Category Archives: On Writing

What Goodreads reviewers are saying about Duel Visions

Posted on December 6, 2019 by

“Misha Burnett and Louise Sorensen spin some interesting and often excellent imaginative yarns with everything from modern-day vampires to sinister black cats covered. The stories are all skillfully written, and once you begin reading one you won’t be able to … Continue reading →

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Beyond The Great Divide

Posted on November 18, 2019 by

Stories written from an alien viewpoint, while long a staple of SF/F, are hard to do well. They involve a kind of semiotic tightrope–if the language and concepts involved are too alien, the story becomes too hard to decipher to … Continue reading →

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Lost Gods

Posted on October 31, 2019 by

Let me begin by saying that I am not Catholic, and the doctrine of Purgatory is one of the main reasons why. I don’t want to argue the point here, but it’s significant because I am about to review a … Continue reading →

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American Fantasy

Posted on October 26, 2019 by

I have been thinking a lot about Fantasy, and specifically about fantastic settings–settings in which the fantastic elements are integral to the world. And frankly, I’m not interested in writing stories set in some vaguely Central European kingdom in the … Continue reading →

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The Paperback is live, the Kindle edition is coming soon

Posted on October 17, 2019 by

At long last Bad Dreams & Broken Hearts is out in paperback. The Kindle edition has been uploaded and should be available in a few days. It’s been an interesting process. Generally when I write the pieces all either come … Continue reading →

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Hard Weird

Posted on September 25, 2019 by

I think I’ve come up with a new way to describe what genre it is that I work in. Hard Weird.  I think that’s an evocative phrase, and I hope it’s fairly self-explanatory. SF/F fans are familiar with the phrase … Continue reading →

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Fantasy Can Be Murder…

Posted on September 6, 2019 by

Coming soon from Lagrange Books.

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