My essay “The Tangled Web We Weave” is now up on Storytellers Unplugged. It’s about the work involved in adding something significant to a novel between drafts.
I received my copies of Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner for the ITW. In anthologies, my name doesn’t often make it to the cover, but it did here. If you look very carefully under the R in “Reads,” there’s my name. My last name is also halway down the page on the far left. My essay is about Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon. I haven’t read the piece in quite a while. I like it!
Charles Tan interviews Nancy Kilpatrick about vampires and the Evolve anthology. My name comes up.
“Just my luck to be garotted at the end of turtleneck season,” the enigmatic movie memorabilia shop owner says on Happy Town, episode six. A very cavalier way of shrugging off an attempt on his life. The best part of the episode, though, was his courting of the town’s matriarch. Charming. I also liked the bit with the stranger-in-town and the croquet mallet. A significant breakthrough in the Magic Man case is wasted by the sheriff’s bullet. Only two episodes left (none next week, I understand). First FlashForward and now this…two shows that will vanish with a lot of unanswered questions.
