BEA/Writer's Digest Conference

The BEA/Writer's Digest Conference is tomorrow, and I'm gathering all the essentials: Rope ... check Blowtorch ... check Pliers ... check Pen to sign contract ... check OK, I think I'm ready. Wish me luck. But seriously, I'm amazed at how much preparation is necessary. I have a full-page checklist of things I need to do. On my list, oddly enough, is renewing my driver's license, because with my luck I'll get pulled over ... with a body in...

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[Blank] Friday

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, animals both domesticated and wild, you are here.Many blogs I visit seem to have some weekly thing--YA-Wednesday, This Week in Publishing, Movie Review Monday, and so on. I've decided in that great tradition of trying-to-get-visitors-to-my-blog-without-being-conspicuous ... pause here for dramatic drum roll ... to create Fallout Friday--No, that's not good at all. Wait! How about Freaky Friday. No, that's...

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Field Guide & Fungi

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, animals both domesticated and wild, please turn on your creepy background music now.I've managed to blaze through nearly 1000 items between Monday and today and wanted to continue with a few more links o' interest.A new site called Matthew Corbett's World is up at Robert McCammon's site, which is a cornucopia of information, media and such related to the three-book series. One of the cooler things is a live...

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Another heaping pile of ... links

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, animals both domesticated and wild, if this blog suddenly stops, it is because they finally got me ... Shhh. I think they're coming.Still running through a gauntlet of feeds, still a 1000+ to go, still more to share.Today's selection begins with another movie, one that I can't put my finger on exactly. It's the reason I find it so cool. It might actually be something unpredictable ... I would daresay, gasp,...

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Miscellaneous Debri

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, animals both domesticated and wild, prepare to be amazed ... just not here.I've been neglecting the web in order to finish my--hopefully!--final revision of Sowen. This is one of the slower revisions because of other commitments interfering and because I'm finally forced to finish the little details I have been putting off.The web, however, has not not forgotten me. I've been trying to get through all of my...

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Mister, Mister

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, animals both domesticated and wild, please deposit one hopeless dream before continuing ...Over at Robert McCammon's blog , the new cover art for Mister Slaughter is up. Hell Yeah! I'm glad Subterranean has taken over the publishing duties. Pocket Books put little to no effort into the series.And because I'm talking Mister, I've just finished listening to the audiobook of Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker.As...

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Jonathan Harker's Blog Entry

Whitney Sorrow's doing a most wonderful thing. She is putting together Bram Stoker's Dracula into blog form. It makes perfect sense to take Stoker's epistolary novel and publish it as a blog. I wish I had the time or energy for such a task, and I'm grateful to Mrs. Sorrow for her efforts. The blog will coincide with the actual dates of the journal entries, as Mrs. Sorrow says, "So the audience may experience the drama as the characters would...

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