10:00-11:00 Marvel X-Men— Following Second Coming, Marvel’s merry mutants are unable to catch a quick breather. As Curse of the Mutants begins, there’s no telling what the vampires have in store for the X-Men...or is there? You’ve got questions & these … [Read more...]

We’ve got storms!  I love it!  Daisy doesn’t mind, either, but that might be because she’s beginning to hint for ice cream. Also, this Saturday at 8:00 PM I’ll be on ISIS Paranormal Radio. Please, call in with questions! … [Read more...]

...are growing things!  I’ve mentioned a couple times, here and on Twitter, that I’m trying to grow a garden this year.  I’ve got some tomatoes planted in the ground down by the old farmhouse, but I’m also experimenting with container … [Read more...]

A note I wrote to myself in the manuscript, that I had forgotten all about: “Next, she detects.” Which may not seem like a big deal, but I promise you, it has made my morning a lot easier. … [Read more...]

Fantastic interview from the Paris Review with E. B. WHITE: INTERVIEWER Do you have any warm-up exercises to get going? WHITE Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. … [Read more...]

What about the creative state?  In it a man is taken out of himself.  He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach.  He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he … [Read more...]

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. --Lawrence Kasdan *** The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk. “It turns out that being exposed to cultures that function differently from our own – from language to social customs to … [Read more...]

As David Pepose puts it, Newsarama “has a new regular feature, Writer’s Workshop, which will be teamed with its sister column Artists’ Alley—where we ask comics professionals to dig deep into how they operate.” I have the honor of being the first … [Read more...]

I don’t have a green thumb, by any stretch of the imagination, but I have been trying to grow things this year.  Plenty of land, right?  And, lo!  I have peppers.  I also have tomatoes (quite a few, actually, but I ate them all before I whipped out the … [Read more...]

I thought you’d like to see the paws that are carrying me along as I finish this book.  It’s a team effort.  Honestly, they’re the brains behind the operation. Daisy. The Poodle. Head of Household.  Boss.  Fashion Icon. (Note: this is not a recent photo, and she would likely … [Read more...]