Monthly Archives: June 2005

Tomorrow, for those of you whose calendars don’t list non-US holidays, is Canada Day. The terre de mes aïeux (my home and native land) will be 138 years old tomorrow. And, gosh, she doesn’t look a day over 95! Though … Continue reading →

This is probably going to end up being one of those long posts that most people skip. I went to the HWA Stoker Weekend in Burbank this past weekend as both an HWA Trustee pro tem and a nominee. In … Continue reading →

In a few hours, we’ll be jetting off to LA for the HWA weekend and Stoker Awards ceremony. My wife expects that I’ll win the non-fiction Stoker for The Road to the Dark Tower and I’ve had a few other … Continue reading →

I just noticed that the lineup for this Saturday’s mass signing at Dark Delicacies is on their events page. This is in conjunction with the Stoker Award weekend. Clive Barker may also be in attendance at various times, perhaps at … Continue reading →

I knew nothing about the movie except that I’d heard the title and that Marlee Matlin was in it. So, when my suggested renting What the Bleep do We Know? last night, I thought — sure, why not? Ugh. What … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago, I wrote a story called “What David Was Doing When the Lights Went Out” for the Who Died in Here? anthology. The story was inspired by the massive power outage in the Northeastern US and … Continue reading →

I must have been zonked when I posted my last LJ entry. The MWA conference, I realized a few hours later, is this coming weekend, not last weekend. Duh! I had a writerrific weekend working on things that have been … Continue reading →

It’s amazing how quickly a nice healthy patch of grass can turn brown. We had a very wet spring, but it hasn’t rained here in any amount in several weeks, so I’ve had to resort to watering the front lawn … Continue reading →

My review of Brian Keene’s Terminal will be posted at Insidious Reflections at the end of the month. I’d been wanting to review this book since Brian handed it to me at World Horror and I carried it with me … Continue reading →

The new issue of Accent literary review is online. My contributions this month are reviews of Nick Mason’s Inside Out (a Pink Floyd “biography”), and novels by Stewart O’Nan (The Good Wife) and Lawrence Block (All the Flowers Are Dying). … Continue reading →