This all sort of came to me this week when I was journaling, and it’s something that’s often on my mind–ruminations on time. The things we spend our lives doing. Are they worthy? Will they make us proud in the end? Are we building things? Feeding people? Educating people? Saving people? Healing people? Delving into the secrets of the universe? Touching people with art and music?

I’m excited about the way my neo-pulp steampunk noir story is getting some buzz. The novella “Where the Devil Resides” came out in Alembical 4 right before the World SF Convention. Woot! It is available in print and hardcover right now, with e-book coming soon. In a post-Civil War steampunk Florida, a minister’s teenage daughter is abducted by a band of vicious swamp rats and taken into the Everglades. To save his daughter from a fate worse than death, he must enlist the aid of an escaped slave woman, a mysterious Santeria priestess known as the Black Rose. This is excitingContinue readingNovellas and Screenplays and Festivals, Oh My!

Tremendous changes over the last couple of months. I’ve put together two complete new websites, one for my real name and another for my new pseudonym, T. James Logan. Of course, if you’re an entrepreneur, you know how web sites and marketing efforts can be a bottomless rabbit hole of things to do. The ways that technology can be networked over all sorts of platforms from desktops to smart phones is mind-boggling. Integrated mailing lists, giveaways, ebook marketing, social media, all of these things have an immense learning curve, adding up to weeks spent in which nothing but ad copyContinue readingCh-Ch-Ch-Changes

The discovery of identity theft is bound to be one of the most anxious and stressful moments a person can experience. When an identity thief gets his (or her) hands on your personal information, they gain the power to wreak havoc on your finances, credit and reputation. Minimize the chance that you will fall victim to an identity thief, and find out what to do if you suspect your identity has been compromised. Credit Sesame has created this guide to arm you with knowledge about how and when identity theft can happen, what the warning signs are, what prevention measuresContinue readingHow Bad It Can Get and What Comes Next

Authors often try to keep their pen names secret, like Stephen King did with Richard Bachman for many years. But not always. Others wear their pen names on their sleeves, like Kristine Kathryn Rusch, who openly writes under a different for each genre of her books. One name for SF, one for romance, one for mystery, etc. In cases like this, it’s strictly a branding issue. I feel it is time to bifurcate my brands, so I’m launching a new pen name, T. James Logan, to represent my efforts in YA fiction. T. James Logan’s first book will be Night ofContinue readingLaunching a New Pen Name

It was an incredibly up-and-down year, 2017 was. Tumultuous. Fraught. But with incredibly uplifting moments. For me, seeds that I successfully planted came to fruition. I had several short stories come out in 2017, some of them twice.