It looks like at the very least, the reviewers of RT Book Reviews magazine love my irascible scamp (read: promiscuous, politically incorrect, and down right nasty zombie bitch). Seriously! I have a picture to prove that she’s been nominated for an award. FOR REALZ! I can’t even begin to tell you how much I peed myself when I found out. Sure it’s ( Read more... )

Dr. Nicole Peeler stormed into Seattle last week for a wedding and touristing and so we checked out some local color and ate way too much AND treated a well attended Ravenna Third Place Books crowd to mucho dirtiness (yes, there may have been a public erotic reading).

Sunday I took the Doctor on a tour of infamous Tacoma landmarks including the ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I’ll be heading up to Seattle to hang with Nicole Peeler and the rest of the Team Seattle crew as we help usher in Kat Richardson’s newest baby book, Labyrinth!

Bet there: 7:00 at University Bookstore!

I’ve been told there’ll be drankin’ and chattering and such, so can’t wait.

Then on Wednesday, August 4th!!!!

Nicole and I will be plopping ( Read more... )

…here’s some shit that nearly killed me today.

1. Nick Kroll is freakin’ hilarious. From Fabrice Fabrice to the Ed Hardy Boyz, you gotta check him out. Here’s some stand up that made me cry like a funeral home full of grass pollen.


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2. Antoine!

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I’m pretty sure this one is self- ( Read more... )

First up!

Tonight I’ll be taking part in the Kiss Me Deadly chat for the release of that YA paranormal romance anthology. If you look for me there, I’ll be Danny Marks, so don’t go calling me Mark or nothin’ cuz I’ll be like “Who?” I guess what I’m saying is don’t bring all the young adult readers over here to the darkness too soon, their parents ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like my conference attendance for the year has come to a close. While everyone I know (who write and are big geeks) hams it up in Atlanta and/or San Diego. I’ll be cursing them from my spot at the kitchen table, or Starbucks or the odd library carrel.

It seems conference attendance requires money (unless your books are selling like ( Read more... )

So I just finished listening to Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I’d been at it all week. If you’ve never read/heard Vonnegut, get thee to a bookstore/library/nunnery. There’s something about the way he constructs story that really gets me going, activates those gray cells in the weirdest ways. But beyond that, the reading job Ethan Hawke did ( Read more... )

Had a great time at Crypticon Seattle this past Saturday, despite only being able to go for a short time (sorry if I missed anyone). To explain, we have a yearly garage sale, that’s become a big family thing and I accepted the invitation at Crypticon prior to our city declaring a date for the citywide deal, that combined with Father’s Day swept the ( Read more... )

Haven’t done this for awhile so here’s some videos to accompany your dwindling Friday work drudge!

I’m loving White Lies. Thoughts?

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And for all your running with wolves needs…

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And who could live without the new Interpol?

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Or The Smiths?

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That’s enough. Lord knows there’re more. God help me.

What are y’all listening to?

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It’s been a while since I’ve pimped out a book anywhere other than Twitter/Facebook. What can I say? Busy trying to salvage a career here. I really don’t want to sling fries with the pimple set. Ever. So I come out of my manuscript cloud (picture letters and crumpled paper flying around the room like a monkey flings its own crap), to talk about a ( Read more... )