Well, jury duty was a quick and painless affair for me, once again. I got as far as voir dir on a civil case involving a car accident, but was dismissed once I revealed that I’d also been in a car accident. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed. I’ve always wanted to serve [...]
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The title pretty much says it all. Two stories written over the past two weekends, a third story to be finished this weekend (in addition to working on the novel during the weekdays), and on top of this I’ve been battling the longest bout of insomnia I’ve ever had – maybe a couple hours of [...]
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
I’m going to start posting family recipes every now and then. I have no problem with sharing them, and I’d rather send them out in the world to be used and reused and rewritten and passed along, than just have them sit in my files and then forgotten about after I’m long dead and poltergeisting [...]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
“Omphalos”, my novelette which was first published last year in Engines of Desire, will be reprinted in Best Horror of the Year Volume 4. (The full table of contents is here.) Thanks so much to Ellen Datlow for picking it, and to Steve Berman of Lethe Press for printing it – this is a great [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Yes, I’m still alive. I was going to post something at the end of the year, but I’ve fallen so far out of the habit of blogging, I just didn’t feel like it. Even now, I’m pretty meh about starting up again. I’m just not feeling the whole new year, new resolutions, new me crap. [...]
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
I’m going to be offline for much of the next two months, not just here but on Twitter and G+ as well. I’m pushing to get FrankenNovel finished by the end of the year, and the internet is just too goddamn big of a distraction. I’m an all-or-nothing person – I can’t limit myself to [...]
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
It’s a very good review. And I what I love in particular is that the reviewer has interpreted a number of the stories in ways I never saw before. You think you know everything about the stories you write, and then someone proves you wrong, in the best possible way.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
That’s the name I’ve chosen for the series, of which FrankenNovel is book number one (yes, yes, insert a NUMBER ONE joke here, if you must). No coincidence that I live in a section of my city known as Powerhouse, or that I walk through abandoned factories, and past one spectacularly large 19th century powerhouse, [...]
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
I was putting books into boxes, which will go into storage, and I came across this. Italics are original, bolding is mine. Copy and pass it along, if you want. Make of it what you will. “When the barbarians appear on the frontiers of a civilization it is a sign of a crisis in that [...]
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
1) I have a new review, from Black Static #24. Unfortunately, it’s not available online, but it’s another very good review. 2) Another review, from Mike Griffin. Again, it’s a good one. 3) The John Skipp-edited anthology Demons is now for sale on Amazon. My short story “and Love shall have no Dominion” is in [...]
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