Storytelling and our energy future
So recently, an unlikely thing happened: I got tapped to help shape the future of my country’s energy policy. Through storytelling....
In defence of fantasy
Three years ago, I wrote an essay for YA Interrobang in defense of YA science fiction and fantasy. They brought it back last week. ...
Why YA? Why SFF?
The other day I met, as I often do, a young writer: a sweet, earnest, talented MFA student. He asked what "literary fiction" writers...
Things I learned about writing while learning to bake bread
1. You can overwork things: knead bread that doesn't want to be kneaded and you'll have bread that only double-stomached animals can...
So, this again ...
Over at the Guardian, novelist and professor of literature Jonathan Myerson has joined the long list of well-intentioned editorial...
Cilantro and Werewolves: Advice to Authors on Bad Reviews
Whenever I launch a book I feel transformed, like a crab that's just shed its shell. My two-fold feeling is: "I'm growing! I feel softer,...