Lots of folks are down on the zombie novel. It’s all been done before, “zombies are the new vampire,” how many times can you tell the same story? Does the world need another zombie novel? The answers are – yes, no, lots, and yes, this one. Also, fuck those people….

Playing with my new toy, iRig and Amplitube for the iPad. Hope everyone is having a happy day. Love, me

The year ends and it’s always busy. At work, I’m developing a WordPress site for our partner company AND shooting and editing a Christmas video (due Thursday night). I’ve been working on the edits of This Dark Earth and now I’m moving on to the edits and revisions of The…

They say blog posts that feature numbered lists – top tens and fifteen things white girls say on Facebook, etc. – are really popular and garner more traffic. Hell if I know why. So, I planned on doing my top ten books of the year but it turns out I…

On Sunday night, I wrote a big long blathering blog in praise of traditional publishing – not knocking self-publishing, just focusing on why traditional publishing still has relevance. It loosely related to the short film I made – and it talked about money, the awesomeness of Simon & Schuster’s editing…

This is a short film I made to test out the new/used Panasonic HXV200 camera we just bought at work. Troublesome issues included getting exposure right on timelapse/interval shooting and the $5 tripod I used that couldn’t keep an iPhone steady, not to mention a fifteen pound camera. However, I’m…

I had a great weekend, enjoyed working on my book, communing with nature, listening to geese babble, watching the lake. I’m thankful I’m working with professionals.  

This blog post aired on the Bastardized Version sometime in 2009, before agent, book deal. It’s pretty self-important. —– As I’ve grown older, I often look back on my adolescence with fondness and nostalgia. I know for many people, their formative years were painful and full of memories that they’d…

Been awhile since I’ve done one of these, the freeform, stream of consciousness Synaptic Misfires blog posts. So, here goes. —– Saw Scorcese’s HUGO this weekend with the kids. It was the perfect movie for a) Francophiles, b) adults, c) students or aficionados of film history, or d) Scorcese fans….