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Basilisk “He strangled them.” “All of them?” “All of them. Thirteen people strangled to death, and not one of them fought back.” I fixed O’Malley with a hard eye. He didn’t back down. “Bullshit.” “I’m telling you, I saw the tape.” “And I’m telling you bullshit. Ain’t no way a guy gets on a bus,…
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This was spawned by a well-phrased and timed IM comment by a loved one. We’ve often commented on Hipsterism. She finds it funny. I recognize that it’s frequently funny, but do so while freely admitting that yes, I myself am a hipster. She asked me, “How does it feel to identify strongly with a subculture…
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It’s taken me a few days to really put this into words. It might be too soon even now. A very close friend of mine died on June 11th, while he was in Texas to receive medical treatment. I found out about it Thursday morning, minutes before leaving for work. While he had changed his…
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I like to think of myself as a relatively well-rounded writer. For my day job, I write product copy for a charity-based e-com site — scarves, jewelry, picture frames, you name it. I’ve been doing it for close to five years now and it’s just a thing I do. For my personal writing, I’ve done…
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Ah, I can’t believe I didn’t post about this earlier this week. It goes to show how insane the past five days have been, I guess. My short story “Ink Calls to Ink” which originally appeared on WilyWriters.com in February of last year has just been selected for a Best of anthology. Entitled Night-Mantled: The…
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When I first started self-publishing my novels with Cobalt City Blues and Greetings from Buena Rosa, it was a little home enterprise. It was a way to make my novels available to friends and family in an easy-to-read format. If other people wanted to read them, that was fine by me. For those purposes, Lulu.com…
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I don’t want to harp on this point, because I think it’s been done many times by people with far greater reach than I have. But having recently experienced some benefits from this myself, I had to comment on it. Next summer, I will have been involved in Role Playing Games (RPG’s to the initiated)…
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It’s been a chaotic month. In the past four weeks (in addition to my regular 9-5 job), I did one reading for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE URBAN KIND at the University Bookstore, celebrated one wonderful relationship milestone, celebrated my birthday, and finished the first draft on three original short stories — two of them started…
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The first Gato Loco novel, Greetings from Buena Rosa (which you can download for free here) grew out of a news report about the murders in Jarez and Chihuahua. Old news now, perhaps, but at the time, it was shocking that hundreds of people were being killed and that in lieu of actual investigation, some…
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With the release of the Close Encounters of the Urban Kind anthology earlier this month, what better time to get to know one of its several authors? The always entertaining Rosemary Jones recently agreed to a brief interview about her work, her process, and the anthology. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado…Rosemary Jones! 1) Your…
Tales from the Ragged Edge 