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One thing I didn’t mention the other day is my progress on a novelette I’m calling Little Graveyard on the Prairie. I’ve had an open invitation to submit to the novelette line of a respected small press for a while now, and this idea has been bumping around in my head for years, so I’m…

Nothing much to report, but there are a few little things to comment on. First, I guess I’ll mention that there is a young director interested in my script of Murdered by Human Wolves. This is still very, very preliminary. There’s no funding yet. The director is in post production on his first feature film…

Some time back, Nick Cook interviewed me. That interview has found a home in Issue 5 of Dark Recesses magazine. Nick asked some pretty good questions. You can click here to read the interview.

You may recall I mentioned a while back that I tentatively had a book signing scheduled for Dec. 16 at Full Circle Books in Oklahoma City. Well, now they’ve decided they want me to bring my own books and sell them on consignment. The store will take 30 percent of whatever I sell. That bites.…

Snippet of a conversation held with a 7th grade female student today: Me — “Ethel*, why aren’t you doing your assignment?”Ethel — “I don’t want to.”Me — “You really need to get some paper out and do the work.”Ethel — “Ain’t I pretty?”Me — (dumbfounded) “That’ll only get you so far. Do the work.” *…

I was gonna do a long post about this past weekend’s FenCon. But, honestly, I’m so tired I can barely keep my eyes open. It was fun. I sold more books than I did at any other convention this year. Saw several old friends, talked some business, griped about the state of the small press,…

I’ve told a few classes that when I’m not doing substitute teaching I write horror fiction. There are then usually a few students who want to know more. There’s a good chance some of them might eventually end up reading this blog. (Maybe one’s reading right now.) At any rate, profane rants are hardly professional…

I’m sure there have been multiple blog and message board posts today about the passing of Charles L. Grant. Other than a bulletin posted by Stephen Mark Rainey on MySpace, I haven’t read them. Charlie is one of those people just about everyone liked. Almost nobody will say anything bad about Charlie Grant. I regret…

Going into this substitute gig I expected to like teaching junior high/middle school kids. Alex is in junior high. Sara would be in middle school if our system was set up that way. I’m familiar with that age. And that’s what I taught the first two days. Mostly it was good, too. Sixth hour in…

Today I learned that you can’t be too picky about accepting substitute work. I held out last night, not taking the elementary school and learning disability jobs that came in, thinking I’d be inundated with calls between 5-6:30 a.m. this morning, like I have been for the past few weeks. Didn’t happen. So I spent…