In August, I left Seattle, the closest thing I have to a hometown now, and took the train across the top of the United States to New York. The trip was amazing, bleak and frustrating, but watching the change in landscape – from the glorious mountains and springs of western Montana through to the bleak… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Hollow Bones
Writer’s Block
Writer’s Block, creative constipation, artist’s block – whatever you want to call it – is a big problem for writers, artists, musicians, and creative professionals. Some people say that ‘writer’s block’ doesn’t really exist – that you aren’t trying hard enough, don’t have a good routine, are quitting, etc. Others, including many suffering writers of… Continue Reading
Genre Fiction: May Contain Queer
At risk of further alienating my straight male and female audiences (don’t worry, there’s stuff for you all as well!), I am here today to rant about one of my greatest passions/peeves – the way in that people generally expect genre fiction to be automatically heterosexual in theme, whereas ‘LGBT fiction’ is not fiction which… Continue Reading
Editing, Queries, and Why I am Not Self-Publishing
Things have been quiet in Jamesland lately, for a number of reasons. Firstly, this period of year sucks – there is very little merriment that goes on. I did, however, have a one-man thanksgiving for all the progress I’ve made this last year: for all the successes and failures, getting my first job, finishing my… Continue Reading
Duende: Part Three
Part Three of Six. Duende is a Gay erotic scifi-fantasy/horror story cowritten with MJB’s lover and partner in crime, the amazing canth?Decided. The Alexi of this story is indeed the one and many Alexi Sokolsky, and while this story may hint at his future directions, it in no way gives away the end of Hollow… Continue Reading
Trench Warfare: The Endless Battle with Poor Self-Esteem
From a very early age, I was taught that I was worthless. A conservative estimate would be around 5000 people, each one of whom told me (often explicitly and unpleasantly) that I was fat, ugly, stupid, useless, an idiot, a nerd, that I deserved to die, and so on. 5000. Most of them were my… Continue Reading