Published Fictioneer. American. Traditional Catholic. Science Fiction Fool.
I remember when it would rain in the summer and the rain would stay like a spill on the floor, and we could go outside in our bare feet, not putting on any extra clothes at all. No socks, no shoes, no…
Nina is a metahuman, which means she has a power.
Anyhow, for a while Noah and I walked together across the empty fields, not precisely annoyed with each other, just mostly embarrassed, I guess, and not at all apart but quiet even so. Then we split…
Theo soon appeared and came straight at me. He went past, slowing down just enough to snap, “Follow me.” I followed. We marched out of the schoolyard, looped through the neighborhood, went up an…
Joan Blos was a children’s writer and a fine woman. She won the Newbery in 1980 for A Gathering of Days. This is what she said of You Must Kiss a Whale, one of the novellas in this campaign:
Given the tête-bêche format, each novella would require its own book cover. Since I wasn’t interested in learning to prompt, I looked for a human artist. I follow a fair number of artists precisel…
I didn’t want to rewrite the novellas but I did want to address any annoyances. By and large they had aged very well. Still, there were things worth improving.
What I was trying to make — the Ace Double — embodies a format technically known as tête-bêche. Once I had zeroed in on the terms of art, it was really just a matter of asking Grok how to make m…
Four novellas, having nothing to do with each other, awaiting some sort of publication... Should I publish them as separate little books? Or together in an omnibus? Unfortunately, the prospect of eith…
I started writing, as a professional, for a younger audience. This followed on a disposition that had also made me a teacher. After I flopped at teaching, I similarly gave up on being Newbery bait.
I have been writing steadily, though not prolifically, since I was twelve years old. My works tend to be weird, fantastical, and science-fictional. "Wonder stories," I like to call them.
In 1858, young priest Zebediah Goodnow and the orphaned Joanna pursue a murderous Giant and soon find themselves among the Martians. In 1957, astronaut Scott Winslow Hale takes his sick wife Helen to …
