Holes in the Safety Net

I feel the need to bitch about the state of Massachusetts Mental Health system.It works as though the Powers That Be sat down and said, “How much money can we spend and not actually solve any problems?” and went from there.A few years back, they closed all...

When the Fic Hits the Fan

Time to make me some enemies.I don’t see the point of fan fiction.Like, at all.It’s one thing to be influenced by another author. We all are. I can often tell a writer’s favorite author just by reading his work. Brust was a Zelazny fan. S M Stirling...

Just Talk to People

I recently did an author talk at my local library. It went very well, sold a handful of books, made some new contacts. It just flowed nicely, people had enough questions to keep the momentum up any time I ran down, so it was a nice, informal chat.This brings me to my...