I fell in love with Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" before I could fully understand it...
Do you have any plans this Saturday? If not, I'd encourage you to drop by Petaluma's Copperfield's Books, where I will be doing a meet-and-greet in support of my latest anthology, Tales of Jack the Ripper. This is your best chance to get a signed copy of the anthology. Plus, it makes a great gift [...]
I was invited to be a presenter at this year's San Francisco Writers Conference, something which still boggles my mind a little bit (but more on that in a sec). So yesterday afternoon, I drove down to the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, at the top of Knob Hill, signed in, and participated in a standing-room-only [...]
Another week gives way to another weekend. And what a busy week it was. I seem to be coordinating and correcting a ton of projects right now, having just wrapped up Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six, and working concurrently on Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the [...]
Today is Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, which originally commemorated the anniversary of the end of World War I with a minute of silence during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., in his novel Breakfast of Champions, had this to say [...]
David Templeton, who is guest hosting The Drive on radio station KSRO (1350 AM, Santa Rosa) has asked me to come by and chat with him about The Book of Cthulhu this afternoon at 3:35. If you're in the area, please tune in and check it out. My short-short story "Jamie" will be appearing in [...]