Mailed "Ogre for Hire" a couple of days ago. 708 pages through a flat rate priority mail for around $9.00, so not bad. It was about four bucks more than the Media Mail rate, but I wanted to get delivery confirmation, just so I know that a year's worth of writing wasn't just floating around in the ether ( Read more... )

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Finished printing out the 708 pages (double-spaced) of my first novel "Ogre for Hire" to mail to DAW Books. Surprisingly, the hand-me-down laser printer I have didn't lock up ( Read more... )

Reached chapter 37 of 'When Gods Awaken', which is over 400 pages in Word. It's turning out to be longer than I had originally envisioned, but is progressing well. It shouldn't be more than 45 chapters total. I figure to be finished in January, barring disaster ( Read more... )

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Well, the comic book I wrote for Garan the Bermudan (sounds like a sitcom) looks like it will actually make it to the published page. I'd seen the artwork, but I wasn't sure it would fly. Looks like it will ( Read more... )

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.

- Jack Handey

If you rob a bank, and your pants fall down, its okay to laugh. and let your hostages laugh too, because come on, life is funny.

- Jack Handey

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.

- Jack Handey

Mom always told me I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up, 'within reason.' When I asked her what she meant by 'within reason,' she said, 'You ask a lot of questions for a garbage man.'

- Jack Handey