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Mom and the Ankylosaurus

Blogging the Mesozoic

Category: Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror

I AM AN ANLAB AWARD FINALIST!

ZOMG! Look! My novelette, “Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs,” is a finalist for the AnLab Readers’ Award! It was published in the April/May issue of Analog, the one featuring this gorgeous Bob Eggleton cover. For

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MY YEAR IN REVIEW

To my surprise, several people have asked if I intend to blog about what I’ve had published in 2016. Well, alrighty then, since a few of you asked … Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs– This

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Time Travel Tales Anthology

Calling all lovers of stories about slipping into the past, seeing living dinosaurs, getting a do-over for a crucial event, saving the future, and wrestling with the paradoxes of time travel: Check out this wonderful

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MY AWARD-ELIGIBLE FICTION

It’s that time of year, once again, when writers set out to gently remind our faithful–but perhaps forgetful–readers as to what we published that is eligible for the Hugo and Nebula awards, as well as

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CALLING ALL WORLD BUILDERS

When SF and fantasy writers talk about the craft, you hear a wide range of remarks about world building. Some grin and say things like, “That’s the most fun part of the job; I could

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WRITING: THE BEST JOB

The other day I remarked to someone as to how their day job designing games must be the coolest thing ever. In reply this person said, “Well you spend your time writing about dinosaurs. How

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DINO MATE IS BACK IN PRINT

For everyone who can’t get enough of my dinosaur stories, I’m pleased to announce that the terrific folks at Digital Science Fiction have reprinted my stand-alone story Dino Mate. It features Marty and Julianna, the

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I’M IN A NEW ANTHOLOGY

Hey, my zombie story is in a new 99 cent anthology of 44 short-shorts. These short-shorts (no, not the ones women wear) are just the thing to read while standing in line or sitting in

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SF SIGNAL INTERVIEW

What can a non-dinosaurphile learn from a journey, however brief or prolonged, into the Mesozoic? How many dinosaur species existed? How can we extrapolate so much about dinosaurs and so much about the history of

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DIAMOND JIM AND THE DINOSAURS

One of my favorite protagonists, Marty Zuber, returns to the pages of Analog (April 2016) to discover that the slipperiest of creatures may not be a Cretaceous dinosaur but rather is Diamond Jim, a fellow

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