Whenever it’s time to start talking about the art of revision with my college writing students, I usually begin by saying if they want to revise effectively they first need to put some distance between themselves and what they’ve drafted. Being too close to one’s material often causes a writer to see it for what…
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I’ve released my new novella today, part of my Ace Stubble series. Ace is a lawyer who specializes in working with the undead and paranormal. In his last adventure, Dead Man’s Hand, he took on zombies and mobsters (and mobster zombies). In the new book, Unfinished Business, Ace gets caught up in a ghostly mystery…
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Back when I had a literary agent sending my work out to major publishers, we ran into a little problem–editors at the major publishing houses didn’t know how to categorize my books, especially Take Back Tomorrow. It’s science fiction, a time travel novel set in 1940 Los Angeles. But it’s also a mystery, as the protagonist…
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