Last year I asked everybody what should be on our NaNoWriMo playlist. And boy, did I get answers! Like 145 of them. I’m going to repost that list for this year, and invite you to contribute your favorite writing songs, as well! Let me know what you think we’re missing out on, and I’ll add it to the list. It’s … Read More
Miss Murder Goes to the Zoo
How’s this for support? Me: Hey, Husband o’ Mine! How do you feel about hitting a book signing at Dark Delicacies in CA? Him: We need a vacation! How about we take the kids and go to the zoo? Me: Okay! Yay, crocodiles! So we loaded the kidlets up, which is no small task now that there are three. And … Read More
So The Police Show Up With My Eight-Year-Old Son…
Sounds like a bad joke, right? Only it isn’t. Through a series of miscommunications and things that would be heartbreakingly comic if I was watching it on TV, my son ended up freaking out on the school bus. So much so that the school police were called. My car had mysteriously died this morning, my baby hadn’t slept all day and … Read More
Whatcha Do Yesterday? I Played with Demons.
Yesterday I signed DEMONS at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, which is probably the coolest bookstore that I have ever seen. It was great! John Skipp is always amazing. A more likable man there never was! I got to hang with the wildly entertaining Laura Lee Bahr (check out her debut novel Haunt), RC Matheson, Zak Jarvis, Cody Goodfellow, and David J. Schow. … Read More
Review: R.B. Wood’s THE PRODIGAL’S FOOLE
I’m delighted to be a participant in R.B. Wood’s The Magical Mystery Blog Tour. His debut novel, The Prodigal’s Foole, is really a delightful read. Why, you ask? It’s full of all of the shiny goodies that I love in a book. A likeable hero. Twists and turns. Romance gone awry. Throw in a battle between the demonic and priests in Kevlar, … Read More
World Fantasy Con 2011 Podcast: The Not-So-Fair Folk
I was over the moon to be on the Not-So-Fair Folk panel at World Fantasy Con 2011. (Look, Ma!) The panel couldn’t have been any better. It was lively, funny, and Holly Black (M), Jenny Blackford, Patrick Rothfuss, and Delia Sherman were knowledgeable, delightful people! I want to stalk all of them forever. Thanks to the wonderful Charles Tan for recording the … Read More
A Wicked Awesome Shock Totem Contest
Hey, everybody! Shock Totem is up to some incredible things. I mean, some really, really cool stuff. I was so excited about Ken’s awesome cypher that I’m just going to post this in its entirety. Give your brain a little exercise and join the contest! It’s all going on at www.shocktotem.com. Ken will take it from here. As some of … Read More
When Your Child Picks the Most Obscene Pumpkin in the Patch
Seriously. I didn’t know what to say. I still don’t. Still, we saved this pumpkin from the unruly frat boy who would have done horrible, horrible things to it. I feel good about this. And since it was my darling four-year-old who chose this particular obscenity, I merely flipped it around and called it a heart. This, dear ones, is … Read More
Shark Art!
The coolest thing happened. Remember my short piece “Public Mourning” that was published in Robert Swartwood’s Hint Fiction anthology? I was all atwitter about it. I was in an anthology with Joyce Carol Oates, for crying out loud! How could things get any better? Well, they managed to, and this is SWEET. The Columbia Art League ( http://www.columbiaartleague.org/ ) in Missouri … Read More
Hey Baby, Going My Way?
To World Fantasy Con, that is. This will be my first time at WFC and I couldn’t be more excited! Wait, scratch that. Suddenly I am much more excited because I found out that not only am I on a panel (ohmygosh! I’m on a panel at World Fantasy!) and not only is the panel about the dark nature of faeries … Read More