Tuesday, April 29, 2008

FTF! TN, LN, SL. TFTC!*

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Damn. I'm bone tired from the past few weeks of regular physical exertion. Last year at this time, when I was this tired, it was usually...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Winter Frights

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I announced while back that David Montoya had accepted my story, "Sarcophagus," for Magus Press's Winter Frights anthology, b...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Catching Up

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There's no time like your wife being in surgery to catch up on some reading. No, nothing real major this time. Peg's eyelids were...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Cache In, Trash Out

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Yesterday morning, I headed out to the Peninsula Trailhead, not far up the road, and joined with about 30 other geocachers for a cache-in,...
Friday, April 18, 2008

It's Better to Forgive, Right?

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Last night, I came about as close to doing something I'd regret as I ever have. Peg and I were heading down the highway near our house, ...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Shellfish Behavior

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A royalty check arrived from Wildside Books today. How handy, as Mrs. Death and I went out to a nice gathering of geocachers at J. Butler...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

AFK

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It's been one of those weeks, so I've been fairly scarce at the usual online haunts. Actually, getting away from the computer for s...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

The Deluge

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Next person who says we're still in the middle of a drought, I'm going to swat them in the head. If we're still short of water, ...
Thursday, April 3, 2008

It Knows About You

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Well, of course your cat does. That's what cats do. They know things. But tonight, we're talking about the Fugue Devil. If you know...
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

April Fools Day

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I fooled not a single soul today.
Friday, March 28, 2008

Five Out of Six...

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...geocaches found after work today (plus one first thing this morning). Lots of hiking and bushwhacking involved, but it is teh awesome. Re...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Help

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A slightly revised version of one of my earliest short stories, "Festival of the Jackal (Off Broadway)," will be appearing in the ...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

The Hunt

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Not for eggs but for microcaches. In lieu of the traditional Easter egg hunt, Mrs. Death and I went out geocaching this afternoon. Foun...
Friday, March 21, 2008

The Pinocchio Lady

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Sometimes I miss the days of making prank phone calls. When I was between the ages of 10 and 15, give or take a decade or so, I was the di...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Nothing in Life Is Certain Except Death From Taxes

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Gaah. I hates me some income taxes. Been working on them the last couple of nights. Looks like we're pretty much breaking even this year...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Stellarcon Done, More Caching In

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Stellarcon turned out pretty good this year, though it started off slowly on Friday evening, with a non-existent audience for what I thought...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

How to Thoroughly Devalue the Limited Edition of Your Upcoming Book

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In my case, sign the signature sheets. Done, and shipped back to the publisher. In fact, cover artist Wayne Miller and I met for dinner last...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

StellarCon Schedule

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I'll be a guest at StellarCon/DeepSouthCon at the Downtown Radisson in High Point, NC, this weekend (3/14–3/15). In case you're dead...
Sunday, March 9, 2008

Clockses

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In this day and age, resetting the clocks is stupid. Daylight Savings Time or the other, I care not which, but it oughta be left alone. So...
Friday, March 7, 2008

It's Kill Jack Haringa in Your Blog Day

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So... Since dressing himself that morning, Haringa had felt his pants getting crankier, so it seemed appropriate that he assuage their orner...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Wacky Packages

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If you're an old fart like me, you might remember Wacky Packages. They were cards and stickers produced by Topps that depicted popu...
Saturday, March 1, 2008

Down by the River

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Spent a few pleasant hours this morning geocaching in Martinsville with Peg. We drove out to Fieldale, a nice, rural community in Henry Co...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Almost Didn't Make It Into Work Today

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Couldn't brush my teeth.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Our Mail Carrier Was Very Considerate Today...

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...and left a bunch of good stuff. Received an anticipated royalty check without having to nudge the publisher even a single time, which ...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

There Shall Be No Deathrealm

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I keep having these dreams that I'm editing Deathrealm again, and things keep going horribly wrong. I've just sent an issue to...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

UDDER GODS now up for pre-order

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Moooo yeah! Ready for pre-order, my upcoming collection of very scowy tales from Dark Regions . Ye olde book description: "Spanning a c...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

The James Bond 007 Soundtrack Revue

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A few years back, as some of you may know, I put together a Web site dedicated to the music of the James Bond movies. (Yes, I am indeed s...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

On the Auction Block

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One of the schools in Martinsville is having a fund-raising auction, so I offered to donate a copy of The Last Trumpet in case there a...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Caching In

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A most satisfying weekend, though it included some slight physical injury. Peg and I went up to my old hometown in Virginia and stayed at my...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

R. I. P. Barry Morse

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If you were ever a fan of Space: 1999 back in those glorious '70s, you no doubt remember Barry Morse, who played the stern but kindly ...
Saturday, February 2, 2008

Beth Massie's HOMEPLACE

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Beth Massie is known for writing a wide variety of types of fiction — from cutting-edge horror to historical drama to young adult adventure...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Pitfalls

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I originally posted the bulk of this blog as a response to another, but it's a subject that I feel worthy of rehashing—particularly give...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

HPLHS's The Whisperer in Darkness

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Most folks who have read a word I've ever written, fiction or otherwise, know that I'm a die-hard fan of H. P. Lovecraft's work...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The New Frontier

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My contributor copies of Frontier Cthulhu arrived in the mail today, so I smiled for a while. It's the new Chaosium anthology edited by...
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Burglars Bite

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Our next-door neighbors were gone this past week, so Thursday about midnight, I go over to let out their dog. While Lucky goes winkle, I no...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Mo Horrors, Mo*Con

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My contributor copies of Elder Signs Press's Horrors Beyond 2 anthology arrived today; another fabulous job by William Jones and ESP. ...
Friday, January 11, 2008

OTHER GODS Cover Is in the House

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Artist Wayne Miller sent the cover art for Other Gods this evening. Pretty dang sharp. I rather like. I've also set up a new in...
Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Hidden Voices

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If you're hanging out in this neighborhood, it's a near-certainty that you're into creepiness. Because, yes, thanks for asking, ...
Monday, December 31, 2007

The Inevitable Recap

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These days, if there's any significance whatsoever to the calendar flipping over to a new year, it's nothing I particularly care for...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

I Think It's Gonna Be a Long, Long Time

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Mercy, I haven't seen this one in a long time. I remember when it first aired, and I asked my roommate to please drive nails into my h...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

I Loves Me Some Christmas

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Always have. In fact, the time of year between Halloween and the new year is always my favorite. Well, Halloween being Halloween, it just ra...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Musical Monkey Shines!

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I received a treasure today. The first record album I remember listening to as a wee young 'un was Walt Disney's Musical Monkey Shin...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

OTHER GODS Scheduled for Spring 2008 Release

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Received the contract and check from Dark Regions Press today for Other Gods, and it's been added to Dark Regions' Web site , so I r...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Just What One Needs Going Into the Holidays....

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A blasted cold bug. Got the icky congestion, low-grade fever, achy joints, light sensitivity, the works. Came home early from work, loaded m...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

I Love This Book

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Got a royalty check today for my story ("Bloodlight") in Love in Vein II, a 1997 anthology edited by Poppy Z. Brite. Not a big ch...