This past Saturday—June 3—my novel Stray Cats turned one year old. The idea behind this long-awaited follow-up to Lost Dogs is that cats really do have nine lives, but instead of living them one after they other (as we tend to think), they live them all at once, on different Continue reading “stray cats” turns one—what’s next?
One of the obligations (and considerable joys) of writing fantasy and science-fiction is the task of “world-building.” That is, the creation (or “sub-creation“, as J.R.R. Tolkien called it) of a fictional setting for one’s story. A well-built imaginary world is not only interesting, but also has a degree of versimilitude, usually because it has a Continue reading the importance of world-building
The latest in a series about influences from my earlier days As I’ve probably mentioned elsewhere, as a child I was into science fiction, thanks to Star Wars and Star Trek. As a teenager, I immersed myself in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st Edition, of course!) and largely abandoned sci-fi Continue reading when the world was young: elric
