My friend Anthony Cardno celebrated Pride Month with a series of Interviews with artists, writers, performers and others in the LGBT community, a series of interviews which stretched into July. … Read more
“The world has gone mad today and good’s bad today…” —Cole Porter, “Anything Goes.” As I write this, America is on fire. Not everywhere, but L.A., New York and Minneapolis … Read more
Invasion of the Podcast People By Jeff Baker Some brief advice (with grateful thanks to Angel Martinez for invaluable information.) on writing a story for a … Read more
A few random notes this month. Every writer has inspirations. If they’re lucky, they get to meet them, and the meeting isn’t a letdown. Mary Higgins Clark died a few … Read more
James Tiptree, Jr. was the pen name of science fiction writer Alice B. Sheldon. The previous sentence is probably the least complicated information about Alice Sheldon. The first fiction under … Read more
By Jeff Baker The year was 1993 (or pretty close.) I was running a delivery route in-town and on my lunch hour I ran into a used bookstore and grabbed … Read more
Jeff Baker, Boogieman in Lavender But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as … Read more
Remembering Dennis Etchison By Jeff Baker A fine writer I know, well-versed in the field of horror, had never heard of Dennis Etchison. This seems … Read more
Following Oscar By Jeff Baker “In the old days, men had the rack. Now they have the Press.” —Oscar Wilde. It is possible, in the United States, to … Read more
I haven’t read every story by Ray Bradbury, but Graham George Barber may have. Barber contacted me to point out that Ray Bradbury did write at least two more … Read more