You know, giant insects never really scared me. What scares me is lots of little insects. This brings me to this article from a Montgomery paper describing the giant yellowjacket nests sprouting up throughout the South, so big they swallow cars and furniture. ‘The largest nest Ray has inspected this year filled the interior of […]

I’m working on a new novel, Implied Spaces, and have surprised myself with a discovery. Toward the end of the first chapter I noticed that I was writing in the Third Person Objective point of view. Which, for those of you who don’t obsess about these things the way writers do, means that I was […]

Commodorified has written an Authors’ Fight Song, which until this moment I hadn’t realized we badly needed. I am looking forward to many drunken nights spent in bars roaring this aloud.

Trip Diary: April 1, 2006 Over and Under Cappadocia With the Whirling Dervishes When we checked into our hotel, we noticed that our room was on the same floor as the Presidential Suite. Heh, we thought, like some president is going to stay here! Next day there were two well-suited bodyguards sitting in armchairs outside […]