A few weeks ago Christine thumbed  the newspaper and noticed Gordon Lightfoot's tour was swinging into our region.  We've checked h...

They really had me at " small coastal town," when the announcement from  Dark Regions press hit my in-box. Ouroboros , co-writte...

When I did a creative writing teaching practicum last fall, I was always in search of writing prompts. I pulled story starters from writing ...

A press release from a friend of a friend announces the release of a new pulp-style thriller with a  little bit o' Lovecraft, The Green...

Blood Hunter e-edition Just a few thoughts as a new edition of my third novel rolls out. Almost every writer with a slightly darker ton...

Roland Man sent me the link to this video, and Christopher Mills --who's in it too--posted it on his blog as well, but in case you have...

With cable/satellite channels increasingly becoming an interchangeable array of pointless reality programming, Netflix is increasingly my r...

I received an e-mail yesterday from my master's program. How would I like my name to appear on my diploma? And the angels sang. Seems li...

OK, I'm kinda back. Stewart Sternberg , whose The Ravening everyone should already have on pre-order, gigged me a bit a while back abou...

Before they're lost, I thought I'd save for posterity--or the life of blogspot--a few of the tweets that have erupted from my brain ...

Below is material from what may seem an esoteric exercise from my last MFA residency, but I kind of liked what came out of it. This is actua...

We have a new episode of Fear on Demand live. I guess an "at last" should be added. I was so fried after the past academic semest...

I don't know that you can call my first effort at making iPhone wallpaper steampunk with 100 percent accuracy, but I had the spirit of ...

So we’ve got the “Big Bang Theory” paused on the DVR while taking care of a couple of things around the house when the sound of thumping beg...

Besides a couple of 19th century horror novels, one of the first books I nabbed for my iPod's e-reader was Men Without Bones by Gerald...

I used to say, in those ancient days of 2005, it would certainly be nice to have my iPod and my cell phone wed. Around that time Christine ...

If you look hard enough you can find negative reviews of James Cameron's Avatar , and I suppose some of the notes about cliches and obt...

Got this on Facebook from a buddy of mine from way back. OK, way, way back, but I thought I'd bring it over here since these things are ...

We're well over a year past the chronic renal failure diagnosis for my cat Daisy. The initial news was devastating , as you know if you...