Occasionally I get a bug up my butt. This is a very unprofessional way of me saying that sometimes I get these harebrained ideas and I act on them with very little forethought. This basically sets the whole stage for why I contacted Elizabeth Bear about participating in this anthology. You see, there are a…

About the author Best known as the world’s top-ranked player of classic role-playing games for fifteen years, Donald J. Bingle is an oft-published author in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, with several published novels (including Net Impact, Forced Conversion and GREENSWORD) and more than thirty-five stories, primarily in DAW…

As most of you know by now, I’m heavily invested in Triumph Over Tragedy. I’m spending several hours a night doing Triumph Over Tragedy related things, like trying to do a bit of PR to spread the word about the anthology and authors in it, and/or editing stories. It was in one of my “trying to spread the…

Really, the title says it all. The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust contacted R.T. Kaelin today, at which point he forwarded me their offer to add a story from literary giant Marion Zimmer Bradley to our Triumph Over Tragedy anthology. We both shared a virtual moment of bliss before we started trumpeting this incredible…

I don’t generally do cover art reveals, so if I’m doing one, you know it’s important. As many of you may or may not know, I’m helping edit (a few hours each night, in fact) the Triumph Over Tragedy anthology (brain child of R. T. Kaelin) dedicated to those effected by Superstorm Sandy. This project…

About the book The Hunger Games meets The X-Men in an exciting post-apocalyptic debut. Two years after London is struck by a devastating terrorist attack, it is cut off from the world, protected by a military force known as Choppers. The rest of Britain believe that the city is now a toxic, uninhabited wasteland. But…

About the book Prey: A young, homeless man arrested for a gruesome crime; a respected politician bound for higher office; detective Shane Calvin finds himself caught in the middle as two seemingly disparate lives collide, the weight of their secrets threatening to destroy them all. Anathema: Chemist Jerrod Dawkins has lost everything: his job, his…

Sam Sykes fascinates me, which probably makes me sound like a psycho stalker. Oh well. He’s one of the most humorous internet personalities I follow. He’s also one of the most complex authors, as he can manage to do what so many others struggle with. He can write these amazingly gory battle scenes and mix…

About the book 1916: the Western Front, France. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No man’s Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson has returned to…

I have a real soft spot in my heart for those affected by hurricanes. First, I’m from the area of impact, and I don’t like seeing the places I spent time as a kid being destroyed. Secondly, I was on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina and that, honestly, changed my life. It’s amazing to…