Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

As many of you know, Amazon.com is competing with Groupon in offering online coupons.   I received one for botox, though I crossed the name ...

I wake up at 5:30 when my alarm goes off.  I allow myself to just lie there a few minutes.   When I next wake up, it's 6:50, which mea...

When I was much younger, a novella by the name of Transit appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , and it blew my mind.  To go fas...

I strongly recommend Nene Thomas’ fantasy calendar.  She renders lovely fairy images with great depth and color.  Below is the back of my c...

Those of you who follow this blog know that I have been defending paperback books .  To recap, a major publisher said e-books would replace ...

I made some notes on things to correct as I reread my vampire parody.  Here’s a glimpse.  Most involve just adding a sentence here or modif...

Today I finished my vampire parody.  I had projected it to be 400 pages.  It turned out to be 395.  When this sort of full-paged, do...

Literary agent Janet Reid held her PANIC writing contest at her website .  We had to write a story in 150 words or less that contains severa...

The convention was held at The Atlantis, Reno’s newest casino/hotel.  The amenities of the hotel were nice, but it was difficult to navigate...