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The most common response I get when people learn I write fiction is, “Cool, what kind?” But when I respond “speculative fiction,” I usually get a blank stare.  I’m always surprised at how many people don’t know the term because I think a lot of readers already love speculative fiction […]

They say, “Write what you know.” So naturally, I decided to set my first novel on a remote Pacific island I’d never been to, in a mountainous rainforest few people have ever explored, and filled it with characters based on the extinct hominid species homo floresiensis, of which we have […]