Monthly Archives: April 2009

I used to travel a lot for my day job, but over the past several years that has slowed down, until recently. This year I’ve been on three business trips so far, which is infinitely more than last year (since … Continue reading →

I’m in San Diego for the next couple of days. It’s amazing what a couple of hours’ time difference can do to a person’s internal timeclock. It doesn’t seem like much, but. I woke up at 4 a.m. today, which … Continue reading →

I’m glad this week is over. The big data migration took place yesterday and today at work, tens of thousands of records transferred from one database to another, from a flat database to a relational database. Nervous making, especially since … Continue reading →

My Cemetery Dance chapbook The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: 8 Secondary Characters from The Dark Tower Series is now available in an electronic edition for the Kindle, iPhones and iTouches, the latter provided you have the free app to … Continue reading →

My friend Marcy Italiano has a new book out, Katrina and the Frenchman: A Journal From the Street, which is about her experiences in New Orleans during the hurricane, and afterward. I read the manuscript a while back and supplied … Continue reading →

When a person has two jobs, it’s probably inevitable that they would collide at some point. By “collide” I mean “get very busy at the same time.” That’s where I’ve been for the past month or so. A project I’m … Continue reading →

My buddy Richard Dansky posted a brief interview the he did with me for his blog as part of his Five For Writing series. After you check it out, scroll down for other interviews with the likes of Doug Clegg, … Continue reading →

Product placement takes on a whole new level when CSI runs an episode based around a science fiction convention with a thinly veiled Star Trek theme (Astro Quest indeed — they might as well have called it Galaxy Quest and … Continue reading →

I had the good fortune to see Miles Davis in concert about 15 years ago at the JVC Jazz Festival. His voice was shot by then, and he held up signs every so often to convey something to the audience. … Continue reading →

I had a nice big box awaiting me on the front porch yesterday afternoon. It contained the first pass page proofs for the book I’ve been working on this year. A hefty package, since the proofs are printed on 11 x … Continue reading →