Category Archives: Mad Men

Giger counter

I first encountered H.R. Giger when I was in university. As my musical world and tastes broadened, I stumbled upon Emerson, Lake and Palmer, probably at a used record store called Days of Wine and Vinyl. As I worked my … Continue reading

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Is your social worker in that horse?

A weekend spent un-writing, also known as trimming the fat. My work in progress started its life at 5100 words (well, technically it started with 0 words…) and went down to 4200 and then to 3600 and now to just … Continue reading

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The Horror

The day after tomorrow I’ll be on my way to New Orleans for the World Horror Convention. I should get there just in time for the opening ceremony, where I will be talking for a few minutes about the Grand … Continue reading

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Little Orphan Sarah

It was fun seeing David Soul as a guest star on a Season 6 episode of Inspector Lewis. He played a visiting lecturer whose views on the genetic aspects of a criminal mind were controversial. It may be one of … Continue reading

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More boldness

I had a four day weekend and very little of it was spent writing, alas. I did put up a couple of book reviews. CD gave me the green light to post my review of King’s Joyland, which will also … Continue reading

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We boldly went

Note: There will be spoilers herein for Doctor Who and Star Trek, all below the horizontal lines. Didn’t get a lot of writing done this weekend. We took Saturday off. Had a business meeting in the morning that lasted longer … Continue reading

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Chilling tales

I got a rejection e-mail last night. They still sting a little, and I felt good about this particular submission. Then a few minutes later I received the contract and proofs for my story “Road Rage,” which will appear in … Continue reading

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The tube

Just because it’s spring doesn’t mean winter is over yet. Today the temperature has dropped over 25° from what it was this morning as a cold front sweeps through. We might also get ½” of rain or more in the … Continue reading

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Every day, the same old thing

Spent much of the weekend reading over the manuscript for my next book before it goes off to the copy editor. I found a bunch of typos and slip-ups. Not a ton, but enough. I still have a fair amount … Continue reading

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One card short of a full deck

My old message board seems to be toast. I moved it to a different server and it works there, so I can recover the data from it, but I can’t coax it into working on the existing server. I’m going … Continue reading

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