Monthly Archives: December 2006

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Milord Earl Bev the Rustic of Goosnargh on the Carpet Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title Season’s Greetings to one and all. I’m going to be spending the next few days poking around at a new … Continue reading →

I managed two short fiction submissions this morning. One was to an anthology with a deadline and the other was to a literary magazine that I’ve never submitted to before. One submission was e-mail, the other postal. Both stories were … Continue reading →

I’m craving fruitcake. Can you believe that? I saw one in the lunch room yesterday and had flashbacks to the one my mother used to make when I was young. So I e-mailed my sister to get the recipe and … Continue reading →

This morning I put the finishing touches on the final chapter of the first draft of a novel I call Ghost Inn. The book came in at around 94,000 words. I started it two years ago after NECON in response … Continue reading →

…when the year seems almost over, but there’s so much to get through before we reach the end. By this time next week I will have finalized an essay for Storytellers Unplugged (it will go up on Sunday), finished a … Continue reading →

Peter Boyle, perhaps best known these days as Frank Barone from Everyone Loves Raymond, died yesterday. The photograph accompanying this article makes it look like he had failed considerably since the end of Raymond. If you’re a Marvel collector or … Continue reading →

The company who does our larger printing projects rented out the local ice rink last night and invited their clients to a free skate. I honestly cannot remember the last time I strapped on a pair of ice skates. I’ve … Continue reading →

An acronym I discovered in the new Ian Rankin (Naming of the Dead). POETS = Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. Seemed apropos to the moment, though I have no inclination to POE at the moment. Received a big shipment from … Continue reading →

One of the signs of the apocalypse: the actual production of a movie based on the King/Straub collaboration, The Talisman. Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to this book over twenty years ago. Today, TNT announced they were going to produce … Continue reading →

I have a standing joke that my pseudonym is “and others.” This comes from the fact that, of all the anthologies that have published my stories, none have put my name on the cover. It’s always “Stephen King…and others” or … Continue reading →