If you look at the status of my works in progress on the sidebar, you'll notice two things. First , I have changed Travelers ' statu...

I don't have a lot of choice in what I read here in Thailand. The English bookstores only carry the very best of the bestselling (i.e. H...

Natalie finished my prize sketches much faster than I'd thought. She was only supposed to give me one sketch, but she got so excited ab...

Every once in a while, I research something that's just random enough or cool enough or geeky enough to share (like, you know, should yo...

Finally, my inability to write good endings pays off! Natalie over at Between Fact & Fiction recently ran a contest to see who could w...

I have a theory that for any given thing I want to do on the computer, somebody has written a free program for it. As it turns out, that...

(Side note: I've updated the Night Sky in Chiang Mai post to link to other writers who did the same exercise, if you're interested....