So there it is, the book, the cover, the full 400+ pages I’ve been working on for the last few years. More information about Emily Voss’ story is available on the dedicated page. If I’d known how much work there would be between writing “The End” and...

Hello from Belgium this time,There's a moment in the third chapter of Past Mistakes where Emily and Raymond find themselves in a room beneath a homeless shelter in the Bronx, standing in front of something that has no business being there.It's a smal...

Getting the visuals rightEmily Voss is thin, tough, wiry, with a couple of piercings, tattoos, pale skin and a tendency to dress in dark colors. That probably sounds detailed, but it isn't. It leaves a lot to the imagination. I only ever describe one...

The Scene Triggered A Rewrite I have a pathological fear of clichés. It's one of my defining weaknesses as a writer. I'm so afraid of writing something predictable or sentimental that I skip the emotional beats readers need to connect with...

Something Completely Different This week, no Emily Voss. No demons. No New York. Instead, you’re getting “Shadows,” a fantasy short story I wrote a few years ago. It’s different from Past Mistakes in tone, setting, and genre. It’s darker. M...

Urban Fantasy Isn’t A Guilty Pleasure There’s a negativity, not to say a snobbery, that works against certain genres. I write speculative fiction, including urban fantasy, and it’s subject to a degree of disdain from some types of readers (and m...

I went about writing Past Mistakes entirely the wrong way. That’s not a great way to start a post, but the mistakes go back years and have since been corrected. I can be honest about them now. As with most of my stories, it started with a premise. Th...