8/1 - the afternoon refreshment for my 1[SUP]st[/SUP] day on Nantucket: 3 parts beer, 1 part Clamato https://pic.twitter.com/DuHF4CINFP

8/6 - If I had to summarize, in a phrase, everything that has gone wrong, that phrase would be "celebrity DJ." (Dave Barry tweet)

8/7 - dare to be stupider: http://tinyurl.com/k6dxbou

8/8 - PW likes DARK CITY: "...begins with an adrenaline-pumped chase across the top of a moving subway train, and the thrills don't stop until the final page." http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-3015-4

8/9 - the latest addition to my fake vomit collection. A beaut, huh? https://pic.twitter.com/VUZZxAeJhR

8/10 - I love stories like this... http://tinyurl.com/mk47keh

8/11 - finished a draft of a novelette for Mysterious Press's Bibliomysteries series. I promised it to Otto Penzler years ago and only now got around to it (after shamings every time I see him). Will let it sit awhile then go back and tweak it.

8/15 - Damn insomnia! Thought I'd finished the Bibliomystery for Mysterious Press, then came up with a new character twist and ending at 5am. Must. Rewrite.

8/17 - There's transgressive fiction. Can there be transgressive wine? http://tinyurl.com/lrs68we

8/18 - you won't see my name here http://tinyurl.com/lw33nmw

8/18 - "Raven" -- a straight-to-video 1996 Burt Reynolds masterpiece was the centerpiece for Bad Movie night at Doug Winter's. Hong Kong dub-level dialog. Sweeeeet.

8/19 - MEN: For the love of God, do NOT click on this link http://tinyurl.com/ldrov4g

8/19 - Nice review of COLD CITY on the Curled Up site (psst: it's not fantasy or sf): http://www.curledup.com/cold_city.htm

8/20 - RiP Elmore Leonard - but his work and his superb Rules of Writing will live on.

8/21 - face-swapping dolls - CREEPY! http://tinyurl.com/lxn36jw

8/21 - NY Comic Con - just learned I'll be modding an urban fantasy panel on Fri Oct. 11: http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/

8/25 - spent a long weekend in the Hamptons (well. Amagansett, to be precise). Sheesh, is it crowded out there.

8/28 - The Huff Post seems to have become the Miley Cyrus newsletter... and what's "twerking" anyway?


8/29 - Learned that DARK CITY is a "Top Pick" in the latest RT Book Reviews.

8/29 - No matter what, I will never, EVER believe in astrology. (I'm a Taurus and we're very skeptical.)

8/29 - finished a page-proof check of "Renascence" (with Rhodi Hawk) in DARK DUETS. Love the story but SICK OF IT!!!

8/30 - mind-blowing! "A short guide to the Middle East." https://pic.twitter.com/v07aJKsAFm

8/31 - heard from my freshman-year roommate at Georgetown who just published his first novel. Congrats to Raoul Wientzen. It sounds cool, so give it a buy. (I’ve pre-ordered the ebook) http://tinyurl.com/mkmjw2j

Hi all,
I've just finished re-reading Reprisal, and started The Dark at the End, heading towards Nightworld. I'm both excited, and dreading the end of the story. It's all been such a great ride! ;-)

But one recent thing puzzles me: at the end of Reprisal, when Bill is heading south to save Lisl from Rafe, why does Mr Veilleur choose to go with him? At Lisl's, he gets out of the car and enters the house where the confrontation is taking place, even though he knows that Rafe is Rasalom (yes, he doesn't know for sure that Rafe is in there, but it's a fair bet), and he simply walks into the room and allows Rasalom to see him ... and then curses himself for a fool that he's allowed Rasalom to know he no longer has an Ally-aligned adversary to confront him.

I gather it's necessary for the story, but within the story's own logic it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense for him to do that, since he's voiced so many times how disastrous it would be for Rasalom to know Glaeken has grown old. So ... why does he do it? I can only see a plot-based reason, that doesn't seem to make sense on a character level. Have I missed something?

We recently aquired Showtime.....and found Homeland. The 3'rd season starts September 23'rd I believe. Anyone else watching this?
We're both hooked on it. lol

Happy birthday, Dave. Best wishes for a great day! :party:

7/1 - Don't you hate it when authors say they're working on something they've promised not to talk about? Me too. Why bother mentioning it at all?

7/1 - BTW, I'm working on something I've promised not to talk about.

7/2 - I've no problemo with our gov't spying on other gov'ts. Big problem with wholesale spying on its own citizens.

