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It turns out that the book I’ve been writing isn’t called MIND PLAGUE after all. In fact, I’ve never written a book that was called what I thought it was called.
PLAGUE YEAR, as you know, began as THE INVISIBLE SEA. It briefly became THE ARCHOS PLAGUE and then DEATHLINE before my editor and the marketing [...]

Nearly done with a final polish of MIND PLAGUE, I decided to change a spearcarrier’s name from Ted to Jake because I also had a Tony and a Trish and that’s too many T names. Normally I’d just do this manually throughout the ms., because I’m a caveman and I hate MS Word, which [...]

Apparently the first guy is just a lip-synching Milli Vanilli with a huge following on YouTube, so his cover version has become the more popular one. My understanding is that he used the song with permission, and, admittedly, he does a fun job with his face-making and Ryan Seacrest good looks.
The original [...]

We should hang out.

This week I went into a cutting edge super cool music/movie shop where they buy, sell, and trade everything digital and analog, even LPs. You know what an LP is, right? I brought in some old kids’ movies we’ve outgrown with the intent of walking out with DVDs of DUMBO and Volume III [...]

Could I possibly *be* any more 21st Century?
Here is a YouTube video of the first introduction I did this summer for Starship Sofa for “The Frozen Sky,” talking about the story’s origin, its characters, and so forth. Let me know what you think!

The mind-crogglingly awesome crew over at Starship Sofa has just released another story of mine as a free podcast. The smooth-voiced Amy H. Sturgis, who was in perfect pitch last summer for “The Frozen Sky,” returns as the narrator of “Long Eyes.” For me, listening to it is an odd experience. [...]