Some of you know, I had a pumpkin carving date with Claire Sunday night before sunset. (We don't trust Oliver with any kind of knives. He might make lightsaber noises with it and start dicing.)

I think the thing that amused me most about all this is at some point when we were scooping out the pumpkin guts, Claire decided my pumpkin was a vampire ( Read more... )

We stayed up way later than we meant to trick or treating and waiting for the Great Pumpkin Sunday night. It was really the first time Oliver had been able to go Trick or Treating, and although it took him a couple of stops to figure out what was going on, once he did figure it out, he pushed past everyone else, ran to the door of the next house, ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman's been talking about giving a scary book to someone you love this Halloween. An idea I think is fantastic, and completely support. In addition, I'm giving a few things free to all of you - Escape Pod bought my story "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" and just published it in time for Halloween! Spiritualized steampunk with golems and ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I took off the morning to check out Claire's Halloween Storybook Parade thing at her school. She wasn't sure initially if she wanted to dress up as Pinkalicious or Purplicous initially, but after some thought, she finally decided to go with Princess Grace. It's a storybook about an African-American girl who learns about some of the cool ( Read more... )

I joked last week on Facebook that October was going to be awesome, if it didn't kill me. Maybe this was only 90% of a joke? The truth is, I think October's going to be awesome. I've been working as hard as I can writing, reading, editing, and, um, well working. Naturally, I haven't been able to do as much of the writing and reading (there are way ( Read more... )

I’m under the impression that the majority of the people who read this blog listen to (or have listened to) an episode of Escape Pod, Pseudopod, or PodCastle at some point in time.

So here’s the deal: I’m declaring the next month I <3 Escape Artists Month. I haven’t talked to any of the other staff about doing this, really - it’s an entirely ( Read more... )

Imagine Linus grew up to be something like Fox Mulder, except all he wanted to believe in was a pumpkin patch full of sincerity that would finally bring him into contact with the Great Pumpkin. Toss in a healthy dose of H.P. Lovecraftishness and you've got John Aegard's "The Great Old Pumpkin" playing for free over at the Drabblecast. Seriously. ( Read more... )

There are dead people up and down our neighborhood. A blood-splattered corpse hanging from a tree. Demons standing on front lawns, waiting. At one house where a maze is being set-up, every kind of ghoul, goblin, and killer clown from outerspace is perched on the roof or floating in the air.

It's Halloween. Maybe not the most wonderful time of the ( Read more... )

A couple of minutes ago, I faked a scream when I saw a monster peaking through the window on our door.  After I opened it with candy in hand, I saw three more around the corner of our house.  They told me my scream scared them.I didn't even have a costume on.

Apparently, I'm just that badass.

We were greeted outside this morning by rainslicked streets reflecting the pink and rosy skies.  There were a few clouds in the air, some white, some gray, depending on where the sun was hitting them.  Rain sprinkled down while blue skies poked through the clouds.  And one of the best rainbows I've ever seen here hanging in the sky in front of us ( Read more... )