genre fiction

4 min read 2022-02-23 02:52:12

AND THEN IT BELONGS TO THE AGES

First you get an idea. Then you suffer over whether or not it’s a good idea until you come to grips with what I’ve called Schrödinger’s

1 min read 2022-02-16 02:42:33

There have been maybe two or three times in the past thirteen years that I’ve had to sort of “punt” for a Tuesday FAH post, and here’s one! I

3 min read 2022-02-09 03:38:04

Endings are hard, pacing is hard, believable characters are hard, dialog is hard… the whole damn thing is hard. Sometimes the hardest part (at

6 min read 2022-02-02 01:37:31

Normally I write up a little bio for these interviews, but the one J.V. Hilliard sent me was so much fun, I’m just pasting it in as is. Take this

4 min read 2022-01-26 01:30:45

Many, many years ago… hundreds of years before the dawn of history… a struggling young author, fed up with his undeniably brilliant short stories

2 min read 2022-01-19 02:55:51

“I’ve seen this a lot lately,” I said and stopped typing to think about how clunky this reads. “We need to talk about that

5 min read 2022-01-12 02:14:31

It’s rather funny how a word sometimes sneaks into a family and gets itself adopted. Where does it come from, I wonder? I’d very much like to

5 min read 2022-01-05 03:19:06

Writing without reading is like… …I don’t even know. Analogies fail me. If you’re out there writing fiction and you aren’t avidly,

3 min read 2021-12-29 01:00:31

On January 5, 2021, I wrote this: By the power vested in me by myself, I hereby proclaim 2021 to be the Year of Phil. This replaces and in all way

5 min read 2021-12-22 06:10:30

In my look, last April, at the book Science Fiction Handbook, Revised, by L. Sprague de Camp & Catherine de Camp (Owlswick Press, 1975), I

4 min read 2021-12-15 01:41:34

“Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.” —Kafka Okay, I have to admit it, I haven’t put a lot of thought into this week’s post,

13 min read 2021-12-13 15:01:17

I first met Ryka Aoki through her program The After School, a collaborative workspace for queer people and people of color at Beyond Baroque, a

6 min read 2021-12-08 05:03:34

From time to time I’ll recommend—not review, mind you, but recommend, and yes, there is a difference—books I think fantasy (and science fiction

6 min read 2021-12-08 05:03:34

From time to time I’ll recommend—not review, mind you, but recommend, and yes, there is a difference—books I think fantasy (and science fiction

4 min read 2021-12-01 02:33:19

In “Autofiction: What It Is and What It Isn’t,” Brooke Warner wrote: “Autofiction, which is short for autobiographical fiction, is one of