7/3 - Funny! How to Jam a Glock http://www.guns.com/2013/07/02/how-to-ja...ock-video/

7/4 - This video made me laugh. Be patient with the puppy. Wait for the cats....you've probably seen this but I hadn't. I thought that damn puppy would never get down the steps. youtu.be/Oq8nYgnE93Y

7/4 - repairmanjack.com ATTACKED! The site was down from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. (EST) today. The host shut it down as a security measure due to an attack from an IP address in Qatar (it was blasting the search.php file). Thanks to Marc Buhmann for blocking it. Normal service has resumed. Sorry for the downtime. I introduced an unsavory Qatari character in The Early Years Trilogy. Coincidence?

7/6 - Why am I getting spam from JDate -- a Jewish singles site? How'd I manage to get on that list?

7/7 - What? WHAT??? South American Football - Referee beheaded by fans for killing player http://tinyurl.com/lqnn9rf

7/8 - "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

7/10 - new computer! Custom built with solid-state HD - so fast.

7/11 - Bad pickup line (overheard): I'm at the hotel bar next to this young woman with multiple unfortunate tattoos. Guy comes up, points to her deltoid and says: "Love that tattoo. Is it yours?" (spoken without a hint of irony.)

7/12 - at Thrillerfest - having a.m. coffee and people watching in the hotel lobby. My fashion sense verges on the autistic, but even I marvel at the apparel ensembles swirling about me. Oh? Your pet chimp packed for you? Well, that explains it then.

7/13 - SHARKNADO - hilarious interview with the writer. Y'gotta love this guy... http://fb.me/2zLMwqZ49

7/14 - check out my video interview with Wickergirl at WHC http://bit.ly/16ncUKh

7/16 - Saw "Shaknado" on DVR last night (I was at T-fest when it premiered). If you hit your brain's =Standby= switch, it's a lot of fun. (Am I the only one who was reminded of Oiv from GATEWAYS during the final chainsaw scene?)

7/17 - YAY! Someone has fixed Alanis Morrisette's nescient lyrics, morphing them to "It's Finally Ironic." Very funny... http://fb.me/2kNnk4aUi

7/17 - If you look up "awesome" in the dictionary, this photo should be there. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130717.html

7/18 - "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Longfellow

7/22 - Back from NECon. Stayed up too late too often but that's part of the NECon experience. A full night's rest at home and all's well.

7/23 - nice review of DRACULAS http://tinyurl.com/kmn5q8x

7/25 - saw PACIFIC RIM in Imax 3D - wow. Just wow. I could sit here and pick it apart (the physics, internal inconsistencies, etc.) but I'm too blown away by the sheer audacity of the production. Imax 3D allows you to appreciate the enormous scale of just about everything in the film. Part of the fun is the film's references: from Godzilla to Transformers to Bladerunner, even Star Trek's red shirts, while still maintaining its own gestalt. I liked it a lot but I didn't love it (which would mean I'd go see it again).

7/26 - Never been to NECon? Tracie Orsie, Bootcamp survivor and owner of my favorite restaurant (Ragin' Cajun) went to her first last weekend. She perfectly captures the spirit of the gathering. Yes, we do love each other. Yes, we do support each other. Schadenfreude is unknown.
http://tracieorsi.wordpress.com/2013/07/...ture-book/

7/27 - Meghan Arcuri-Moran, another and already a veteran of 2 NECons, has a cooler perspective. http://meghanarcuri.wordpress.com/2013/0...questions/

7/28 - 47 RONIN - when I visited Chris Morgan on the Universal lot last year, he told me he was adapting one of my favorite Japanese legends, the 47 Ronin, to the screen. Here's the first trailer. (Keanu Reeves haters take a deep breath and go with it.) It looks awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8cKdDkkIYY

7/28 - Finished a close read of the 1st draft of FEAR CITY. It's ready for the beta readers. Also, after years of delay, started a long-promised story for Otto Penzler.

7/29 - An intriguing little film (actual running time 4:30) with lots of possibilities. http://posthumanthemovie.com/watch-the-film/

7/30 - "Renascence" (a novella in DARK DUETS with Rhodi Hawk - edited by Christopher Golden - just finished my second run-through of the copy-edited ms. I think we're there. I hope the cover on Amazon is a placeholder. I mean it's uuuuuuugly. http://tinyurl.com/q8ww2co

7/31 - today starts the annual Nantucket trip, where Sarah Pinborough fiction has become a tradition. MAYHEM and POISON are queued in the Kindle, waiting to be read.

