WE WILL EAT YOUR SOOOOOOOOUL. I often take pictures of owls and send them to a friend. This one got a full 10 minutes of silence before my phone buzzed. “Is it just me or are they kind of creepy?” To which I replied, “It’s not just you. They’re creepy as fuck.” “Oh. Good. I [...]
Happy Walpurgis. Tomorrow, of course, is Beltane, and that means sunlike sugar cookies, feasting, and blessing my new garden into growing, growing, growing. Incidentally, now THIS is a cookbook. And a love story. Wow. Work proceeds apace on Ruby’s book; also, Jeremy Gallow. It’s a funny thing, going back to bits one wrote more than [...]
Finished the third (and maybe last) Bannon & Clare book, turned it into a reasonable first draft, and sent it to agent and editor last week. A difficult book, one of the first I finished in the new office and…well, I knew where it ended and I didn’t want it to end there. Fighting your [...]
Guess what? Oh, come on, guess. Many of you have often asked me if my ebook-only offerings from Orbit are going to show up in paper. And now…they have! They’re now available in trade paper, through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and indie bookstores. (You can even get signed copies through Cover to Cover.) The cover [...]
Follow the white rabbit. Am I the only one who sees the beginning of the first Matrix movie now and smiles fondly, thinking that the Wachowskis telegraphed everything in the first ten minutes? I can’t be. Still, it makes me happy to see that now, it’s a storyteller’s ruse. Happy St. George’s Eve, everyone. (St. [...]
“EXCUSE ME SIR. YES, DOWN HERE. IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT YOU MAY HAVE NOMS. LOOK AT HOW CUTE I AM. DON’T YOU WANT TO GIVE ME SOME? I’LL BE YOUR BEST FRIEND.” Odd Trundles, the ever-hopeful. The world has gone crazy this week. I was thinking we could use a little bulldog [...]
Yesterday I finished the zero draft of a short story for Fireside Mag, tentatively titled Maternal Type. If it won’t work for them I’ll write them another–I should finish another short story just to have on hand, just in case. Usually I wait until I’m asked to produce one, which may explain part of why [...]
Just before dawn it was clear, but as I’ve been at the computer, mist has risen from the earth, hanging in the trees. It’s a nice way to begin, and I have the short story slated for today. I’m either going to finish it, or get it to a place where it can be finished [...]
Sometimes it’s the little things that catch your eye.
My goal to blog a bit more has fallen by the wayside. Time to dust myself off and start all over again. Yesterday, while my computer was engaged in thinking, I kept myself busy by cleaning my office. Which pretty much meant filing some stuff, putting other stuff in the “shred this sometime” pile, disturbing [...]