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  • Win an ARC of AFTER OBSESSION

    Do you want to be first among your friends to ready After Obsession by me and Carrie Jones? Of course you do! How can you do that? By entering this Goodreads contest to win an advance reader’s copy of the novel!

  • Tornado Day

    I remember working for The Oklahoman newspaper on May 3, 1999, when the F5 tornado went through Moore. It was city council meeting night, and that’s where I was, covering the meeting for the paper. For weeks afterward we did post-tornado stories. (In fact, I was kicked off my beat for a while so they…

  • After Obsession is a Big Book

    LiveJournal Tags: bea,bloomsbury,book expo america,carrie jones,publishing,werewolf saga,werewolves,writing After Obsession, the book I co-wrote with Carrie Jones, is an official Big Children’s Book of BEA. Being a Big Book at Book Expo America is a major thing. Have I mentioned you can pre-order the book at Amazon? What’s that? You prefer Barnes & Noble? No problem!…

  • New Werewolf Saga logo

    I really like the logo I commissioned from the very talented Deena Warner several years ago. I like the stone-cut look, the color, the images, and, really everything about it. Except for the fact it doesn’t transfer well to any kind of print source. It’s just too dark and too detailed. So, since my oldest…

  • We’ll never be as young as we are right now

    If you didn’t already know it, I’m a big fan of Jim Steinman. The man is just brilliant. And he’s a snazzy dresser. In my (not so) humble opinion, Steinman has written some of the best songs of the 20th century. Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, even Kiss can’t compete with Steinman, the mastermind who penned the…

  • Bullies

    Several months ago I was asked by Carrie Jones to write an essay for an anthology she was editing with Megan Kelly Hall. The book was to be a collection of essays by authors discussing bullies. I thought it was a nice gesture for Carrie to invite me to submit, and I kind of felt…

  • How things have changed

    Over the past couple of months my writing time has been spent in ways totally alien to me before meeting and writing a book with Carrie Jones in 2008. I’ve learned a lot about working with a legitimate agent and a major publishing house, and about writing for young adults. I thought I’d share a…

  • Leisure screwing authors

    If you care about the well being of those who provide your reading entertainment, please take a moment and read this blog post from Brian Keene.

  • The flora of home

    The other day, quite by accident, I was able to put a semi-familiar word with a very familiar object. Hydrangea. I knew the name from books, but, as with most plant life, I didn’t know what a hydrangea bush looked like. Well, that’s what I thought. Turned out I knew exactly what one looked like…

  • Testing Windows Live Writer

    I downloaded Windows Live Writer, which is supposed to make blogging easier. I’m not sure how, as it isn’t really a problem to log in to WordPress and write a blog. Here we have a picture I’ve inserted. This was my sig when I wrote the Mr. Traffic column for The Daily Oklahoman in 1999-2000.…