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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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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
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
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The trailers were HOW loud?
My new essay went up on Storytellers Unplugged over the weekend. It’s called Promotional Consideration. We went to see Sherlock Holmes 2 yesterday. Other than the one for Iron Lady, the trailers had one thing in common: they were all … Continue reading
Posted in Burn Notice, Dexter, Mentalist, movies, Survivor
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Tag, you’re it
It used to be that when I entered the company lottery for ham bones left over after our Thanksgiving lunch, I had a pretty good shot at winning one. If there were five available, usually eight or ten people entered … Continue reading
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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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Just me and my demons
Chances of rain this evening and tomorrow. That makes two Fridays in a row, if it comes to pass. Not an end to the drought by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s a start. Had a call from Pete … Continue reading
Posted in Big Bang Theory, Mentalist
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Drum roll, please
The rainstorm yesterday afternoon was productive. About half an inch in some places. Enough to leave the front yard soggy. Not enough to end the drought. It’s supposed to be quite temperate this weekend. Lows in the fifties and highs … Continue reading
The slush pile
I received my contributor copy of Screem magazine yesterday. Haven’t had a chance to look at it in detail yet, but I plan to this weekend. The editor has invited me to write for them again, so now I have … Continue reading
Which way is out?
We had a stretch of fence between us and our neighbors replaced this week. It included a gate. When the workers were finishing up we went to survey the results. Fenced looked good, but the gate was installed backwards! The … Continue reading
It’s there, then it’s gone
Finished up revisions to the second short story that I had to proof this week and got it back to the editor. That’s probably about as much writing work as I’ll get done today. Got some very good news from … Continue reading
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