3/1 - Gamers/fans of THE KEEP - the Mayfair Games module is reprinted in its entirety here: http://tinyurl.com/cw4j32m

3/3 - Today I face the worst part of writing a novel: the first page.

3/3 (later) - There, that wasn't so bad. 1200 words that don't suck. FEAR CITY is on its way.

3/4 - Finished the FEAR CITY outline last night (yes, after starting chapter one). I haven't outlined much the past few years, but FEAR CITY is such a high-wire act, crisscrossing real and fictional events, that I needed the safety net of a solid timeline. And you know, I do feel safer knowing I can put everyone where they need to be when they need to be there.

3/5 - I'm glad "Ripper Street" and "Copper" run in different seasons, otherwise I'd get them totally mixed up.

3/6 - A thoughtful review of the COLD CITY audiobook by someone who's not a fan (yet).... http://tinyurl.com/bcdppu3

3/8 - here's one of the reasons I admire Penn Jillette. http://tinyurl.com/bsg8pgv

3/11 knife pistols: #2 has to be the stupidest weapon I've ever seen. I want it. http://tinyurl.com/ccf9hoe

3/12 - Claude Rains was supposed to play Dr. Pretorius? I was watching "Bride of Frankenstein" with the commentary running and they said the part was written for him after he and Whale worked together on "The Invisible Man" but he decided against it. Thesiger was wonderful but in an alternate universe I'd love to see what Rains would do with the part.

3/13 - Colbert cracks himself up. Adolescent humor but I really did LOL. http://www.youtube.com/embed/vhnLk3TJWFY?rel=0

3/14 - I need these http://tinyurl.com/bkl25by

3/14 - I already have tinnitus so I do NOT need these... http://tinyurl.com/agsrbbx

3/15 - The last paragraph of @AnnoDracula's look back at "The Blob" (a fave film of my youth) is a bit unsettling http://tinyurl.com/b5wkrvp

3/17 - Years ago I researched memory for a novel (MIRAGE) and became convinced that we don't remember =anything= accurately. Here's reinforcement: http://tinyurl.com/ass66nz (if that interests you, look up Elizabeth Loftus)

3/18 - a Sleepy's ad this a.m. said its stores were "staffed by trained mattress professionals." I was still half asleep and doubt my visualization of the job requirements matched theirs.

3/20 - The morality of Obamacare: the tale of a sandwich: http://tinyurl.com/a7gg9ul

3/21 - "Spartacus" watchers: you've noticed, I assume, that the dialog contains almost no articles? Latin had none. Apparently one of the showrunners knows that.

3/22 - Unlike most "art" I see, these I'd put on my wall. Love to know what one looks like edge-on. http://tinyurl.com/a45q9an

3/22 - Happy 50th birthday to "Please Please Me" - http://tinyurl.com/9wcvw9q

3/25 - after 2 years of Google docs, Skypes, countless emails, and one face-to-face spitballing session, what started as a novella by Sarah Pinborough and me has ended up a short novel. At 53k words it's an awkward length, so we're still figuring out what to do with it as we tweak it.

3/25 - Well, that didn't take long. An hour after posting the above we've made a deal with Brian Keene's Maelstrom Press to publish a limited hardcover edition late summer. Sarah and I keep the paperback and ebook rights.

3/28 - heading for MARcon via Newark Airport where I'll get my complimentary TSA mammogram.

3/28 - This is my 5th time to this Hyatt - 3 MARcons, 1 RT, 1 WFC. I see they've remodeled the bar a little (just passing through - no, really)

3/29 - My fave sign from the MARcon art show http://twitpic.com/cfdvxa (although someone suggested replacing the puppy with a drum)

3/30 - just had a look at the April 7 NYT Combined Print & E-Book Fiction bestsellers list: #2, #8, and #13 on the April 7 are self published. Astonishing

3/31 - on the flight back to Newark I sat across the aisle from a guy reading STOREYS GUIDE TO RAISING SHEEP (?????)

4/2 - on the to-do list: signature sheets for Dark City http://twitpic.com/cinqwz

4/4 - Cool! Someone on Amazon put all the Secret History ebooks in one spot. http://tinyurl.com/c3eh5nd

4/6 - I hate it when I come up with a single line that cancels the need for two scenes (short, but still scenes) that I've already written.

