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Friends of mine, James Reasoner and his family, lost all their belongings yesterday in a wildfire that raced through their little piece of T...

Some of you might know that I'm an Assistant Editor for The Dark Man (TDM), the Journal of Robert E. Howard studies. Since I'm sti...

Feeling pretty swamped at the moment so I thought I would run the first in a series of pictures of my bookshelves and books. There are many...

I thought I might review a few books that have to do with writing. Hope you don’t mind some strong opinions. Ray Bradbury: Zen in the Ar...

Joe Ricks, a friend of mine and another faculty member at Xavier, and I were talking yesterday about a phenomenon he calls “Need for Cogniti...

CS Harris over on her blog has a lot more on the topic of brancing. CS (Candice) is also in my writing group and it was she who brought th...

My writing group talked last night about "branding" for authors. No, this isn't a roundup of recalcitrant writers to be marke...

Bobbie Fischer’s death started me thinking about the use of chess in fiction. One of my favorite anthologies of all time is Pawn to Infinit...

I must interrupt my regularly scheduled blogging to announce that Bobby Fischer has died at age 64 in Iceland, apparently of kidney failure,...

The January Illuminata is up with a longish, somewhat technical, piece from me called “A Grammar Primer.” (It’s the January 08 issue.) Th...

Well, there were five folks in the audience for my talk. One of them was Lana. Nevertheless, I thought it went pretty well. Everyone seem...

My post today is just a referral to Moonrat's incredible post on the issue of publishing "rights." Moonrat is an editor and ...

Since I’m getting ready for another presentation I thought I might post again on public speaking. I talked about it several times last year...

Being lazy and very busy, I steal my post today from the: ST. TAMMANY PARISH LIBRARY NEWS RELEASE. Below is quoted from their promotional ...

Back in traffic today. Back driving across the 24 mile Causeway Bridge with the sun just coming up pink over the lake. Back dealing with s...

Mostly an update today. I’ve been working on getting ready for school, and found out yesterday that a textbook I was going to use for a cla...

A book was delivered to my door today. That’s not an unusual occurrence. But this one I didn’t pay for. That’s a bit more unusual. Micha...

Sorry I didn't get around to anyone's blog yesterday. I spent most of the day on the couch watching football. Unfortunately, there...

Well I received a nice bit of recognition over on The Rising Blogger . My post "A Dream of Fire" was named "Post of the Day....

Yesterday I posted some rejections from my past. Today I have current news. Dreams and Nightmares accepted a poem from me called "B...