I'll be at Windycon Saturday and Sunday. Sunday morning at 11 I'm playing a gig as 82nd Street. I'll have copies of the new album onhand for 5 bucks. 

Over the last few years I've run over 1000 ghost tours for Chicago Hauntings, helping to make them one of the top such tours in the country. When the busy season ended this year, I told them I'd like to renegotiate my pay (which is actually less than it was when I first started with them in 2005). They responded by letting me go ( Read more... )

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"Just Like Big Jake's YA Novel Blues."  I'm playing at Geek Bar Beta on June 15th as a promo for Windycon in November, at which I'm also playing. I'd sort of given up on music, really, so I'm not really sure what kind of set to play. Decided I'd just write up some new stuff and play around on garageband.  I play better on ipad than on any actual ( Read more... )

So, I started a new job. I'm a tour director now ( Read more... )

Well, here's an update since last time I was here. I don't remember when that was, so ( Read more... )

Sometimes, you just have to trust that the dark lord knows what he's doing....


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Well, if you haven't heard already, I'm pleased to announce that the infamous "Satanic YA" sold to Simon and Schuster last week - it'll be released next year! Still brainstorming possible titles for it. Also demoing new versions of the songs from my back catalog that were written into the book.  Maybe I'll get a new band together ( Read more... )

Mostly running tours, doing Chicago history research, and nonfiction books. It's winter, so I'm reading Dickens again. Last month I finally read all o Pickwick Papers, which is like watching the sitcom being formed out of primordial ooze. After that I switched over to one of his "mid-period" books Dombey and Son, and the effect is like going fro ( Read more... )

Finishing up the last draft of my HH Holmes ebook for Llewellyn, which'll be out October 1, along with ebooks on Devil Babies and Resurrection Mary.  Having trouble getting started this morning, though, so I'll just post here instead.

On Wednesday I'm going to Des Moines for the Bob Dylan concert and to meet with a magazine that I believe wants me ( Read more... )