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I’ve been using (and re-using) a joke that goes like this: The last time I saw a movie in a theater was 1917. It only makes sense if you remember the great Sam Mendes war movie of that name, filmed … Continue reading →

Where the hell did February go? We even got an extra day this year and still…gone. Finito. So, what’s new? Well, on September, 2024 I’ll have a new book on shelves…bookstore shelves and library shelves, if all goes according to … Continue reading →

The interview that almost wasn’t: Beyond Horror: The Enduring Impact of Stephen King. I was interviewed by Tim Webster for the Overnights show on Australian public radio. Webster is a self-avowed fan of King’s work and was a knowledgeable interviewer. … Continue reading →

I’m trying to get back in the swing of things after a two-week vacation visiting family in northern California. That’s the longest I’ve been away from home in a long, long time. It’d been a year and a half since … Continue reading →

The year 2023 is almost at an end and we’re staring down the barrel of 2024, which looks like it may be an “interesting” one, in the Chinese curse sense of the word. I find it instructive to listen to … Continue reading →

Brian Keene and Christopher Golden announced (finally!) the anthology they are co-editing: The End of the World as We Know it – Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. Brian has been hinting about this project for some time, under the … Continue reading →

Months go by in the blink of an eye. I could blog more. I should blog more. And yet there never seems enough time. It’s not like I don’t have news to share—there’s always something going on that I might … Continue reading →

It’s been a while. Lots of water under the bridge in the past few months but, more importantly, lots of water in front of the beach house where we spent the last week. For nearly 20 years, my wife and … Continue reading →

Three years ago this week, I grabbed my laptop and peripherals, important documents and a few personal objects and left my office at the corporate headquarters for the last time, turning my home office into a dual-purpose location. One computer … Continue reading →

A couple of last-minute additions to my year-end stuff. My new Benjamin Kane story “A Woman Called Rage” appears in the charity anthology The Place Where Everyone’s Name is Fear. The anthology consists of essays, poetry and short fiction. All proceeds go … Continue reading →