Category Archives: Covert Affairs

HNY

My first post of 2015. Happy New Year one and all. Turbulent events abroad, so maybe not so happy for everyone, alas. It would be hard to pick a day when that wasn’t true, though. Our first strong blast of … Continue reading

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Movies and TV, oh my

We saw Jon Favreau’s new film, Chef, last weekend. A cute flick. Favreau wrote, directed and starred as the chef who works in a restaurant owned by Dustin Hoffman. He gets into a social media tiff with a food critic … Continue reading

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Super 8

I finished the first draft of a story that I’ve been struggling with yesterday morning. I have to turn it in on Sunday, so the weekend will be spent revising it. I’ll also have a Storytellers Unplugged essay show up … Continue reading

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Smurfs

I always enjoy talking with my agent. We don’t talk all that often, but when we do, I come away feeling energized. I feel like he knows the lay of the land and the best way to approach a new … Continue reading

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Gonna buy five copies

Twenty-four years ago this week, I arrived in Texas with my parents in a Ford Aerostar van containing everything I wanted to bring with me from Canada. I started work for a company then called MSC and I’m still working … Continue reading

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The vote

This weekend I’m going to do something I’ve never done before: Vote in an election in the US. I became a citizen earlier this year, so it’s my first opportunity. It’s been a long time since I voted anywhere in … Continue reading

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Nothing says endless love like capital murder

I finished Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough while waiting for my car to be serviced this weekend. Car is seven years old and has just over 35,000 miles. I joke (though it’s almost true) that I change my oil once … Continue reading

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And then there were dinosaurs

I’ve been getting stories back into submission after allowing a batch of them to lie fallow while I was busy with other things. I only forgot to attach one manuscript to an e-mail, so I guess that’s okay. I posted … Continue reading

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The Commish loses weight. And his moral compass.

I received two atypical rejection letters this week. The first was for a story that had been with the market for about a year. It was a good market, so I was patient, but I queried about it recently, to … Continue reading

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In the Crowd

My essay Faces in the Crowd is now up at FEARNet. It tracks the evolution of King’s new short story collaboration with Stewart O’Nan, “A Face in the Crowd,” essentially from the moment King got the idea in 2004 until … Continue reading

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