Dear (INSERT LOVELY AGENT PERSON'S NAME WITH APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONALISTIC FORMALITY),

I am seeking representation for my darkly comic fantasy novel, Miscellaneous Stones: Assassin. It is what you get when you cross the Addams Family with Terry Pratchett, and comes complete at 100,800 words.

Miscellaneous Stones is born into a family of assassins. ( Read more... )

...But you staying to read them strikes me as unlikely. Move along, my hearties. It's just for the record.

1. ROADSThey say a house isn't a home until there has been a birth, a death, and a wedding in it. What I've been learning is that a road is the same. When we first moved to Rhode Island, all roads looked alike, and not only looked alike, but ( Read more... )

I was going to say "two more days till 31." But actually, it's more like the rest of today, and then tomorrow, and then I'm 31 ( Read more... )

Why I have The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo running through my head this morning, I have no idea. It's a story from my childhood, beautifully and bizarrely illustrated.

I have a clear memory of my father reading it to us in the first house I ever lived in, and a clearer memory that it was my little brother Aidan's favorite. Not sure if he ( Read more... )

Dear Bloggity Blogface,

Hallo! I'm back! Did you chew all my shoes in my absence? Did you run out of blogfood and start on the couch cushions? Did you sneak out an open window and visit other blogs behind my back? What? YOU DIDN'T EVEN MISS ME? Well, that's okay. I guess I'll forgive you.

I, on the other hand, have been feeling a vague sense of ( Read more... )

'Allo, Friends!

FINISHED MY NOVEL HECK YEAH I DID AND WHATEVER I'LL JUST REPEAT WHAT I SAID ON FACEBOOK:

Dear World ( Read more... )

Okay.
So as it stands, my Shadowstalkers MS is 549 pages ( Read more... )

Again, a great Hedgehog entry. This one made me want to write a story about the Astronaut and the Congresswoman. A Love Story of the Future. (And the Future is now ( Read more... )

I like it ( Read more... )