4/10 - Well, this is pretty cool. http://tinyurl.com/cr8q2rh

4/11 - "Darkened Cities" - very eerie and beautiful - http://tinyurl.com/cggso8r

4/12 - Murder plotted at my fave North Jersey diner: http://tinyurl.com/co4v7q7 (now, if I told you that after the uncle was killed they'd be serving lamb Amirstan, would you know whereof I speak?)

4/11 - Hey, very cool that Dana Fedsti lists Jack: http://tinyurl.com/bmapopq

4/13 - 49-second video review of MIDNIGHT MASS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-RL6LWMOpA

4/14 - Woody's in Sea Bright, NJ - the owner was one of the local heroes after Sandy, feeding the volunteers in a makeshift kitchen after his restaurant was wrecked. But now Woody's is back and served me the most amazing PEI mussels in curry sauce last night. Support the Shore - come on down and feast.

4/16 - "Hannibal" - I've enjoyed the first 2 episodes so far. True irony-fests. The second was deliciously grisly and reminded me of the old Japanese film "Metango."

4/18 - the CNN debacle: A hilarious montage of screenshots interspersed with editorializing jpgs and gifs. (When you're in last place, you REALLY want to be first with the story. As for the facts...) http://tinyurl.com/cxpwy63

4/19 - Interesting quiz: says I have a Philly accent (well, I grew up in Jersey) Where's your accent? http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/american...-quiz.html

4/20 - The screenwriting riches flow forever. Just received a WGAe residual check for "Glim-Glim," a 1989 episode of =Monsters=: $3.67.

4/19 - hunting down the Boston bomber in Watertown tonight was like a Dick Tracy strip come to life: the botched escape, the wounded criminal, the trail of blood, the bizarre hiding place, the observant civilian spotting something suspicious, the cops swooping in to make the pinch. Riveting.

4/21 - "Game of Thrones": How do I love thee, Daenerys Targaryen - Let me count the ways.

4/22 - Peter Reilly is talking about Repairman Jack over at Forbes again. He seems to have a real handle on the character http://tinyurl.com/cfubbxw

4/24 - "The Haunted Air" is now out in audiobook. Hear a sample: http://bit.ly/ZHb3OX

4/25 - DARK CITY page proofs: rereading the dialogue in Jack and Doc Hargus's 1st meeting. Gotta say, When I'm on, I'm on.

4/26 - I saw Janis Ian tonight at McLoone's supper club in Asbury Park. It's amazing how well her voice has held up. Her tone is as pure as I remember it (which may not be all that accurate). To these old tinnitus-ravaged ears she sounds just like the link here to the recorded version. "At Seventeen" is teenage angst viewed from afar, but even guys can relate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k39P2MK6WPo

4/27 - Carl Hiassen could get away with it, but if I put this in a novel I'd be laughed out of town:
"Federal agents in Mississippi arrested a martial arts instructor early Saturday morning as part of an investigation into the mailing of ricin-laced letters to President Obama and two other officials. The man, J. Everett Dutschke, was taken into custody without incident at his home in Tupelo, Miss...
"Mr. Dutschke’s arrest came after criminal charges were dropped on Tuesday against another Mississippi man, Paul Kevin Curtis, a celebrity impersonator who said he had been framed by Mr. Dutschke, a longtime personal rival."

4/27 - this might be what the First Age looked like (check out the window)
http://tinyurl.com/d5v5tgc

4/28 - a writer's Sunday: a couple thou words on FEAR CITY, finished proofing DARK CITY, finished (I think) a conversation with Neil Gaiman for the Tor newsletter. To come: a little exercise, a little gin, a call to Tom Monteleone about a project or two, and then "Game of Thrones"

5/1 - "The Haunted Air" is now out in audiobook. Hear a sample: http://bit.ly/ZHb3OX

5/2 - last I looked I was #12 http://fb.me/R6EUd5Cm

5/3 - I could be the vigilante copy editor. I could. Really. http://tinyurl.com/cuuzvy5


5/4 - the John Carpenter of chemical reactions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ritaljhhk7s

5/5 - stuck inside of KC with the St. Joe blues again. Faulty toilet on our EMB-145 holding us here.

5/6 - Y'gotta love Passive Guy http://tinyurl.com/cvev5ld


5/7 - for anyone whose book I've promised to read, this is why I haven't got to it yet. (Not the wine -- that's just there for perspective). Yes, I can get a bit obsessive about the Byrds. http://twitpic.com/cq5ykk

5/7 - RIP Ray Harryhausen - "There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in 'King Kong,' that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane." (Ray Harryhausen in 2006)


"A genius who moved his audience a tiny bit at a time." (Stephen Fry)

Astounding Harryhausen GIF: http://tinyurl.com/ceypqvz

5/8 - Explaining Complicated Philosophies With Gorgeously Simple Postcards http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/phil...ewall=true
(not sure I buy into all, but...)

