Whenever I pull out my Kindle Fire in public (“Excuse me while I whip this out”), the question I always get asked immediately after the question, “Is that a Kindle?” is “Do you enjoy reading on that thing?” Like nearly everything else in these not-so-United States these days, the battle lines have been drawn between …
I’m very happy to announce today that, at long last, I have a release date for my third novel, Deep Blood: July 26. If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that the novel will be published in print and e-book format by Roundfire Books. If you haven’t been following along, check out the “My …
There are some things that I unabashedly geek out over, and football uniforms is one of those things. And baseball logos, but we’ve already covered that ground. Football uniforms are, and have always been, a subject of some fascination with me. I don’t know where it started. Doodling football helmets as a kid, maybe. Or …
We’re still banning books? I ran across this from the American Library Association (www.ala.org) the other day, a list of banned books. I don’t know who compiled it or the critieria for a book being “banned” or “challenged,” but it does make for interesting conversation among book nerds like me. Yep, there’s 100 titles on …
Occasionally, I run across something that makes me sit up, nod at my computer screen and say, “Yep. That’s it.” This post by Stephen Jay Schwartz over at Murderati was one of those things. It’s titled, “Why I Like Writers.” I know, I know, it’s obvious why one should like writers, but he has an interesting — …
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