Category Archives: Books

Video: Roger Zelazny Reads Two Stories

http://youtu.be/TRQ4wKLfYbc   The great science fiction writer Roger Zelazny was an amazing reader. A few years ago, with some effort, I tracked down an audio cassette of him doing a wonderful reading of his novel The Courts of Chaos, the last of the first Amber series and about the only cassette in that series I [...]

Free Audio Story — The Panama Laugh: "St. John of the Throwdown"

The 5,000-ish word “St. John of the Throwdown” is set in the zombie-infested world of my debut novel The Panama Laugh, and is available only as an audio download — free! — with Violet Blue reading, on Violet’s podcast Open Source Sex. In it, a homeless teen sleeping on the beach in San Francisco wakes [...]

Z: Zombie Stories, Featuring my Zombie Oil Spill Novella "Deepwater Miracle"

Just got a couple copies of Z: Zombie Stories, a YA anthology featuring my 10,000-word novella “Deepwater Miracle,” my first published work of young adult fiction. “Deepwater Miracle” is Set in the world of my novel The Panama Laugh and features two teen refugees trying to reach Texas from Costa Rica, and encountering plenty of [...]

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

As part of my reading about great war tragedies — which I can’t seem to get enough of — A Long Way Gone is a really amazing book. It is the story of Ishmael Beah, a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, a country run into the ground by a corrupt government and rival militias, in [...]