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Dear readers, I can finally share an announcement that I have been sitting on for quite a while. It is my delight to let you know that my story The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur has been adapted in the new season of Love, Death + Robots, which drops on Netflix May 15. The episode list […]

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I’m excited to let you know that for the first time in a while, my acclaimed online video class for fiction writers and storytellers, Write Worlds Your Readers Won’t Forget, is open to the public again! The worldbuilding class is based on the book of the same title. (And it’s on sale for a little […]

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"Nothing is broken that cannot be remade..."

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Pacing: Add ingredients to the story’s conflict while keeping them all in motion, juggled for the reader’s delight...

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Lovecraft and Borges, in a twin pair of riveting tales, suggest opposite ways to encounter what appears different to us: with fear … or with curiosity. Which will we choose? (What follows is the first chapter of On the Other Side of the Night. ) A man visits a haunted house… A man visits a […]

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Writers: Please join me, and spread the word! This April, hosted by Scribophile, I will be teaching a four-week online intensive course on character development, Write Characters Your Readers Won’t Forget, based on my acclaimed Toolkits for Fiction Writers. The final week of the course will include intensive workshopping of your character arc by me […]

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The Apostle John, one of the fathers of the early church, described the man who sees others in his community suffering and in need and then turns away as one who “clenches up his bowels” (κλείσῃ τὰ σπλάγχνα αὐτοῦ). We render this in English as “closes his heart” (1 John 3:17). In the ancient world, […]

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I can’t keep up with the terms treated as pejoratives and applied by some readers to any novel that doesn’t have a white/male/straight enough cast. I guess “woke” is the new “snowflake,” like “snowflake” was the new “SJW,” like “SJW” was the new “politically correct”? Ok, sure. I remember that back in 2014, some readers […]

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When I am old, I aspire to have the spirit and mindset of Bilbo Baggins in Rivendell, in The Fellowship of the Ring (the book). As I came into life with neither Baggins-level wealth nor Took-level lineage, I will not have either his affluence nor his influence (unless some wandering wizard interrupts my life at […]

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Fiction writers and storytellers: Get a crash course in the craft of writing exciting fiction.

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