I am not dead! Two days of tour down, two to go—I get a break in the middle here to travel to Charlotte. (We’ll see if the TSA comes up with any new excitements…) So far, it’s gone well! I’m pretty hoarse by the end of the day, usually, but my voice is holding up. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
I am on a book tour! Since this is mostly school visits, the only public appearance I’m making is in Richmond VA, at BBGB Books, on Tuesday evening. (I think it’s at 4:30, but you might wanna check their webpage.) Book tours are kind of lonely and weird and exhausting, but I’ve got a lot […]
So, a coupla things… Yesterday, I learned that one of the colloquial names for lady’s slipper orchids is “whippoorwill shoes.” (YES I AM DEAD OF THE CUTE AS WELL.) I also learned that the highway I live just off of, which is a Generic Number, actually does have a name. In the maps, it is […]
So I had this dream—most of it was the usual nonsensical twaddle about strange mythic beings in an abandoned city that vaguely resembled a dungeon crawl—but at the end, I wound up at a jewelry stall looking at necklaces. There was one made of black basalt beads and silver spacers that I really liked, but […]
So this is my initial rough for the cover of the Goblin Novella. It’s got a white background. That’s the bit that I am wavering most on. A) The art looks best on white. So if I want to use this art, at least a chunk of it has to be white. B) Very few […]
Today’s Hidden Almanac is up! www.hiddenalmanac.com Also, it became fall overnight. The air was cooling off, it was getting very nice, and then it rained and suddenly there were dead leaves all over the ground. Suddenly it is a fall garden. Many of the leaves are still green and on the trees, but the internal […]
So it happened like this… A bunch of friends of mine kept telling me that I needed to listen to this podcast called “Welcome to NightVale” because it was delightful and weird. Several of them described it as “Lake Woebegone meets Lovecraft.” I did indeed listen to the podcast, and it was indeed delightful and […]
So there’s this lengthy scene in my current manuscript (which just came back for edits) involving a goldfish. It is awesome. I say this in all modesty. It is the Hero’s Journey with a goldfish. I had a lot of fun writing it. One of the edits is that there’s too much going on at […]
I started thinking about it, and now must offer the following: How To Survive A Riddick Movie If You Are Not Actually Riddick 1. Be young. 2. Be intensely religious. 2a. But not a weird Goth religion. 3. Be Karl Urban. 4. Under no circumstances appear in the sequel. 4a. Unless you are still Karl […]
Statement of bias: I freaking love Riddick. Seriously, I have watched Chronicles of Riddick more times than I can count, made Kevin also watch it, and the phrase “You shoulda taken the money, Toombs,” is permanently embedded in our relationship’s vocabulary. I was very sad they didn’t make the whole trilogy, and excited for Riddick […]
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