So after something like 7 or 8 years on LJ (between this blog and my old wordsmith1 account), I'm ready to leave this place behind. Even posting as infrequently as I do, I'm getting pummeled by spambots - most of which are Russian. It's starting to look a bit like Red Dawn up in here.

I'll continue to blog when the mood strikes me over at Blogger ( ( Read more... )

Josh Reynolds, Tommy Hancock, David Boop, and I joined hosts Ric Croxton and Art Sippo on the Book Cave podcast to talk about the latest volume of HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD. We were wrestling with some pretty serious technical difficulties, but we managed to get nearly an hour of weird west talk in before Skype went quietly into that dark night.

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I mentioned in the last post that I'd scored a free Kindle, and now that I've had the holiday weekend to play with it, here are some initial thoughts ( Read more... )

I've neglected the hell out of this place for the last year, so apologies for all the dust around here. I've got a daughter now. And I was editing a book and working full-time and sometimes going to school and, and, and ( Read more... )

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I am now taking pitches for stories to be published in How the West Was Weird, Vol. 2 in 2011.

What am I looking for?

I’m looking for stories that qualify as “weird westerns” - basically a western mixed with some other genre. This usually means a western with a horror or ( Read more... )

So here we are at the end of the week-long HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD blog tour, and it's up to me to find a way to wrap it up. I could talk a little about the process of recruiting, editing, proofreading, etc. that went into the book's creation... but I got bored just typing the first part of this sentence, so I can't imagine that you'd want to read ( Read more... )

Josh Reynolds classes up the HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD blog tour by examining the possibilities and trappings of this mash-up of a genre. And he even throws in a creepy bit of weird western flash fiction that didn't make it into the book.


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The HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD blog tour chugs along, as author Joel Jenkins talks a little about the real-life gunfighter and set piece that served as inspirations for his story, "Wyrm Over Diablo".


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