A Broken Laptop

1) Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive. 2) NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we’re speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words. 3) They must ALREADY be on your hard drive – no googling [...]

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Two of them, and they’re both positive reviews.  Hooray!  The first is by Cate Gardner.   You can read her review here. The second is by Steven Pirie. His review is located here. Thanks for taking the time to review Shock Totem, you guys! That was very, very cool.

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I have a dilemma:  I’m genreless.  I have no genre.  I’m currently running with the horror crowd, yes, but do my stories elicit dread?  (I mean, intentional dread, not “Oh my gosh, this writing is awful!” dread.)  I watch lame PG-13 movies with my hands over my eyes, so does this strip me of my [...]

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So I had this dream.  It was a couple of years ago, and it was horrifyingly vivid.  It had to do with a couple of policemen who walked into a gas station, and the situation that ensued.  I have a dream journal where I record my more powerful dreams because it seems to exorcise them, [...]

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My family has gone and I am here alone.  Even the cicadas have chosen to be silent.  I can hear the sporadic tap-tapping of my keyboard and the sound of my own breathing.  When is the last time that I listened to my breath?  I’ll tell you: it was forever ago, when I wrote “Life”.  Everybody [...]

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My issue of Shock Totem just arrived, and it is absolutely stunning.  Mine has a special addition of confused,  foul-mouthed crows on the inside front cover (Thanks, Ken!), and everything is shiny and glossy.  I put it out of the children’s reach, and I can’t wait to pour through and read the stories.  That will [...]

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Seriously, how could he not?  I don’t think that I’ve written a single creative work this week.  Some blog posts, a few emails.  I paid bills and entertained old friends and my father came to visit.  But My Demonic Demon Novel: A Novel About Those Darn Demonic Demons! (or, you know, whatever I’ll call it) [...]

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I told you that I was struggling about how best to deal with Things of a Delicate Nature. While I was fighting this personal battle, I read this post by Aaron Polson and I thought, “Amen, brother!” Apparently I’m not the only one feeling the heat. It seems that ugliness is being spread far and wide. I [...]

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I went with a group of 15 to “The Secret Garden” at the Utah Shakespearean Festival on Friday.  It was wonderful, and I felt homesick for the stage.  I flirted with theatre in high school and college, enough to grow addicted to the pre-show jitters and the scent of Febreze.  Then we stayed in the family [...]

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