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Vanity Google searches. It’s amazing what they’ll turn up. I’d forgotten about my old Geocities Web site, which I gave to Josef Ulrik when I moved to Tripod several years ago. If you don’t know that Ulrik is a fictional werewolf, why the hell are you reading my blog? Anyway, there is a message board…

This came up recently on a message board I frequent. What is dark fantasy? How is it different than horror or other fantasy literature? I tried to answer briefly, and seemed to just muddy the water, so I decided to look at the issue a little more closely for this Monday’s “serious” blog entry. The…

My buddy Craig Wolf finally got his Web site up. You should go visit him. It took him forever and a day to get his site online, so go make him feel like it was worth the effort. Then buy his books. The other person you should visit is Karen Koehler. She’s a helluva good…

Got the page proofs for Darkscapes tonight, so I’ll be going over those this week. Looks like the new version will be a few pages longer than the original was. It’s 230 pages, counting a Fine Tooth Press ad on the final page. Did a bit more work on Ulrik this morning. Here’s the latest…

Last weekend, when we had no kids on Saturday night, Kim and I wanted to go see a movie. But there was nothing on we wanted to see. Being at the mall, we wandered over to Suncoast and I picked up the DVD of Darkwolf. The synopsis sounded okay, certainly nothing to get excited over,…

No trip to Ponca City today. Last night Jacob battled the bug that had already gotten to Sara last week and Amanda earlier this week. Like them, he went from playing to puking in not much more than a heartbeat. He spent the evening vomiting and the night kicking the hell out of my back. He…

Another job interview yesterday. Did it go well? Who knows? They said they were interviewing 10 applicants and will do second interviews next week. Of course, this was my second interview there in three weeks. It’s the same state agency where I applied for the temp job a couple of weeks ago. Not getting that…

Not a lot to say. I heard from the publisher at Fine Tooth Press yesterday and he said I should have my galleys of Darkscapes soon — definitely before Thanksgiving. So it’s likely the book will be available before Christmas. Somebody’s actually been buying the used, out-of-print PublishAmerica copies of Darkscapes at Amazon.com. Stop that!…

Research. That pesky stuff that usually goes on before you write a novel or story. How do you do it? How much of it do you need to do? When do you know that you have enough information? As I was pondering what to write for this Monday’s piece, my wife suggested I write about…

Drove to Enid and back. Twice. The kids stayed the night Saturday so Kim and I could go to ‘s party. He’s one of Kim’s co-workers who is losing his job as NeighborCare is taken over by Omni(don’t)Care. It was actually a lot more fun than I expected. Tapestry and his roommate, Taz, are local performance poets,…