Monthly Archives: February 2008

My Storytellers Unplugged essay, The Days Passed, The Nights Passed, went online yesterday. Links to the podcast available in the essay header, so you can listen to my dulcet voice reading my profound insights. This is pretty cool coverage for … Continue reading →

A shout out to all my friends who are now updating their CVs to read “Stoker nominated.” Among ‘em: Sarah Langan for her excellent novel The Missing, Nick Kaufmann for his novella “General Slocum’s Gold,” Mary SanGiovanni for her first … Continue reading →

Things are heating up on Big Brother much faster than usual. Sheila/Mom and Adam are getting in each other’s face all the time (though she did get snuggly during the HoH contest when things were going okay). Jacob pulled one … Continue reading →

The new Big Brother is an interesting twist on the old standard. Instead of sixteen individuals vying against each other, this time they paired up strangers who were matched as if by a dating service. They have to compete as … Continue reading →

I watched Eli Stone, episode 2, last night, taped from last week. I was doing something else as I watched, so it wasn’t holding my attention 100%, but I do like the show and will pick it up again this … Continue reading →

Every now and then it’s good to get away from it all. We decided to go on a road trip this weekend, so we drove to Fredericksburg, which is about an hour west of Austin. It’s in the Texas hill … Continue reading →

I finally finished tinkering with the short story I’ve been revising all week. I read it through last night and made several corrections—mostly deletions—and once again today and made a few more, but the number was getting smaller and smaller … Continue reading →

No hail storms last night. Nothing on TV, either, so I watched episodes two and three of Torchwood season 2. Sleepers was a hair-raising episode that taps into our fear of sleeper cells. In this case, the sleepers were aliens, … Continue reading →

Last night, while I was waiting for House to start, the wind picked up and it started raining. Heavily. The kind of heavy rain that clicks and clacks off the windows and the roof. The kind of rain that’s actually … Continue reading →

I spent last night revising the four-year-old short story that was just returned to me (see yesterday’s post). I didn’t think I’d be doing much to it, but it’s actually getting a pretty intensive workout. This morning I added another … Continue reading →