COMMENT!

The last two episodes of Season Four of House M. D. are, without a doubt, the most emotionally devastatingly and beautifully written television I've seen since...I don't know. A long damn time. Television doesn't make me cry, but I cried. Astounding. Television, even from Fox, can be brilliant.

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My thanks to everyone who preordered ( Read more... )

Hope is for sissies. ~ Gregory House, MD ( Read more... )

Firstly and most importantly: You may now preorder the Alabaster: Wolves hardcover from Amazon. Just follow the link. I cannot impress upon you strongly enough how important it is - if there is to be more Alabaster comics - that we have very good preorder numbers. So, please. If you can, preorder. Thank you ( Read more... )

I'm beginning a new push to increase the visibility (and sales) of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, and, of course, my best foot forward is the book trailer. Please repost it anywhere you can. Anywhere. Blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, mention it on Twitter, whatever (and I know there must be dozens of HIP NEW social networking thingies I've never ( Read more... )

This isn't The Hunger Games icon I want, but I don't think the one I want exists, and I haven't had time to make it. So, this is my "placeholder."

If you've not read this article - "White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in The Hunger Games," by Anna Holmes - over at the New Yorker website, then you ought stop reading this silly and, ultimately ( Read more... )

Today, of course, is Darwin Day, and marks the 203rd anniversary of Darwin's birth. Viva la Evolución! To quote Carl Sagan:

The secrets of evolution are death and time - the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the envirnoment; and time for a long succession of small mutations that were by accident adaptive, ( Read more... )

It's probably a sad comment on my likelihood of ever obtaining "bestseller" status that I'm honestly much more pleased with a good review from Weird Tales (Daughter of Hounds) than I am with one from Entertainment Weekly (Murder of Angels). But what the hell ever. Scott Connors, in the forthcoming Weird Tales #346, writes: "Daughter of Hounds is a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I did 1,529 words, which I count as none too shabby. Also, I worked on an interview for a local paper (more on this later), which I need to finish up today.

When the work was done, we drove over to Borders on Ponce de Leon, because it was January 2nd and I felt some vague duty to actually see copies of Daughter of Hounds and the mmp of ( Read more... )