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Inheritance update: 18,915 / 25,000(75.7%) Almost 2,000 words tonight. Under the influence of Nyquil, no less. Damn head cold! It came on yesterday afternoon, announcing itself with a slightly scratchy throat before closing off my nasal passages. What I wrote may be crap. The main action of tonight’s chapter is the mother chaining the two…

15,857 / 25,000(63.4%) I changed the name of my book from Pain to Inheritance. That title may or may not stick. It’s more fitting, but still feels a bit common. I ripped off a pretty good chapter tonight, I think, and I sat down without a clue what the chapter would be about. I just…

Hey, uh, did I mention that my haunted house novella Seven Days in Benevolence is finally available? Well, it is. Click here to spend money on me. Here’s a blurb lifted from a recent review that ran in Hellhotes: “Let me warn you…this is not your grandmother’s haunted house novel.  The story creeps up on…

A week ago right now I was sitting in a chase lounge on the patio outside Erik and Laurie Alk’s hotel room at Horrorfind. I think Drew Williams had already scared the hell out of a nearby group of walking drunks by yelling “Surprise buttsecks!” as loud as possible. I was still several hours from…

Students returned to school today. I don’t have much experience to compare it to, but it felt like a really good first day. So far I’m not able to point at any kid and say, “You’re going to give me problems.” That might change as we get into the lessons, but for now they seem…

Is it over? Already? Damn! Once again, it was an incredibly good time. It was great to see old friends like Nanci Kalanta (my boss at Horror World), Ron Dickie, Marcy and G Italiano, Greg Lamberson, Erik and Laurie Alk, Nikki Reinhardt, Gord Rollo, Kelli Jones, and others I know I’m forgetting. Then there were…

10,063 / 25,000(40.3%) That’s for the novella still tentatively titled Pain. I didn’t get anything done on it for a couple of days, but knocked off a couple thousand words today. I also heard from Scrybe Press this evening. I should have page proofs for Seven Days in Benevolence tomorrow morning. Well, THIS morning now.…

Here’s something I haven’t said in a while: I had a short story accepted for publication. Actually, if you recall the other day I panicked a little because I hadn’t sent an Ulrik excerpt to Werewolf Magazine. Well, I remedied that, and they’ve accepted the piece for publication in the next issue, No. 7, which…

Voting in yesterday’s poll hasn’t been overwhelming. C’mon people, I need input. Got some work done on Pain tonight. Well, this morning. Whatever. 7,732 / 25,000(30.9%) I still don’t like the title. An appropriate title would be something like Mother and Daughter or Sins of the Mother. But those sound so common. The story is…

My Horrorfind Weekend reading time has been changed. (Thank you, Nikki!!) I’m now reading at 6 p.m. on Saturday, and am paired with the mega-talented and feisty Beth Massey. I was at her reading last year. You don’t want to miss her. Well, you know … you want to come for me, too. Anyhoo, I’m…