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When you write skits for Saturday Night Live, you spend your days doing two things. Praying that nobody ever sends Kristen Wiig a pilot script she likes and devising sketches that are logistically required to go at least two minutes too long. You have to let the first thing go. As for the second, sometimes, you can write a sketch about a show that' ( Read more... )

Gotta have the right stuff. Just swapped out the stuff I needed for the D&D book to the stuff (or some of it) I want to have to hand for the at bat middlegrade fantasy, the on deck adult fantasy, and the in the hole stories.


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A fantasy novel I've written for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms line, titled Sandstorm, will be out in Spring of next year. Various authors who've written in the line are participating in a round-robin interview, including, starting this week, me. See here?

Information wants to be free, but only so long as the information is contained in little boxes made out of oil and rare metals, designed for and marketed to white, middle-class English speakers.

An American hero, Howard Zinn, has passed away.

Poll I'm gonna read 'em all, but which one first?

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 Since I've turned my attention to the ungainly and inelegant form called "novel," my short story production has dropped to nil. So the next time something of mine will see print will be my Forgotten Realms shared world fiction debut.

My short story, "Feast of the Moon" will appear in the forthcoming anthology Realms of the Dead, scheduled for ( Read more... )

In the five thousand years of recorded human history, and indeed, in all of anthropologically and archeologically knowable human history, it is inarguably true that every single significant technological advance has been rapidly propagated across all cultures and societies, and that every individual human (for it is the individual who holds primacy ( Read more... )