Forget the English version of this flick: Noomi Rapace in the original is the bomb, and a double for Reva, my assassin protagonist in Mainline. [Continue]

The Chinese family central to Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Man Woman" was in part written by pretending the family was Jewish, and "letting it rip." What does this say about cultural identity? [Continue]

Are you a black-and-white person, or a grey area person? How do these attitudes affect characters and readers' relationship to them? Some thoughts on the subject in this post. [Continue]

Incidental people, events, and settings seem exceptionally alive to me in Splintegrate. They demand to be explored, perhaps in short stories or an anthology of shorts. This post looks at some of the vignettes that niggle and suggest intriguing story [Continue]

I find that I write best, both plotting and characterization-wise, when I can get inside the skin of the characters I am writing about.  I don’t mean only “understand how they think”, which is such a common prescription for [Continue]