5/8 - Q: What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers have in common?
A: All were invented by women.

5/9 - via Neil Tyson: "Only in America can a Beer Commercial be more scientifically literate than a State School Board": http://bit.ly/171lLr

5/10 - Here's my story "Lididleggin'" on film if you've got 11 minutes to spare: http://fb.me/MuzYftSo

5/11 - opened up the DARK CITY file and realized I have to kill a favorite character this morning. Bummer.

5/12 - Weekend report:
Saturday: finished a short-story collab with Heather Graham Pozzessere for a secret ITW anthology.
Sunday: crossed the 60k-word mark on FEAR CITY and still going
(Remember when Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) said, "What is a weekend?" Working writers say the same thing, but from the opposite direction.)

5/13 - I love this "Ah the stubbornness of men..." pic.twitter.com/aifqvleqii

5/14 - Poor Dan Brown - doesn't anyone edit him? We all write clinkers. I have readers and an excellent copy editor who catch most of mine. The sad thing is, these are the kind of errors we flag in our bootcamp writers. Chapter 7 has "he heard a strange humming in his ears" - it should be pointed out that the character can also hear with his knees and elbows, so it's necessary to mention "ears." http://tinyurl.com/codv6jm

5/14 - "Hosts" is just out on audio. Listen to a sample here: http://bit.ly/XhIDfU

5/15 - a vegan armory http://tinyurl.com/baubt22

5/15 - ANIME ME! I'm anime'd in "Hellsing" 09 - at 9:45 they describe THE KEEP and seconds later they start doing terrible things to "Paul Wilson." (At least that's what the character's called in the English dub. Don't know about the original Japanese script.) http://www.watchcartoononline.com/hellsi...ish-dubbed

5/16 - Only in the UK: Star Wars fans fight Whovians http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22542222

5/17 - YA readers are the best. Here's a recent email exchange:

I am doing a book report on Jack Secret Vengeance for 7th grade English. I love the books, and my parents like them enough that they named my little brother after Jack. No, seriously. Anyway, I was writing to make sure that Jack really doesn't have a last name n the books. I looked through ALL of them to make sure, but I want to be able to tell my teacher I went to extreme lenghts to find out. If I get an A on this project I am on honor roll. Thanks- (name)
***
Hey, (name) --
You're right. Jack has no last name. Even in the adult books. (When people ask him, "'Jack' what?" he always says, "Just Jack'll do.") I've never given him one so even =I= don't know his last name.
Hope you had as much fun reading them as I did writing them.
FPW
***
Thank you Mr Wilson! I made an A and am on honor roll now. My school's media specialist ordered 2 copies of each of the books because of it, too.

5/17-21 - away to DC and Boston for graduating nephews. Lots of fun except for the "Pomp & Circumstance" earworm.

5/21 - Why is this clown on US TV? http://tinyurl.com/255b6

5/23 - Quote of the Day in email from Chis Morgan, scripter of =Fast & Furious 6=: "If you're not a stickler for physics, it's actually a lot of fun."

5/24 - Head 'em up, move 'em out! Just passed the 75k-word mark on FEAR CITY. Keep those doggies rollin'

5/26 - this is for real: take 5 minutes to see this video on a new, more effective mode of CPR anyone can do - http://ahsc.arizona.edu/node/730

5/28 - a great audio adaptation of my story "Slasher" - listen free. Scroll down to the "Grist Mill" tab and click. http://official.fm/fringeradio2013

5/29 - it felt strange proofing the pages for "The Dead World," my Pellucidar story in the upcoming WORLDS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS anthology. I altered my vocabulary and lengthened my sentence structure (and added a ton of exclamation points!!!) to create an ERB feel. I guess I succeeded because I felt like I was reading someone else's work. http://tinyurl.com/omon5bj

5/30 - lunch with my agent, then the afternoon at BEA, then a celebratory drink (because the Hogbens Kickstarter was a success) with Pierce Watters at the Algonquin.

5/31 - off to Georgetown for my **mumbleth** class reunion. My classmate Bill Clinton has tweeted that he'll be there. He hasn't been to one in a while.

