionwise. I think that it might be the best book in the series, thanks to my new editor, Steven Beeho. The pre...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 13:56:00 GMT