My news story on the BC polygamy court decision is now up on the Vancouver Courier's site.

This was my first news story (as opposed to feature) in a long time, and it was tough squeezing this complex issue and lengthy background into 430-words of inverted pyramid. I'm so used to writing in narrative.

To editorialize: The judgment itself mostly works ( Read more... )

The BC Supreme court is finally announcing the decision about the polygamy law on Wednesday, and I've somehow wrangled the job of covering it for a local biweekly. (This is after the feature article I did on it got delayed until the new year ( Read more... )

I'll be reading some of my fiction at the Burnaby Writer's Society's Spoken INK on November 15th.

Spoken INK's guest for November 15th will be author Peter Tupper.
Tuesday's reading begins at 8:00 p.m. Open mic sign-up is from 7:30
p.m. at La Fontana Caffe, 3701 East Hastings (at Boundary) in Burnaby.

Peter Tupper is a writer and journalist in ( Read more... )

By chance, I dropped by the Occupy Vancouver camp on Saturday, just a few hours after Ashlie Gough had died. The police, fire department and coroners were still there. I remember walking around, getting a sense of what had happened from overhearing chatter, and wondering if I should start interviewing people. I even had an audio recorder in my cell ( Read more... )

Now that Whispers in Darkness is officially on sale, I did a series of posts on the Circlet Press LJ group. While the chat is over, you can still read an comment.

HP Lovecraft, erotica and why they actually do go together
Author commentary for "Koenigsberg's Model"
Miss Lovecraft's students learn about their bodies
HP Lovecraft, erotica and why they ( Read more... )

My article on "Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: 21st Century Neo-Gothic" has been cited in Eve Bennett's "Deconstructing the Dream Factory: Personal Fantasy and Corporate Manipulation in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse", published in Slayage Volume 9, Issue 1. (PDF warning)

The author is right, I could have drawn a stronger comparison between Dr Saunders and Bertha ( Read more... )

My flash fiction story/essay "Worn-out Monsters" is now up on Every Day Fiction, and getting good reviews. It's based on an off-the-cuff piece I did for one of the Circlet Press author chats.

I just finished four days of overtime as technical support at the convention centre downtown, helping doctors upload their presentations for a conference. ( Read more... )

I "covered" the Occupy Vancouver general assembly and march on Saturday, October 15th. This wasn't true coverage in a journalistic sense, more my idiosyncratic opinions and photos posted on Twitter and Facebook, along with hopes of getting a story idea. I figured that other people would be covering the main story.

Some commenters on Facebook ( Read more... )

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Snipped from vinnie_tesla:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

• Snapshot
• The Re-education of Mimi
• Dogs and Wolves
• Skin Man
• Gods of Selfless Love