Sorry, you don't get off the hook so easily, written 4 days ago, Paul Fahri is right in so many details as he recounts how he deck is stacked against America's newspapers, yet so wrong in concluding that journalism doesn't share the blame. Journalism should share the blame, and journalists are not p...

First Sneak Shot of Kindle 2, written 3 days ago, BoyGeniusReport is showing a sneak pic of the new Kindle 2… Pointless for Amazon to continue to deny this… but I'm still not excited…

Comment Competition, written 23 minutes ago, I've been thinking for a while of running a competition on this blog, and a recent offer from UPrinting has given me the chance to do just that. So I now present (drumroll, please): the Get Paid To Write Online comment competition. The rules are simple. 1...

Guest Blog: Why ebooks?, written 1 week ago, I recently started thinking about having a guest blogger or two stop by, but I wanted to do something a little different–I just hadn't figured out what. Around that same time a reader friend I met through MySpace emailed me talking about ebooks and how ...

PSTD and Eating Disorders…, written 4 days ago, Emetophobia Warning   One of the things I haven't discussed in any detail on this Blog, despite saying I would, is my love/hate relationship with food.  As a male suffering from an eating disorder, I can attest to the added shame surrounding someth...

Suck My Cynical Blood, Vampire Scum, written 6 days ago, Honestly, there are times when I see people reading a book from that fucking Twilight series and I feel like asking them what the fuck is wrong with them and what the fuck is wrong with literature. Granted, though, I know that all of this supe...

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see buff run, written 1 day ago, Three weeks ago I decided to train for a triathlon (the normal-folk kind…ironmans are for crazy people) even though running and I are mortal enemies and I have exercise induced asthma. But a friend of mine did one on a whim last year (Okay, maybe not so much a whim...

Protected: A wandering path, written 4 days ago, There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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The Continuing Tale of the Outdated Photo, written 1 day ago, TRUE STORY: Back in 1997 I wrote a book about Internet safety, and included a chapter about online dating. (No, I'm not writing another such book right now.) I had been to sites like this one in 1995, looking for a date, and in 1997 I not...

Get your buzz on, written 2 days ago, Last week, fellow mystery scribe Laura Benedict ran my October article on her blog. She's running a contest so drop by and comment to be eligible to win.Saturday evening, I attended a mead tasting and garden art party hosted by my friends Jennifer Mosquera and h...

2008: The Year of the Indigo, written 1 day ago, While three times may seem insignificant to certain people who can claim six times, three times seeing the Indigo Girls in one year feels awesome to me. What further heightens the awesome factor is that I was at the first stop on this tour (Richmondâ€...

Alone in the dark, written 3 days ago, Last night, as I tucked the birthday boy into bed, he stopped mid-sentence to ask me if I had locked all the doors and closed all the windows. "I heard a sound," he said. "When?" "Just now, when we were talking." The house was dead...

Something to make you smile, written 9 hours ago, Something to make you laugh...

Viva España, written 19 hours ago, Am off to Barcelona tomorrow so back next week.Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Still Wishing I had Telekinesis, written 15 hours ago,

Manage your mind, manage your writing, written 11 hours ago, Are you in control of your mind? If you can't manage your mind, you can't manage your writing.Mind management is especially essential for writers in the current economic climate. Others' fear and doom-laden pronouncements can trigger an av...

Memories of Malaya - 11. What the Dickens-lah!, written 8 hours ago, My father continues his Memories of Malaya series, with more recollections of the joys of reading during his childhood. He writes: When we grew a little older my Mother would borrow books from the Kuala Lumpur Public Library which ...

Poem: Diary of a Survivor of Obsession, written 9 hours ago, Some years ago I had a very young girlfriend who eventually left to explore the world. Although I did not try to stop her, the rejection was extraordinarily painful, beyond anything I had expected. A year after this, I met a girl for whom ...