Friday, December 31, 2010

The War Lords of Leng

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A nice way to end the year. Robert M. Price, editor of From Secret Asia's Blackest Heart , has accepted my recently completed short stor...
Monday, December 27, 2010

BALAK Now Available on Kindle, Nook

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My first novel, Balak , has been set free to run amok once more, in the form of an e-book release (Kindle and Nook formats), as well as an a...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Black Tooth Pond

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Confession is good for the soul, so they say, and maybe today a good unloading is in order. Back behind Martinsville High School, my old a...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Big Old Stomp That Rocked My World

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Or ... A Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On The following originally appeared in G-Fan magazine, issue #70, Winter 2005 One evening in th...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Caching Through the Snow...

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How nice to have a good old friend, Dr. Beth Walton (a.k.a. UNCGBogTurtle) return to Greensboro from Illinois to visit for several days. Got...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

THE MONARCHS Revisited

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Thanks to a certain publisher's interest in my novel, The Monarchs, which I originally wrote in 2007, I have my schedule pretty much la...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Everyone Loves a Parade

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Except me. And — based on the road rage that was spreading like wildfire over the course of an hour — pretty much every driver passing throu...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Damned Rodan's Dirty Firetini

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Apart from the occasional glass of wine, a fiery hot dirty martini is about the only thing I imbibe anymore. It's killer good, so here...

I Never Eat December Snow

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About every month or so, it's necessary to make the pilgrimage over to Chapel Hill...no, I'm not particularly a Tarheel fan (sorry, ...
Friday, December 3, 2010

My Gums Feel Like Bloody Royalty

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Which is what happens when a freakin' tooth breaks and you have to get a crown. This one hurts. Don't remember the last one hurting....
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Ye Big Olde Birdie Day

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Much big bird was consumed and enjoyed today...and then at least partially walked off on a couple of long and invigorating hikes around Mart...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER Now Available as an Audio Book

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And it's here from Crossroad Press. Narrated by Basil Sands, for a very reasonable $12.99. Currently, order it from directly from Cross...

Potter Fever

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Friday, November 19, 2010

All That Jazz...Here and On the Way

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Having lots of my written work hitting the street within a relatively short span of time. If you've not checked out my fiction — short, ...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Geocaching the Twin Peaks of Leng's Deathly Hallows

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It's been a very full weekend of writing, geocaching, writing, reading, watching a bit of Twin Peaks, and writing. My new tale, "T...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Deadlines and 3K Looming

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Mercy...been otherwise occupied so much, haven't updated the blog in a while. Largely, working on a new Cthulhu Mythos story, which is g...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Writing, Reading, Tricking & Treating

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It was one busy October, with lots of activities, writing, and traveling to keep me out of trouble, at least kinda. The final week of the...
Monday, October 25, 2010

A Sleepy Hollow-een

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Lyndhurst, a.k.a. Collinwood, from House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows Periodically, it's necessary to make the pilgrimage...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Damn That Betty White!

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Old Rodan in the middle of a predicament. Back from a none-too-profitable but all-too-entertaining book-signing event in Williamsburg, VA...

Dark Visions

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Wow...been too occupied to blog this past week, but here's a late notice. If you're in range of Williamsburg, VA, drop into the Coll...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

The Devil's Caching Ground

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New blog entry by the old dude about The Devil's Tramping Ground at Elder Signs Press ...very fitting for the Halloween season. Check it...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Swamp Thing?

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Headed out this afternoon for a hike along the Haw River, in Alamance County, to hunt a number of geocaches. Put in about three miles on a c...

Short Stuff, Long Stuff, and In-Between Stuff

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New short story, titled "Beneath the Pier," which I've been working on this week—all done and ready to be sent to editor. Now...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Devils, Caches, and Crowns

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A most invigorating weekend. Yesterday, headed up to Martinsville to visit Mum, stopping off at the brand new Shallow Ford trail system in ...

THE LEBO COVEN and THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER Now Available From Crossroad Press

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The Lebo Coven , originally released by Thomson-Gale/Five Star Books in 2004, is now available as an e-book from Crossroad Press. Here...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Ghost in the Machine Meets Old Dude

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Several weeks back, Ms. Gail Z. Martin, author and proprietor of the Ghost in the Machine podcast site, conducted a telephone interview wit...
Monday, September 20, 2010

We All Scream!

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Very nice geocaching event in High Point last night, at Bruster's Ice Cream, starring most of the local caching crowd. Headed over early...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Geo Drive-Thru

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Went after a few geocaches tonight, one at a boarded-up drive-thru out near the airport. There was a state trooper parked just across the wa...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Under the Pier and Other Excursions

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Lots of lounging seagulls on the beach all weekend long Spent a long weekend at Surfside Beach, SC, with some friends, which was just ...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Up to Abergavenny

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Wow..."Abergavenny" by Marty Wilde (a.k.a. Shannon), father of '80s singer Kim Wilde, is one of those songs that I heard a han...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Belabored Again

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It was a bear of a week at the office, but it's been a good week for writing, reading, watching stuff, and caching. Picked up a few new ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Distractions and Other...What?

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Sometimes, I'm easily distracted. It was a sleepy morning, so I figured I'd make a pot of coffee. I was about to start things going ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Pandora's Box

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Another superb geocaching adventure today, courtesy of Chris "Vortexecho" Whittemore, over yonder in Durham—a 5-difficulty/5-terra...