Oct
11

Happy Birthday! Now Stop Crying…

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Honestly, I have no idea who this little girl is, but her reaction to being allowed to go to Disneyland probably rates an Oscar.  (If YouTube had those sorts of awards…)… Read more
Oct
10

An Open Request

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.  ~~ Nietzsche  Over the last several months I’ve noticed a rather disturbing trend in the writing community. There’s a growing element of dissatisfaction and a holier-than-thou smugness that I find increasingly distasteful. It seems as though everywhere I go, there’s a blog or a tweet or a vitriolic diatribe about how self-pubbing is better than trad pubbing. How agents are Satan incarnate. Publishers are out to screw us. Ebooks are better than paper books. Revolution is coming and it’s great. Change is coming and it sucks. We’re all going to be millionaires. We’re all going to die chewing on our underwear in the gutter. We should push forward and jump off the cliff. We should hold back and see how everything… Read more
Oct
9

Entirely Too Much Time on Their Hands…

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I think I just had a nerdgasm. Yes – these guys actually built The Last March of the Ents. With LEGOS.  Epic Isengard is epic.… Read more
Oct
7

Friday Night WTFkry: The Haunted Vagina Edition

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Yeah, you heard me. Haunted VAGINAS. It’s just been that kind of day, I guess. So…I know it’s near Halloween and all, but I’m really not sure what the deal is with this particular trend, but it sorta boggles my mind that the concept has actually led to at least two variations of it in the last few weeks. Up first is the latest issue of Tarot:Witch of the Black Rose…which apparently involves some sort of zombie nurse chicks on the look-out for the owners of their body parts (which were given to others after they all died in a terrible accident.). One of these is, in fact, a vagina. Nurse zombie *really* wants it back. And I’m just going to let THIS article give you the rest of the scoop on that, because…yeah. It’s really damned nasty. We’ve also got a book, entitled, amazingly enough: The Haunted Vagina.  (Which… Read more
Oct
6

Why I Followed My Agent

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Several weeks ago I got a phone call from my agent, Suzie Townsend. She was letting me know that she would be leaving Fine Print Lit and moving over to Nancy Coffee Literary & Media Representation. I essentially had three choices: 1) Stay with Fine Print Lit and be assigned to another agent. 2) Go off and start the query process again and find a  new agent. 3) Follow Suzie to her new agency. It’s an interesting crossroads, to be sure. For one thing, I’ve been through this before. My original agent left the agenting business about 8 months after I’d started working with her (for health reasons.) The agency did their best to shuffle her clients around and find us a good match. This is harder than it sounds. For one thing, in many ways agenting is a working partnership, albeit an odd one to get. You usually can’t just… Read more