A friend of mind just started her own blog and asked me how to promote it. I figured I'd share the advice with the rest of you ( Read more... )

Allergies are out of control after last week's flood. Luckily, our landlord is awesome, and contractors will be here tomorrow to start ripping up rotten wood, replacing damaged sheet rock, and start treating for mold. A massive new dehumidifier will also soon arrive, courtesy of said awesome landlord.

Meanwhile, our new vacuum and bread maker have ( Read more... )

As a full-time freelance writer, I don't get out of the house very much. Which is one of the reasons why I look forward to Wednesday and Thursday nights ( Read more... )

Back when I started writing, in those halcyon pre-Internet years, one of the high points of my day was coming home from work and opening up the mailbox to look for the tell-tale signs of my own returned SASEs. Some days would bring acceptances, some days would bring rejections, most days would bring nothing at all. But no matter what the mailman ( Read more... )

Think you don't have what it takes to come up with something new and innovative? Think again. Sometimes all it takes to come up with a new idea is putting yourself in the right frame of mind.

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I turned in ten articles today. Boy, are my fingers tired.

• I was going to make a big, fun announcement on Wednesday, but technical glitches have delayed things until next week. Rats. Oh well, maybe Monday. Stay tuned.

• My contributor's copies of Space & Time # 100 -- containing my poem "Ghostly Silence" -- arrived last week. Beautiful issue. I hope that this is the start of a very long run under the magazine ( Read more... )

• Big news coming. But not yet.
• Started work for a new client today. Need to provide a scope document to another potential client this afternoon. Paying work -- it's good stuff.
• Strike one anthology off the bibliography. Horror World's editor has canceled the book collecting all of the site's stories from 2006, which would have included my own "A Group ( Read more... )

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I have posted quite a bit of new, free content over at the Platt Archive, including articles about writing, reprints of some of my earliest professional articles, graphic novels reviews of Murder Mysteries, White Death, Trashed and other titles, and a review of two books about Lizzie Borden.

Check it out, and if you feel like it, ( Read more... )

Annnnnnnnd I'm back ( Read more... )