You might remember it was that book whose cover terrified me when I would see it in book stores as a child. It took me several months to read it, not because the book was slow or boring, but just because I've been lazy about making myself read. It is actually a very good book! I was initially disappointed with the title character. As the villain of ( Read more... )

This has been a very trying week for both of us. So many things went wrong. Angie has been recovering from an illness that sent her to the ER, then her car lost its muffler strap. On Monday the apartment gave us notice that they would be fumigating the apartment on Wednesday and we had to take everything out of our cabinets and keep the pets out of ( Read more... )

So I just finished reading Stephen King's latest Dark Tower story, The Wind Through The Keyhole. I keep wanting to call it The Wind That Shakes The Barley (indeed I almost typed it as such just now,) after the Irish folk song, which through some machination of ka I have been listening to a lot lately. Thank you, Loreena McKennit ( Read more... )

My publisher Dark Roast Press is having some problems with their website and it is offline for the time being. All of their titles, including mine, are still available for purchase from the e-book sales outlets we are partnered with.

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More and more lately I keep finding myself with things to blog about but when I sit down to do it it all goes away ( Read more... )

...When both members of the couple doing so mutter something about each forgetting their wallets and abruptly leave. It's worth mentioning that the bottles of KY were $2.84 but they had a $3.00 coupon to go with each one. Yes, they were effectively trying to get paid for buying more lube than two people can reasonably be expected to use. Seriously ( Read more... )

Being on a Lovecraft kick again, I decided to acquire and read one of the books that inspired Lovecraft's creation of the Cthulu Mythos: The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. Chambers was a bohemian artist of the 1890s who one day, for reasons he never really explained, decided to stop being an artist and start writing sensational romance ( Read more... )

I don't think I've really posted what I've done this holiday season so here goes ( Read more... )

Only a few days after mentioning Cherie Priest's amazing novel Boneshaker as part of the 30 Day Challenge she releases the news that Boneshaker is being developed as a film! I'm really excited, both for the story and for Ms. Priest whom I've kind of watched crawl from the realm of independent publishers and emerge as an increasingly prominent ( Read more... )

LOL, I don't even know how many days I'm back up now but I'm not giving up!

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