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Written in bacon
I’ve been on a book review binge these past several days. I was getting behind so I decided to put everything else aside and clean the stack off the floor next to my desk that’s been nagging at me....
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The two are very close, but they never actually touch
I wrote my Storytellers Unplugged essay this morning. It’s called “Writing In My Head,” and was inspired by a blog I read in the NY Times. It will appear on Friday morning. I’m on the verge of starting...
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Better living through chemistry
My August contribution to Storytellers Unplugged is called Writing in My Head, and it’s now live. I’ve been suffering with lower back pain for a couple of years. I say “pain,” because that’s the...
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Fear the Reaper
The website for Nancy Kilpatrick’s Danse Macabre anthology is now online. I received my contributor copy last week, and the book will launch at World Fantasy in Toronto. My contribution is “Therapy,”...
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In the Crowd
My essay Faces in the Crowd is now up at FEARNet. It tracks the evolution of King’s new short story collaboration with Stewart O’Nan, “A Face in the Crowd,” essentially from the moment King got the...
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The heat is on
I was on light writing duty this weekend. I finished the first draft of my next column for Cemetery Dance, but that’s about it. I’m still thinking deeply about the next short story I want to write, but...
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Golf in the Gulf
We don’t have a beach house, but we have the next best thing: a rental house on the beach that we’ve been going to for the past several years. It feels a little like a time-share, but we don’t have any...
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56 and counting
I finished Phantom by Jo Nesbø on Sunday. (How exactly do you pronounce “ø”?”) A complex, gritty, dark, violent Norwegian crime novel. From there I moved on to The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage...
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Down the rabbit hole
I sort of relaxed and got caught up on things over the long weekend. Does signing ~1000 signature sheets count as relaxing? I did them while watching recorded TV shows, so it wasn’t too taxing. They’re...
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Narrative lapses and shortcuts
We’ll see how long this lasts. I finally received a car magnet supporting my candidates of choice. As some of you may know, this is the first time I’ve been able to vote in a presidential election....
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