Uncategorized

I don’t know what I did. And I’m not Catholic, but I’m hoping confession will make the coming penance more palatable. You see, my 11-year-old daughter, Sara, has moved on from Hilary Duff and now listens to some little boy named Teddy Geiger. Amanda, my four-year-old daughter, informed me yesterday that both she and Sara…

The cat’s outta the bag. This week at work I confessed to being a writer. With books published. You never know how that’s going to go over with co-workers. “What kind of books?” Horror fiction. Then what do they do? Check your hands for knives? Or claws? Think about closing their office doors more often?…

Alex has been staying (a little) busy doing yard work for a neighbor this summer. He’s made some decent money for hard work done in the hottest part of the day sometime. I’d be a lot more proud of him if he’d spend it on better music. Teenagers today have really bad taste. (Yeah, yeah.…

Book! I have books! Copies of Shara arrived in the mail today. ‘Tis a beautiful thing to behold. Kirk’s artwork is even better on the printed cover than in all the electronic images I’ve had. The back cover text is a bit hard to read, but not too bad, and unfortunately it’s the same text…

Like the picture? Alex asked why I never wear the Hawaiian shirt Kim’s parents got me some time back. So I wore it today. Would have forced him to go walk around the mall with me while I wear the shirt and a straw hat, but Kim took the van to work. No A/C in…

On this date in the halcyon days of 1985 I took Kim Hager to be my wife, for better or worse, rich and poorer … You know the drill. We were married at the gazebo in her parents’ back yard by a preacher who was either Baptist or Pentecostal, I think. He was related to…

If you’ve been waiting for the new edition of Shara to become available at Amazon.com, your wait is over. They don’t have the cover image up yet, but the link will take you to the book. What are you waiting for???

Lots of good news from Scrybe Press today! Updates sales figures, contracts, and reassurance on a couple of other projects we’d talked about. The 50-copy print run of a signed/numbered hardcover of Shara has about sold out through Shocklines. Don’t wait! Get yours now! The paperback edition of Seven Days in Benevolence will be out…

Anyone else see the photo of Britney Spears from her TV appearance last week? Man, she looks like trash these days. Who put the clown makeup on her? Anyway, there is a better point to tonight’s subject line. I’ve placed another piece of short fiction with Amazon Shorts. This time, I even sent them the…

The signed copies of my newly re-issued short story collection have arrived at Shocklines! And, much to my surprise, Matt has put Darkscapes in Shocklines’ New Voices Guarantee promotion. So, for $16.95 you get a signed collection of 34 dark-themed horror, fantasy and science fiction tales, and if you don’t like it, Matt will refund…