I look at my best musical output with something like wonder. It's not simply the passage of time that makes it so alien to me. Sure, some...

October 14. The thing that used to hang me up was all the books I’ll never read before I die, whether for the first time or not. Lately...

August 1. I do actually try not to judge a book by its cover. I understand the potential pitfall there. But a title? Totally fair game....

May 2. I have very little interest in the creative ideas  of other people. I guess that’s what puts me on the artistic, rather than the...

Croatian publisher Amaranthine Books has been on my radar ever since they launched with an appealing edition of The Strange Case of Dr....

April 10. There’s something particularly true about a profile. In the mirror, we see mostly lies. In conversation, we too often hide...

Well, I didn’t get anything posted since last month’s journal entries, but that’s okay. If I don’t do much more than these monthly...

To my surprise and delight, I've been enjoying the new iPhone Journal app. They make it easy to ignore their annoying idea prompts, so...

Opening paragraphs are not created equal, and I have a lot of favorites. Robert McCammon's The Providence Rider, George Eliot's Adam...

So Robert McCammon doesn’t write horror anymore, eh? Perhaps a reading of his latest Matthew Corbett novel, The King of Shadows, will...

For the most part, I’m going to kick my cinephile self to the curb for this list. You’ll just have to trust that I’ve forgotten more...

It was the publication of Centipede Press's new book of Allen Koszowski's artwork that got me thinking about doing another installment of...

Only the briefest of posts today, to let you know that my latest strategy article for Casual Game insider is availble now. Check out...

My two favorite guitarists of all time are both gone now. Eddie Van Halen, of course, wiped out the hard-rock world when he passed away...

Since my recent post about the unconscionable rewriting of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels, the ball of ignorance has continued to gather...

It's been a while since I've offered up a free story. This one is from my most recent horror collection, Fool's Fire. "An Occurrence at...

Sometimes it occurs to me that a certain book could be put to great use in the classroom if I were a high school teacher. Clive Barker’s...

Maybe you’ve read about it by now. Puffin, publisher of Roald Dahl’s children’s books, has taken to rewriting some of Dahl’s prose for...

I like a good problem. I wouldn’t have characterized myself in this way for much of my life, but I see now that it was always true. Do I...

I suppose now that I'm essentially off social media, with the occasional exception of TikTok, I should at least keep faithful readers of...