Jan 21, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
I’m excited to announce that Taiwanese partners Aquarius Publishing have acquired traditional Chinese publication rights to The Eagle Tree. They’ve created a marvelous new cover for the book (to the right) The Chinese edition for readers in the...
Jan 17, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Writing, Past Notes
LAST CALL and HOUSE WITH THE CLOCK IN ITS WALLS Tim Powers and John Bellairs Published on John Bellairs Birthday – January 17, 1938! In my spies+sorcery novel Wilderness of Mirrors, I’m trying to write a grounded fantasy that builds on known facts about the Cold...
Dec 18, 2017 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
I’m reviewing some of my favorite wintertide comfort books for the holidays…. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper was one of my childhood pleasures in reading fantasy. It was dark, horrific, enthralling and otherworldly. Also, very English, which is what Christmas time...
Dec 14, 2017 | Horror, Past Notes
A Story by Nicholas Hallum OPERATION SLEIGH RIDE National Security Administration [NSA] EYES ONLY – CLASSIFICATION LEVEL 10 DO NOT READ THIS FILE IN THE CLEAR CLASSIFIED RECORD 12.20.00 13:14 HOURS The Christmas tree was up. Every year, we hand cut a Noble Fir in the...
Dec 12, 2017 | Past Notes, Poetry
Mercy by Rudy Francisco She asks me to kill the spider. Instead I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup & a napkin I catch the spider put it outside and allow it to walk away. If i am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time just being...
Dec 11, 2017 | Current Ned Note, News and Media, On Books, On Writing, Past Notes
Reviewer Jeb Harrison published a great introduction to my novel SINFUL FOLK in the Huffington Post Book section! Tales of Hard Winters Long Ago The writer Richard Adams, in Watership Down, said that “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what...
