Friday, March 24, 2023

Scares That Care AuthorCon II—March 31–April 2 in Williamsburg, VA

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Next weekend! Scares That Care AuthorCon II , (March 31–April 2) at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Williamsburg (50 Kingsmill Roa...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Purely Medicinal—Wicked Sick

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Wicked Sick is a new anthology edited by Kristi Petersen Schoonover and Scott Goudsward , scheduled for release next month....
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Ain’t That the Shit, Part 2 (Finale, Hopefully)

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After spending a full workweek installing a new sewer line at our house, the crew finished up late Friday afternoon, so Brugger an...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Ain’t That the Shit, Part 1 (Probably)

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Water troubles in the homeplace have always been the bane of my existence. Sometimes, I really hate the fact that water is among ...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Kolchak, Dark Shadows on Rondo Award Ballot

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Although not solely for my own work, it’s mighty gratifying that two books to which I contributed are on the ballot for the 21st Annua...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Evil Dr. Evil

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In this case, “ Dr. Evil ” refers to a series of “extreme” geocaches, placed by a handful of local geocachers, deep in the subterranean...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Take a Stalk on the Wild Side

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Today, I had the pleasure of running into more fellow geocachers out on the trail than I usually see at a geocaching event. My newest ...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

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Congrats to editor James Aquilone — and all the contributors (hey, one of them is me!) — for the Kolchak: The Night Stalker   50th A...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

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Another geocache maintenance outing today, again to the Osprey Trail up by Lake Townsend . I hiked out to work on a couple more of my...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Things You Find Along the Trail

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I frequently find odd things when I’m out trail hiking, and some of them make one wonder “Why this ?” Today, it was a plastic bag cont...

The Fugue Devil Goes to School, the Old West House, and Kau

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Author, professor, and good friend, Dr. Leverett Butts A full da...
Monday, February 13, 2023

The One-Man Chainsaw Brigade: Huzzah!

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It took three weekends of chainsawing, hauling wood, stacking wood, and massaging sore muscles with various libations, but... at l...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Really Gorgeous, Really Well-Done, Really Good Stuff...

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Author/reviewer Christine Morgan ’s review of  Fugue Devil: Resurgence  makes my day and re-ignites my creative energy. Thank you, Ch...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

Return of the Living Dead Bedtime Story

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It's one of those days when the compulsion to go hiking grabbed me before I even got out of bed. In the absence of any new nearby ...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Wicked Sick: Maladies to Anticipate

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A while back, I wrote the introduction to a new anthology featuring work by members of the New England Horror Writers group,...
Friday, February 3, 2023

The One-Man Chainsaw Brigade, Part Deux

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A couple of weeks back, on my regular Pleasant Hill visit ( "The One-Man Chainsaw Brigade," 2023-01-27 ), the backyard was...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Anthology

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My contributor copy of Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Anthology from Moonstone Books is in the house. This on...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

It’s the Work... and Then Some

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I decided to drag this post from Facebook over to my blog, mainly for posterity’s sake. It is surely vaguebooking to those w...
Friday, January 27, 2023

The One-Man Chainsaw Brigade

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I posted last week that the prodigious rainfall of the past month or so (with yet more in the forecast) did the root systems o...