Since I'll be on the road again shortly, I just wanted to say that this year's convention was really faboo. The Hitchcock panel was fantastic. And I met a number of incredibly sweet, helpful people who listened to my pitch for SILENCE OF THE IAMBS: No Rhyme Goes Unpunished and gave me plenty of great advice. Thank you all for the tremendous support ( Read more... )

Ten years go today, I awoke at 5:48am, deeply anxious, a heaviness in my chest. I shut my eyes and faded out of consciousness for a few moments before my clock radio alarm went off at 6:00am. Voices, shouting. I stared at the clock. 6:03am. I popped the plugs out of my ears ( Read more... )

It's now available through both Amazon and an independent seller.


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My first editing gig!


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I'll be on my first Bouchercon panel this year. Yippee! I'm very excited.

FRENZY
10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.Room: Majestic D ( Read more... )

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In case you hadn't heard, Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana had all government funding stripped from Planned Parenthood and any other group that provides abortion services. They've only got enough money to last them until May 30, 2011. Meanwhile, they're fighting in the courts to get an injunction -- which is going to take a long time ( Read more... )

Chizine has re-published my story, "Bacchus Anesti," as part of their fundraising campaign. This was the second story of mine ever published -- the first was some 10 years before when "Pen and Ink" miraculously slithered into an early issue of Unspeakable Oath. After that, I simply never wrote or submitted another story for many years. Due to ( Read more... )

Katelan Foisy -- La Gitana herself -- will be creating the cover art for my upcoming poetry collection, AT LOUCHE ENDS: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned and the Absinthe-Minded. It's scheduled to be released around the end of May by Burning Effigy Press.

I am immensely happy, especially since it means uniting the Trinity of Trouble -- myself, ( Read more... )

When I arrived at the office this morning, fertility symbols were scattered everywhere in clever hiding places and some kind of "hunt" was afoot. I got a little shiver, as if I could hear Lord Summerisle calling to me: "To each and all, a very blessed Ostara ( Read more... )