“Storms of Light and Shadow” out in Star Stepping Anthology

 My short story, “Storms of Light and Shadow,” will be available in the Star Stepping anthology from WildChild, debuting on June 3. For more information on the anthology, please visit WildChild Publishing. I’ve also got an interview up at Debbie Mumford’s blog. Read the whole series here. She’s going to have interviews up of all the authors in the anthology. Star Stepping is quite a collection of stories ranging across the fantasy and science fiction genres. There’s plenty of Read more…

Forget the high price of oil — it’s water we have to worry about

$4 gasoline? The horror! Forget that Europe has been paying twice that and more per gallon forever. No, when US drivers feel pain at the pump, then everyone starts saying that the apocalypse has happened and the sky is falling. I think we can all see how, um, insular and self-centered such a worldview is. But it’s not the high price of gasoline that worries me. I’m worried about water. A story in today’s paper is Read more…

Prince Caspian — what are the reviewers going on about?

I’m kind of boggled at the mostly unfavorable reviewer response to Prince Caspian. K and I thought it was better than The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, which we also loved, and A allowed that it was pretty good (high praise indeed coming from an almost-thirteen year old). So here’s why I liked it. They kept to the emotional truth of the story as well as following the plot. In the book, Caspian was Read more…