Kal Cobalt

It was with bittersweet memories that I heard the news of Velvet Mafia’s upcoming closure. Waxing nostalgic and links to my free Mafia fic (up until the end of May) below. Read the rest of this entry »

My author page is now up at Goodreads. Friend me, become a fan, review stuff, or take a peek at the eclectic works on my currently-reading and to-read shelves.

I’ve also set up a blog post there specifically requesting book recommendations, so please share!

This is the new and improved version of my website, which has been many years coming. I now have a forehead-shaped divot in my desk from banging my head against it, and there’s still a lot of work to be done here, but what you see now is at least sort of what I meant for you to get. (Of note: writing cyberpunk does not, in any way, mitigate the frustrations of creating websites or installing WordPress. Who knew?)

Here are a few of the things you can find around here:

–A complete list of my works which have appeared in anthologies and collections. (I’ll be making the list more complete soon.)

–A new blog post (one of many to come).

–Broken tags, slightly wonky CSS, and other bits of tattered code lovingly handcrafted by someone who knows more about writing fictional robots than understanding chmod, FTP permissions, and config files. Hopefully, my doddering will be entertaining at best and only mildly annoying at worst.

Until I get some more content up (which will be starting soon and recurring frequently), you might want to check out an unconventional essay on gender, a tongue-in-cheek essay about robot sex, or some free erotic cyberpunk/biopunk fiction set in Las Vegas.

Comments about the new site are welcome (please be gentle). Heck, comments about anything at all are welcome, as long as you aren’t a Nigerian prince seeking assistance to access your funds or passing along a great deal on male enhancement medications.

Thanks for stopping by, have a look around, and come back soon!

As I formulated the launch of my blog, a funny thing happened — something that helped me understand what’s kept me from blogging before, reminded me of the importance of honesty, and strengthened my resolve to offer myself up to the wolves of cyberspace. Keith Olbermann, Twitter, and your host the “unamerican ignoramus,” all under the cut.
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