In which I have a late night conversation with Ron Thomas Brown. You seriously need to read Hill Country. Here’s a little info about Ron’s first book. Gabriel Hill stumbles home to find a mutilated corpse on his porch. A man who had beat him earlier. After puking, he finds…

Not much has been happening on the home front except for writing Incarcerdo. It’s progressing apace and I’m finally beginning to get real traction on the story, thanks to a simple outline. Storywise, it started out ugly and it’s only gonna get worse until it gets better. Been kind of a…

Friday night I went to a rock show. I’d been excited about this one for a while, because I’d recently become familiar with the solo music of Jimbo Mathus. Mathus, the founder of the Squirrel Nut Zippers (and consequently responsible for the swing revival of the 90′s), makes a kind…

Back in 2003 I quit smoking. Because I was already overweight, my doctor gave me a script for a drug called Adipex, which was some sort of amphetamine or appetite killer. It helped me keep the weight off after quitting the cigarettes, but it also had some serious side effects. The most annoying of…

Uh, yeah. Back before I resolved to NEVER EVER PUBLICLY MOAN ABOUT REJECTION, I wrote this entry on the Bastardized Version. Here’s the deal – everyone gets rejected. I recently was slapped down by an editor of an anthology – I thought I was a shoe-in. I’m sure he had…

I’m honored to be included. FIRST NOVEL: RECS: Bird, Allyson — Isis Unbound Lee, Frazer — The Lamplighters Reynolds, Graeme — High Moor Talley, Brett J. — That Which Should Not Be Wagner, Jeremy — The Armageddon Chord JURY: No ballot required, the following works will proceed directly to the Final Ballot. Please note these…

This weekend my father, at 72, had an accident. He’d been sick, some sort of upper respiratory infection with terrible – and I mean absolutely ghastly – coughing. So, he was heading back to the guest room in his house to take a nap (which he does for about 4…

I love seeing where other authors write. The age of laptops is here and I often see on social media where my writer friends update their status from Starbucks or their local coffee shop or bookstore. But for me – because I have a fairly demanding dayjob and two children…