First off, let me state that this bibliography page for my non-fiction isn't anywhere near complete. To the best of my knowledge, no complete bibliography of my non-fiction exists -- certainly I don't have one. I started selling non-fiction early in 1972, when I was seventeen, and it simply didn't occur to me to keep records until much later.

Another reason this isn't complete is that I didn't know what I should count. Books, sure, and extensive articles in professional magazines, of course, but what about fillers? What about fanzine articles? What about interviews? Newspaper features? Letters of comment? Introductions to works by other people? Brief essays? Does it matter whether I got paid or not? Do I list a regular column as one item, or several?

So what I'm providing here is a list of works I chose arbitrarily, for one reason or another -- in many cases, especially for fanzine articles, because I've posted the piece in question here on the Misenchanted Page. If an article is on the web, the listing below will be a link that will take you directly to it.

I've tried to include everything I consider a major work of mine, as well as a broad assortment of stuff that's clearly not major. I've provided the information I have handy; often that's woefully inadequate, lacking such basics as dates. I hope to gradually fill in details, and other work, over time.

Links for magazines, publishers, authors other than myself, or other categories I haven't thought of yet will generally lead off-site to that entity's own website.

Books:

The Turtle Moves! Discworld's Story Unauthorized: BenBella Books, August 2008

A guide to Terry Pratchett's brilliant fantasy series.

Mind Candy: Wildside Press, February 2013

A collection of all my "Smart Pop" essays, as well as some other old articles (updated where I felt it necessary).

Feature Articles:

Selected works, sorted by publication title

• Comics Buyer's Guide
  • Book review: Horror Comics: The Illustrated History, by Mike Benton
  • Assorted fillers

• Comics Collector
  • "The E.C. Legend"
  • "Lost in the Mists: Comics That Don't Exist"
  • "Spine-Tingling Tales of Terror and Suspense!"
  • "Rare and/or Valuable"

• Comics Source
  • "Invasion of the Prose Writers"
  • "I Sold Out!"

• Del Rey Internet Newsletter
  • "Scientific Magic?"

• Low Orbit (fanzine)
  • "So You Want to Be A Writer..." was a series of nine articles originally written in 1988-1990. Some of the pieces were reprinted in OtherRealms, as well.
    1. Why You Shouldn't Write for Fanzines or the Web
    2. Some Basics
    3. What Do I Need to Do?
    4. Where Do I Send It?
    5. Do I Need An Agent?
    6. What Happens Next: The Contract
    7. What Happens Next: After The Contract
    8. The Writing Life
    9. A Writer's Tools

• Movie Collector's World
  • "Monkey See, Monkey Do"
  • "The Worst Movie I Ever Saw"
  • "How to Tell SF from Sci-Fi"
  • "Fading Lyric"
  • "Film Festivals We'd Like to See" (in collaboration with Julie Evans)
  • Assorted fillers

• NC Veterans News
  • "Sgt. Fury's Family Affair"

• Penguin Dip (fanzine dedicated to SF and the board game Diplomacy)
  • "What Are You Doing With That Broom?"
  • "Deus ex Machina and Writing Fantasy"
  • "Dr. Wertham, EC Comics, and My Misspent Youth: In Search of the Unholy Grail,"
  • "Pros and Cons: Panel Discussions"

• Sagebrush Journal
  • "The Lone Ranger: Batman of the Old West"

• Scream Factory
  • "The Other Guys"

• Starlog
  • "Watt-Evans' Laws of Fantasy"
  • Movie review: "Conan the Destroyer"
  • Movie review: "Krull"

• Vintage Collectibles
  "The First Horror Comics"

• Wizard
  • "Horror Comics Then and Now" (issue #1, 1991)
  • "Ghost Rider" (issue #2, 1991)
  • DC SF Part 1: "The Man with the Raygun"
  • DC SF Part 2: "Formulas and Gimmicks"
  • "Enter the Sandman"

Newspaper Features:

• Gaithersburg Gazette/Germantown Gazette
  • "Comics for the Holidays"

• Louisville Courier-Journal
  • Book reviews:
    • Counting the Eons, by Isaac Asimov
    • Rainbows, Snowflakes, and Quarks, by Hans C. von Baeyer
    • The 4th Dimension, by Rudy Rucker

Columns:

• Comics Buyer's Guide
  • "Rayguns, Elves, and Skin-Tight Suits": 112 installments starting in March 1983

• Horror: The News Magazine of the Horror & Dark Fantasy Field
  • "Blood in the Gutter": Comics review column; 5 installments

• Nink    (Newsletter of the writers' organization Novelists Inc.)
  • "Rayguns, Elves, and the Walking Dead": 6 installments, 2003

Essays for Books:

• Dancing in the Dark, edited by Stephen Jones (Vista 1997)
  • "My Haunted Home,"
    • Italian translation, La danza delle tenebre, Bompiani, 1999 ("La mia casa infestata")
    • Czech translation, Valcik s Temnotou, Apside, 1999 ("Muj strasidelny domov")
• See also: "Smart Pop"

Works of Mixed or Uncertain Origin, or Pieces Written for the Nets:

• "I Just Wanted to Say...":   I don't remember where this is from.
• "Some Favorites":   A compilation of several fillers and short pieces from Lexfanzine, Low Orbit and elsewhere, originally written under the titles "Forgotten Classics" and "These Are A Few of My Favorite Books"
• "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?":   Edited for the web from a letter to a fan.
• "On Infinite Possibilities":   Written for professional publication in a book on alternate history that has never been published.
• "What Are Science Fiction Conventions Like?":   Edited from a letter to a friend, 1988.
• My Favorite Authors:   Edited from a letter to a fan, 1991.
• Advice and Collected Words of Wisdom for Beginning Writers:  Compiled from various sources
• Frequently Asked Questions About Writing:  Written for the Misenchanted Page
• Frequently Asked Questions About Agents:  Written for the HWA with the help of several other writers.
• "The Rules of Writing":   Edited from a Usenet post.
• "The Second Draft":   Originally posted to the Science Fiction Round Table on the Genie computer network.

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