Here's the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Award. I should point a couple of members are on the ballot. NOVEL *From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury (Morrow)...
Hi all! In case anyone's interested, I've got a fun little short-short live at ShadowKeep. It's available on its own page online or in the complete pdf issue. ...
The newspaper wants me to resume my column. I haven't written one in at least two years. I'm tempted, as it always kept me in a writing frame of mind. But it...
Do it. You know you want to. You know you like it. You know you like making fun of that goofy character who has a column at your paper. Did he die? Oh,...
... just ... Del: A kol is the best toy a boy ever had, at least in the world of journalism. I still miss the semi-instant gratification of delighting, ...
Del: Geez, columns! I'm a bureau chief for my paper and used to have to write one weekly for the Sunday paper. It was easy then and I placed second in a...
... in ... delighting, ... Del . . . Sorry I didn't answer before this -- have been fighting a cold/flu/whatever and was only able to crawl to my computer this...
Ahhh ... developments. The newspaper may withdraw its request that I resume my column. I attached so many conditions to writing the column, I think the editor...
Del, Like I keep saying, you need to do novels, make enough money to quit your day job, and then tell the local editors to get a life. Not just in fun, Richard...
cabana (kuh-BAHN-uh) noun 1. A shelter on a beach or swimming pool. 2. A cabin or cottage. [From Spanish cabana, from Late Latin capanna (hut).] Would it...
Hi Richard, If the course you're taking helps you become more productive as a writer then use whatever it teaches you to produce that extra material. I read...
... publisher ... You know, it occurs to me that the only people who get huge advances (okay large not huge) are non-fiction writers. Usually only when they...
Wellllll ... it seems I won't be writing a column after all. They've decided to split the vacant day with two other people who wanted to write columns....
... They've ... Good, now you have no excuses left for not finishing that novel. And what's up with working weekends at that paper. They pay for 40 they get...
Free Issue of Planet Pulp Magazine Available Welcome to Planet Pulp! Each month, you'll get the world of genre fiction (mystery, horror, fantasy, thrillers,...
New Hollywood Standards? Found the following on CNET, here's a quick summary of the article: "Seven major U.S. film studios said Tuesday that they have joined...
Thanks to our own Garrett Peck I'll have a story in the upcoming "Tooth and Claw" antho. My story is called "My Duty as a Man" and uses the creatures in my...
mesa (MAY-suh) noun A flat-top land formation with steep sides. A mesa is an area bigger than a butte but smaller than a plateau. [From Spanish mesa (table),...
Hi Del Thanks for the help. You're the only person to reply with advice. I will go through it again and do some weeding. By the way: Who's Han Gurber of Die...
Get ready, it's coming! Think fast! Killer asteroid coming in 2880 Guy Gugliotta - Washington Post Friday, April 5, 2002 The bad news is, there's an asteroid...
Richard, I didn't realize you live in NZ! Anyway, in the Bruce Willis movie "Die Hard," which came out a few years ago, there's a terrorist named Hans Gruber....
Apparently Penguin/Putnam has changed the title of Earl's novel from "Flu Season," a tight, efficient and highly evocative name for a book, to "Final...
