Monthly Archives: June 2010

We still haven’t seen any effects from Hurricane Alex, but the rain is on its way, apparently. Three to five inches in some places. Eighty percent chance of rain today and tomorrow, 50% on Friday and Saturday, with lingering rain … Continue reading →

Tropical Storm–and soon-to-be-hurricane–Alex is churning things up down in the gulf. It’s probably going to come ashore near the Texas-Mexico border, but we’re on the wet side of the storm so we’re probably going to see some heavy rains over … Continue reading →

On Saturday I went to ApolloCon for several hours. Met up with Michael Bracken, Bill Crider, Lee Thomas, Gabrielle Faust and a guy who looked like Brian Keene wearing a kilt. The con is a little different than a horror … Continue reading →

One thing that has intrigued me about this whole McChrystal affair is that I saw a segment on him on Sixty Minutes several months ago and I came away from the piece thinking that he was an interesting guy who … Continue reading →

I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 after yesterday’s post. Every now and then I follow the warnings and do a full backup of my site before I push the automatic installation button, but mostly I just push the button and hope … Continue reading →

I’m surprised that I haven’t heard many people talking about the new anthology Stories: All-New Tales, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. I bought it for my Kindle last week and the stories thus far have been uniformly very … Continue reading →

My essay “The Tangled Web We Weave” is now up on Storytellers Unplugged. It’s about the work involved in adding something significant to a novel between drafts. I received my copies of  Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, edited by David Morrell and … Continue reading →

If you want to check out Sarah Mclachlan’s new album, Laws of Illusion, before buying it, you can listen to the whole thing for free at music.aol.com today.  Also Tom Petty’s Mojo, and a number of other albums. I found … Continue reading →

I finished The Passage this weekend and am working on my review. My biggest fear about the book is that it would end on a cliff-hanger without any sense of resolution. I wasn’t disappointed with the way the novel wrapped … Continue reading →

Every word we write is born out of our blood and sweat. No, not really, but that’s what we would like people to think. The odd looking device pictured here is a pen that…wait for it…allows you to write with … Continue reading →