Welcome to the Village

Of Echoes Born will be available at the Bold Strokes Books website this Friday, June 1st. To say I'm excited about this collection would be a wee understatement, because—this will surprise no one who knows me—short fiction is my favourite. That doesn't mean I don't have space in my heart for other things. Both as …

Advertisements

Ian

The dedication for Of Echoes Born is to all the editors I've ever worked with, especially in short fiction, and two people in specific: Becky Cochrane and Timothy J. Lambert. They're wonderful authors (and also one-half of a wonderful quartet of authors who write under the pseudonym Timothy James Beck), and they gave me my …

Friday Flash Fiction – Mr. August

The wonderful Friday Flash Fics challenge continues. Today's characters aren't from one of my published pieces, but instead from my Village project, a series of Novellas set in a fictional version of the Ottawa gay village where a bit of magic happens to come through. There's no actual magic happening here, but as you can see from …

Monday Flash Fic – Glimpse

It's possible I found another flash fiction group, Monday Flash Fics. I don't imagine I'll often manage both Mondays and Fridays, but the Monday pic just posted was so perfect for two of the characters in my Village novella project that I couldn't help myself. Caleb yawned. After a long day photographing animals for Furever’s …

Friday Flash Fiction—Focus & Clarity

I joined a wee writing prompt group. No promises on showing up every single week, but the notion is 500 words inspired by a photo. So, here's my first go, inspired by this lovely photo (which I tried to track down an attribution for, but no luck with reverse image searches, etc. I'll update if …

Writing Wednesday – Guilty, Crazy, Panicky, Lazy edition

I've barely been writing. My 'Writing Wednesday' updates are to keep myself honest, in line, and on track, and I've completely derailed. To the point where I was too guilty to post Writing Wednesdays for a few weeks. Partly, it's Orlando. I've got three major writing projects right now—the novel, Triad Soul, my village novellas, and another …