6/1 - In Georgetown for my reunion. A great time seeing old friends. Photobombed Bill Clinton at least half a dozen times at the Friday night BBQ. While there, a demonic little girl puked green in my face, knocking me out a window. http://tinyurl.com/pne6edy No worry. I bounced back

6/3 - spam subject line of the day: "POWER YOUR CARNAL WANTS"

6/4 - Part of today will be devoted to proofing pages for the COLD CITY mmpb. This tends to be disorienting because I'm presently writing about the same characters 2 years later in FEAR CITY.

6/5 - Best pulp cover ever? http://tinyurl.com/nwq82do

6/5 - On a panel tonight at the Salmagundi Club in Greenwich Village, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America. Topic: genre hopping in fiction. Jason Pinter moderated Josh Getzler, Katia Lief, and moi.

6/6 - I realize I have never spelled "sacrilegious" correctly the first time. Never.

6/11 - Useful Phrases for the Surveillance State: The Borowitz Report http://tinyurl.com/kr3xafl

6/13 - flight to NOLA for the World Horror Convention delayed by weather. I'm eating the United Club out of pepper jack cheese.

6/13 - the biz goes on: while stranded here at EWR I just agreed to MacMillan's terms for a tpb edition of SIBS.

6/13 - A good start to WHC weekend - great dinner at Kingfish with Ellen Datlow et al. Then the invasion and takeover of the back room of the Erin Rose

6/15 - Slushpile played a 2-hr set at WHC. Our new bassplayer, writer John Palisano, fit in like he'd been playing with us all along.

6/17 - Debbie Downer - the best thing about live TV is when the performers lose it: http://vimeo.com/27566023. And let's not forget "The Siamese Elephants" from Carol Burnett. Make sure you wait for Vickie Lawrence's quip at the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp-

6/18 - I'm...s-s-s-speechless. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/chin

6/19 "The Killing" - season 3 is way dark, wading through human cesspools. Just saw episode 3 and felt the need for a shower. But I'm hooked.

6/19 - RIP Vince Flynn. So sorry to hear this. Met him a couple of times at Thrillerfest. What a nice guy. Bummer. http://tinyurl.com/ldyu2gt

6/19 - I may be late to the party, but these are astonishing. http://twistedsifter.com/2013/01/rock-ba...hael-grab/

6/21 - My interview with Wicker Girl at WHC. It's day 3 in NOLA and I'm sleep deprived, but still coherent, I hope: http://wickergirl.com/2013/06/20/exclusi...ul-wilson/

6/22 - nice review of the Gauntlet limited edition of DARK CITY (trade edition coming in October) http://horrorworld.org/hw/?p=5041

6/24 - RIP Richard Matheson. I knew it was coming, but it's still jarring. If you're of my generation and you write imaginative fiction, you stand on Matheson's shoulders. If you are a writer of the next generation, you were probably influenced by King, who cites Matheson as a major influence, so therefore you too stand on Matheson's shoulders. That's one hell of a set of shoulders.

6/25 - get over yourself, Jim Carrey. Did you send the check back? Or donate it to the families of the kids who died because their folks believed your ignorant spewings about vaccines? http://tinyurl.com/ny2mlha

6/ 27 - FEAR CITY - adding back scenes to support later scenes. Sort of the point where the house is pretty much finished but needs spackle and molding to give it a smooth appearance (or hide the cracks of you're a half-empty sort).

6/28 - if you've done any self publishing, this might come in handy. http://signup.booktrakr.com/?lrRef=t81xw

6/29 - Okay. Hit the 100k mark on FEAR CITY. Time to put it aside for a bit and work on something else.

6/30 - must share: Chris Thile and Sarah Jarosz at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. I confess the throat got a little tight toward the end when it became a singalong. Sit back and invest 9.5 minutes in real Amurrican music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k44aysIkQY

This is the first time I have ever joined a fans forum , but felt compelled to do so.
I really wanted to send a big thank you to FPW for his excellent Repairman Jack series , which i have just completed today.
I came across the Tomb completely by accident , having Googled " What is the scariest novel ever ? ".
Strangely enough , the Tomb seemed to be mentioned several times.
After purchasing it for my Kindle , and reading it in several hours , I instantly purchased the rest of the series , and boy what a journey it has been.
As of today , I only have Nightworld left , but have decided to leave it till the bitter end after having read the complete Adversary Cycle and the Young Jack series.
Its been a great journey , one I have been entertained , shocked and amused by.

My wife is next to read the series , after having been given a running commentary on each novel.

Thanks again to FPW for these novels and the world he has created , and a big thank you to this forum , which has open up further of FPW novels to me.