Announcing the ebook release of my rare 2007 chapbook, An Alternate History of the 21st Century, which includes two original stories.  read

My sixteen-year quest to publish my memoir The Accidental Terrorist is nearly over. I feel like I've been fighting my way down the field all that time, sometimes making progress, sometimes getting stopped cold, sometimes losing big ground. But now...  read

There seems to be some confusion out there about the title of my memoir. Hey, don't feel bad about it! I brought it on myself. In a blog post a few weeks ago, I let casually drop that I was...  read

I never expected it would take so long to make this announcement, but my Mormon missionary memoir The Accidental Terrorist will be published by Sinister Regard in 2015. Although it might end up with a different title. And the cover...  read

This post about The Bone Clocks contains mild spoilers. When grappling with works of genre fiction, most mainstream literary critics can be counted on to demonstrate a peculiar tone-deafness. Take the case of The New Yorker's James Woods, who calls...  read

Help fund the fabulous GLITTER & MADNESS anthology from Apex Publications! Bill makes a pitch for your donation within the next two days, then reads a story request, "Care and Feeding of Your Piano."  read

Update: Since writing this little review, I've learned that Elmore Leonard gave the manuscript of Raylan to the writers of Justified a couple of years ago so they could "hang it up and strip it for parts." This answers some...  read

Bill is auctioning off THREE print copies of THE ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST to benefit Magick 4 Terri. One could be yours if you bid before 5:00 pm PST, December 15, 2011. So hurry!  read

[For one week in July 2009, I took over as a guest blogger at the Electric Velocipede website while editor John Klima was away. This was the last of the four posts I contributed. My prompt was: “What book would...  read

[For one week in July 2009, I took over as a guest blogger at the Electric Velocipede website while editor John Klima was away. This was the third of the four posts I contributed. My prompt was: “Was there ever...  read