The Literary Mercenary

When someone picks up a sci-fi or a fantasy novel, it's like they're getting off a plane in a foreign country. Some things feel the ...

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How many times have you wished you were better at something? A better writer, a better painter, a better sketch artist, whatever your jam ha...

I love reading short stories. I've always enjoyed the art form, and I treated both collections and anthologies as a kind of sampler plat...

When we sit down to build worlds, we tend to focus on the big, sexy topics. How does magic work in this strange, new world? What forces powe...

I just got back from Capricon , and like always it was a working vacation for me. I brought my newest novel Crier's Knife , I was on all...

I've written fairly often about what people would term "social justice" issues in fiction. From Asexual Awareness in Fiction ,...