Supers fiction is perhaps the smallest niche of sf/f. Supers can be fun or it can be incredibly cliche (if you grew up reading comics–which if you’re interested in supers fiction is a good bet). I tend to think of supers creatively as graphic novels for that same background of comics reading. I can’t think…
My wife and I have resumed our Christmas tradition (after a year off due to the economy) of spending a few days up in the White Mountains at a bed and breakfast. Nearby is one of New Hampshire’s historical covered bridges. They’re historical because these things are over two hundred years old. And I drive…
This might work better as a short story than a novel, but it’s an intriguing idea I want to write down before I forget. I was watching a record on Hit Record (or perhaps it was this one) and started to think about Peter Pan’s shadow. It’s not often you see a shadow articulated away…
My wife and I watched the movie From Time to Time last night. The blurb sounded interesting enough, a boy returning to his ancestral English manor finds he slips back and forth between his current time and the past, deciphering the secrets of the ghosts that still live there. I didn’t realize until it started…
I was reading the sample of Melinda Lo’s ASH and she wrote something that struck me as odd. The main character’s mom is dead and her father lights a candle that burns for three days. Now candles aren’t made to last that long, and that got me thinking. What if creating one’s own funeral candle…
So I’ve got some pretty awesome opportunities going on right now, of which I will not speak lest I jinx them. I will say that it involves rewriting two different manuscripts, which may seem horrible to the uninitiated but is really flipping awesome. I’m in serious crunch time right now and will be for a…
I had a dream last night. I dream stories a lot, but I don’t always remember them as well as I do this one. It could make for an interesting story In my dream last night, my friends Kevin and Crystal were in a Greece-shaped theme park. It looked like an amusement park, but you…
I was reading the sample ebook of READY PLAYER ONE on my nook this morning, and I ran across a phrase you see pretty often. “You can’t take it with you.” A few weeks ago I was editing the crypt scene in PRINCE OF CATS. Traditional royal burial of millennia past where they were given…
Two ideas that have been bouncing around my head that I wanted to write down. I want to write a city whose nickname is the Ever-Blossoming City. Every time the monarch dies, the core of the city is torn down and rebuilt in a style dictated by the new monarch. In years of plague or…