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I am the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
My short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. In 2010, four of my stories were collected in When the Night Comes Down and my story "The Bank Job" won the Al Blanchard Award.
I am a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. I also write book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
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Wettest. Drought. Ever.
I don’t think you’ll find anyone complaining amount the amount of rain we’ve received so far in 2012. Weather experts had been predicting a dry winter because of a La Niña pattern in the Pacific. 80% of the time that leads … Continue reading
Posted in Alcatraz, Castle, Fringe, House, The Walking Dead
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Prepare to be boarded
Few things will wake you up as quickly in the morning as sitting down at your computer, which you’ve left on overnight, to find only a black screen. All the lights are on, but nobody’s home. I’m not sure what … Continue reading
This old House
Logged onto the local newspaper when I got up this morning. The current weather said “mist.” Loudest damned mist I’ve ever heard. We got a good soaking. Puddles in the yard, ditch nearly full to overflowing. Mist, indeed. I was … Continue reading
Posted in CSI, House, Justified, SVU
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The dingus
Living in interesting times. In a good way. Lots of great stuff happening in 2012. So long as the world doesn’t end, that is. I have a special relationship with Always Something There by Naked Eyes. It was the first song … Continue reading
Posted in Castle, House, NCIS
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They’re all going to laugh at you
We supposedly have an impressive rainstorm heading our way, one that could produce 1-5″ of precipitation in the next 24 hours. We call that showers. We call that welcome, in fact. Despite the rain that we’ve had in the past … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe, House, Mentalist
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Empty DVR
Join us at Bitten By Books today for the EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead chat and contest, starting at noon Central and running into the evening. The anthology authors will answer questions and there are Valuable Prizes at … Continue reading
Posted in Castle, Criminal Minds, CSI, Fringe, House, Law and Order: LA, Mentalist, movies, NCIS, Survivor
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Does Red have some company?
Drought, day 180 (rough estimate). No relief in sight. Finally got around to watching the Criminal Minds finale. I thought from the opening they were going to riff on Matheson’s Duel, with a killer truck driver. Turns out the truck … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Minds, House, The Event, The Killing
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There are no victories. There’s only the battle.
My new essay, Reading Slush, is up at Storytellers Unplugged. I’m really liking these scenes between Goran and the therapist played by Julia Ormond in the return of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. I especially liked the call out to … Continue reading
Posted in Castle, House, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, The Event, The Killing
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The father/daughter version of Grey Gardens
Slowly getting back to work on the novella that’s due at the end of the month. I’ve been doing more thinking about the story than writing, but that’s not a bad thing. Thinking is part of the writing process, after … Continue reading
Posted in Castle, House, Law and Order: LA, The Event
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Sisterhood of the traveling House
Added another 600 words this morning, part of which was revision to earlier text to put in something that I had overlooked. I want to get this done by the end of the month because I have a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in House, Law and Order: LA, The Event
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