People are quick to point out that I'm mostly white. I hear a version of the following quite often: "You certainly don't look like a(n) [Indian, Native American, Prairie Nigger]" The people who state the later are a bit insensitive to our politically correct times and usually have a Confederate flag covering more than one of their living room windows. However having 25% Indian in me was a little li...

Man, I am so far behind in posting these things. Anyway, Thuglit's first anthology, Hardcore Hardboiled came out in June and it contain a sweet little story called If There's a Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go by yours truly. It's full of unicorns and puppy dogs and rainbow giggles... errr... not really. Actually it's full of nasty guys and guns and blood - with a hurricane thrown in for good measure...

Hey. hey, everybody! It's been a while. Yes, I've neglected the blog for a bit, but I've been busy with other things - like writing. I know, I'm just as surprised as you are. I have some publishing news to share - which I'll get to later on - and some miscellaneous stuff I plan on posting.I just finished a class on detective fiction. I don't know what my grade is yet, but I'm not too worried that I...

Happy birthday to Jim Gaffigan.Some other people who share a birthday with Jim:Michelle KwanMo CollinsChuck KnoblauchAkiva GoldsmanThe writer of the Hump the Stump seriesJessica HahnMarc Chagall Robert HeinleinWilliam KunstlerDavid McCulloughRingo...

Patti Abbott has asked her fellow bloggers to pick a favorite kids book, and I thought of one that scared the living shit out of me when I was younger: Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. In the book, a mysterious travelling carnival comes to a quiet Midwestern town, piquing the interests of two 13-year-old boys who are on that edge between childhood and adulthood. But they aren't the o...