If you happen to be meandering around the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, California, on this Saturday night at 5pm with nothing to do, you could do worse than to attend my reading. Well, maybe not much worse. The upside to attending? My best performances of two favorite stories. Plus, good seats for Terry [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Subliminal
When I was a kid, I’d often steal my father’s hurricane radio–”For storms and other emergencies only!”–and listen to it while going to sleep. I’m not entirely sure why, though I suspect it had much to do with my fear of the dark: having strangers transmitting to me from thousands of miles away somehow gave [...]
Too Much Travel
Though this doesn’t bode well for any future multi-city book tours, I was away from home for about a week and a half, and it got old fast. I did learn some things, however: Homestead Suites is not a place for happy people. If you’re staying in one, you’re likely working a long-term construction contract, [...]
Necronomicon!
Why, yes, I’ll be appearing once again at my “home” convention, Necronomicon, all weekend from October 23rd to the 25th at the Hilton Bayfront in St. Petersburg. I’ll be holding forth with feigned authority on the following topics: Saturday, 5pm: Meanwhile: Day Jobs for Writers Saturday, 10pm: You Don’t Have to Be Screwed Up to [...]
The Superfluous: A Very Necessary Thing
You know how everybody has an elderly relative who, as time marches on and neurons turn to jelly, becomes obsessed with weird trivia? He or she asks things like, “So, how long did it take you to get here on Route 5?” and “Are those size ten shoes?” and “You reckon that squirrel there weighs, [...]
Oh, Yeah: People are Involved
This December marks the ten year anniversary of my first short story sale, “Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby!” to Weird Tales. Since then, I’ve sold some thirty other stories to all sorts of great places, and thankfully I’ve gotten better at it. “Remembrance is Something Like a House” from the forthcoming Interfictions 2 anthology has as much [...]