My First Story is Published!
My first story, The Stone Witch, has been posted on the Amazing Stories web site. You can find the story here: https://amazingstories.com/2025/11/the-stone-witch-by-tom-thompson-free-story/ .
I’ve Published an Audiobook!
I’ve paired up with Maggie Weber to bring Consent to the audio world. It’s my first foray into the media, and it was very cool to hear the book — an entirely different experience from creating written content. The editing experience is different — listening to every word carefully for… Continue reading
Hello…
I’ve landed here in time for the spooky season. Expect some appropriately themed stories coming to my to my SubStack in the coming weeks. Also, I am in the process of serializing my novel, The Fallen Years on there. Now is your chance to read it before I put it… Continue reading
The Facts of Fiction
Where Historical Fiction Comes From This is a flânerie across dozens of research topics, and the process of writing historical fiction. A colleague said to me, of historical fiction writers, “We owe allegiance to the truth, not the facts.” It’s history, but it’s not. We bend the facts, when necessary,… Continue reading
Lay This Body Down
In The Flow of Time – October 5, 2025 Laveaux: Dancer is effectively done, like any novel is ever done until it’s published. I am still running chapters by my critique group (wonderful, highly-skilled writer people) and making tweaks, but I’m done. I am off hunting for an agent, about… Continue reading
ArmadilloCon 2025!
This was the second year WGW met at the con, performed a joint reading, had a table at the Dealer Room, and got to hang in person. As a group that’s now geographically diverse. We just got our first member outside the US. Okay, so he moved to Canada from… Continue reading
Sometimes It’s Hairy
In The Flow of Time – August 21, 2025 From 1820s firefighting to hair gel. Yep. I go down a lot of ratholes. It’s 1822. Marie Laveaux was a hairdresser. In early 19th century New Orleans, that meant house calls. Historically we have zero details, but from period sources we… Continue reading
Writer’s Block – Not
In The Flow of Time – August 15, 2025 This isn’t about the story, it’s about barriers to writing. Over many years and many chapters, I have discovered two that remain constant: getting started, and perfection. I really am almost never seriously blocked. But that’s because I am way too… Continue reading
We’re on Fire
In The Flow of Time – August 14, 2025 I’m reworking the end of the novel, for good plot/narrative cause. There are several new chapters to fill in some rather massive blanks. I need you dear reader, to have better insight into what makes Santiago Paris (Marie’s first/only legal husband)… Continue reading
Flexible Facts
In The Flow of Time – June 28, 2025 My colleague writers make fun of me when I say I have this strange devotion to facts in my fiction. 🙂 I’ll take that as a badge of honor. I’m restructuring the end of this novel. I had a serious narrative… Continue reading
