It seems I’m constantly apologizing for not updating too much. I blame having multiple careers. 🙂 I also, for the past couple of weeks, blame the lad. You see, if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have scalped my finger. Let me explain. Two weeks ago was a glorious Sunday. …
I’ve received a number of emails from around the globe — my favorite was from Northern Ireland, since something about Ireland just makes me smile — thanking me for posting my fix for a Samsung monitor gone faulty as mine had. First, I appreciate hearing that it worked for you. …
There’s been a lot happening with The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook, and though I can talk about some of it now, I can’t get into the nitty gritty details on much of it. What I can say is this: 1. The book is done. It’s been “done” before, I …
I mentioned in my last post that a writer’s first publication is an incredible moment. As someone who writes both in the academic sphere and the fiction sphere, I can honestly say that the fiction sales are especially wondrous. Academic writing — at least for me — is professional. It’s …
I actually sold “Purging Cocytus” to Black Gate Magazine several years ago. They’ve been so backlogged that only now is it coming out. I’ve quite the soft-spot for Black Gate. After all, they bought the first short story I ever sold: my Beowulf-retelling, “The Hand that Binds” (though my first …