I met Jonathan Maberry, author and comics writer extraordinaire, when we were both on a worldbuilding panel at DragonCon in 2014. Today, I had the great pleasure of watching the new Netflix series VWars (based on his work,) starring Ian Somerhalder, Adrian Holmes, Peter Outerbridge, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Jacky Lai and Kimberly-Sue Murray, and I’m […]
Writing
East and West: Killing Characters
American literature in particular is a lot more ego based. Readers often read and enjoy stories specifically because they identify with a character. It is about them first and the story second. Killing central characters, especially popular protagonists or main characters, can be devastating to American readers
Living Beyond Off-Grid as a Scifi Writer
Not long ago I was in a hardware store in a small town not far from our farm. I was with my son buying plumbing parts for a water project for the farm. Robert and I were at the register with our PVC valves, couplers, and adapters when the clerk, a friendly local fellow named Buck, started […]