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For the first time since July 2019 (when I went to NECON), I boarded an airplane. I can’t say it’s the first time I was at an airport since then because I had to make a few trips to pick … Continue reading →

In November, 2008, I was contacted out of the blue by an editor at becker&mayer! (the exclamation mark is part of their name) to see if I would be interested in writing the text for a book commissioned by Barnes … Continue reading →

Time flies when you’re having fun. (Even when you’re not, the corollary says, but that doesn’t apply to me.) I had been hoping to make The Big Announcement about my next book by now, but I’m still waiting on the … Continue reading →

So, it’s only been five weeks since my last post, so I consider that an improvement over the roughly half-year gap in 2021. Where to begin? Ok, business. I have a short story called “The Lagrange Point” in the anthology … Continue reading →

I became quite delinquent in updating my blog last year. I’m going to try to do better in 2022. I wonder how we would have reacted in March 2020 if we’d known that, two years later, we would still be … Continue reading →

My sorriest list for 2021 is the one for the books I’ve read. I only managed to read 29 thus far (although I do hope to get one or two more in before the end of the year. A lot … Continue reading →

The last movie I saw in a theater was 1917 in January 2020, and I don’t expect that to change soon. We are perfectly content to enjoy new movies as they become available on streaming platforms. I know a lot … Continue reading →

Before I get into my overview of TV, I have an addition to make to my publication list for 2021. Today is publication day for the anthology Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 6, which contains my story “The … Continue reading →

It has been a long time since I posted to my blog. I keep intending to, but there are so many other shiny objects out there to occupy my waking hours, that I kept putting it off. As the end … Continue reading →

My wife and I received our second Moderna vaccine doses on Sunday morning. Out of an abundance of caution, I decided to take yesterday off from the day job, as I’d heard there was a strong possibility of side-effects on … Continue reading →