A new Wild Cards volume— #30!!!— has been released with a story of mine in it. There are also stories by Daniel Abraham, Victor Milan, Caroline Spector, Carrie Vaughn, David D. Levine, Paul Cornell, Melinda Snodgrass, Stephen Leigh, and Marko Kloos. A powerful group of writers to set loose in the wilds of Jokertown. This […]

From the archives, a photo of me dating from 1980. I’m a brand-new writer, with a three-book deal but nothing yet in print. In this photo I’m in England, researching the Privateer books. (The librarian at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich was a great help.) In another year or two I’d ditch the spectacles and […]

So I’m now well into Heaven in Flames, the third book in the Metropolitan sequence. I’m confronting the normal problems of writing a sequel: how much of the backstory to reveal at any given moment, working out how the characters may have changed, and— after a gap of 25 years— how well I remember what […]

Someday I may catch up on my sleep. Until then I’ll just cut and paste from Nancy’s Facebook wall. More quotes from Taos Toolbox: “I want the details about how Grandma got wrapped up in vines.” “I cannot picture a ‘godscoop’ non-hilariously.” “Every dystopia needs a good investigative reporter.” “The time between the candy dish […]