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.

Short film about a robot that's gone mad. Really well done and very creepy.

[video=vimeo;64114843]http://vimeo.com/64114843[/video]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/spenceralthouse/...t-thing-yo

This is hands down one of the BEST Batman fan films I have seen.
[video=youtube;9_ioQP1XU3s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ioQP1XU3s[/video]

I have tagged this as spoilers since I don't want to spoil this for anyone. After completing both the Adversary Cycle and the Repairman Jack series ( following the Secret History of the world order ) yesterday I have just one question.
What happened to the yeniçeri? I would have thought that they would have had an appearance in "The Dark at the End" or "Nightworld". For the life of me I can't recall seeing them after the meeting in Julio's with Jack in "Ground Zero." Did I miss something?

So I finally got around to putting out the 200$ for the last book I needed to complete my repairman jack gauntlet press edition collection with the haunted air. I received it just a few days ago and while it is the first/limited edition, it is not a hardcover. I'm super bummed because its not cheap and I was expecting hc. Has anyone else seen this happen with the gauntlet press editions? Anyone have an extra HC that they will sell at a reasonable price or trade for the soft cover or any of the other stuff I have?

No, I'm not talking politics! I'm talking about the 10% of the population who are dominated by the right hemisphere of their brains (i.e., those who are in their right minds!).

Many famous and infamous people are "southpaws," besides Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stalone), including our current and recent past presidents, Marilyn Monroe, and many more.

Aside from being a minority oppressed by the right-handed majority, lefties have been subjected to discriminatory propaganda throughout history and in several languages. For example, in French, the word for left is synonymous with "clumsy" (i.e., gauche), while the Latin word for right (dexter) is the root for the word "dextrous," which is synonynmous with agile and skilled.

I firmly believe the source of this anti-lefty propaganda stems from the Latin and that results from an ancient battle between Romans and Israelites. The Israelites fielded an army of 400 picked left-handed soldiers who routed and massacred two Roman legions. The Romans (all right-handed), were used to having their shield facing their enemy's sword, but found themselves open to attack when facing a left-hander! Following this battle, the Latin word for left ("sinister") took on added significance!

I applaud my left-handedness and I accept all my fellow lefties as brother and sisters: "We few, we happy few, we band of southpaws!" Any on the RJ board fellow southpaws?

Let righties beware! When you shake hands with a lefty, your strongest hand is down and our sinister left can go whup upside yo' head at any moment!

NYj

Been away for awhile. Since politics are verboten as a subject, not much to say.

However, acquired a new firearm this past weekend; have not even shot it yet. It's built on the AR-15 frame, but fires a .502 Thunder Sabre cartridge. Basically, the .502 is a .50AE with a 7.62x39 head. I've been warned it kicks like a mule, so I need a good recoil pad and a red-dot scope that can absorb some punishment. It has a flat-top (no handle), so it will take any optic sight or even a green daytime laser.

I spoke on the telephone with the designer, who gave me the number of the people he has sold the rights to and who can provide ammunition and accessories.

I'll be back with a report and maybe some pictures after a trip to the range.


In the meantime, best wishes to all,

NYj

My son got me hooked on the RJ series.....*very* cool. I love all the details and subtexts in the series as well as the main plot. It was a little eerie how many common interests I had with a fictional character. We would've gotten along great. Just finished "Bloodline", moving on to the next in the series tonight.

Question;
As not only "reader", but a "collector" as well, most of my series is from Tor/Forge, and have the HCDJ common in the series with Jack pictured in silhouette and a scene from the book below.....does a HCDJ version of "The Tomb" exist with this same look? I've seen the same style cover, but only in SC. I'm new to the forum, and my limited searching hasn't yielded any results in the old messages. I'm just trying to put together a matching set. It's a minor concern, but I was curious.

Thanks, and if you're listening FPW, THANK YOU!!! THESE BOOKS ARE GREAT!!