The first InterGalactic Medicine Show Awards Anthology is out, and my story "The Robot Sorcerer" is in it. My story did not win an InterGalactic award, because it came out before the award was instituted. (Notice how confident I am that it would have won an award, had it existed at the time.) But I'm very happy to be included... read more »

I'll be at Life, the Universe, and Everything this week. This used to be BYU's science fiction and fantasy symposium, but this year it's being held at Utah Valley University. Here's my participation schedule: Friday 10am Panel: Monsters & Mormons - Nathan Shumate, Dan Wells (M), Eric James Stone, Jaleta Clegg, EC Buck, Steven Peck Noon Panel: How to write... read more »

Here's a list of what will be free this week: February 6: "Attitude Adjustment" February 7: "The Final Element" February 8: "The Man Who Moved the Moon" February 9: "Salt of Judas" February 10: "The Robot Sorcerer" Each story will be available free from Amazon’s Kindle store until about midnight Pacific Time on its promotional day, but you don’t need... read more »

My latest story in Analog Science Fiction & Fact is now available in the April 2012 issue. It's a Probability Zero short story titled "To Serve Aliens (Yes, It's a Cookbook.)" It's my little tribute to Damon Knight's short story "To Serve Man" (which was made into a Twilight Zone episode by the same name, and has been parodied on... read more »

I'm taking up Mary Robinette Kowal's challenge of a Month of Letters.  Basically, the idea is that you mail a letter (or postcard) every day there's mail service in February. I wrote a letter last night that will go out in today's mail. It was kind of fun to put pen to paper and write -- it's been a few... read more »

Here's a list of what will be free this week: January 30: "The Ashes of His Fathers" January 31: "Tabloid Reporter to the Stars" February 1: "Betrayer of Trees" February 2: "In Memory" February 3: "Like Diamond Tears from Emerald Eyes" Each story will be available free from Amazon’s Kindle store until about midnight Pacific Time on its promotional day,... read more »

Here's a list of what will be free this week: January 23: "The Robot Sorcerer" January 24: "P.R. Problems" January 25: "Bird-Dropping and Sunday" January 26: "An Early Ford Mustang" January 27: "Resonance" Each story will be available free from Amazon’s Kindle store until about midnight Pacific Time on its promotional day, but you don’t need a Kindle to read... read more »

Congress is considering two ill-conceived bills, SOPA in the House and PIPA in the Senate, that would cause problems for the security of the Internet. As part of a "strike" to protest these bills, my website will be be gone tomorrow for twelve hours, and will instead forward to a site about stopping these bills. Mine will not be the... read more »

Here's a list of what will be free this week: January 16: "Like Diamond Tears from Emerald Eyes" January 17: "Attitude Adjustment" January 18: "The Final Element" January 19: "The Man Who Moved the Moon" January 20: "Salt of Judas" Each story will be available free from Amazon’s Kindle store until about midnight Pacific Time on its promotional day, but... read more »

Now that my free Kindle ebook promotions are repeating, I don't want to blog each one, because that would be so repetitive for many of my readers. So here's a list of what will be free this week: January 9: "Resonance" January 10: "The Ashes of His Fathers" January 11: "Tabloid Reporter to the Stars" January 12: "Betrayer of Trees"... read more »