Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Charles Dickens, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson
Favorite Books
Atlas Shrugged, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, On the Road, The Dark Tower Series, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Haunting of Hill House, The Works of Poe, You Can't Go Home Again, Bleak House
Favorite Authors
Peter Straub, Stephen King, Poppy Z. Brite, Kathe Koja, Caitlin Kiernan, China Mieville, Thomas Ligotti, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker
What I'm Reading
Audio: Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Just a sort of quick, humorous note. I am writing a novel with supernatural creatures in it. It was carefully outlined, and I knew going in pretty much exactly what I was going to write…except…I didn’t know that there was a werewolf in the story. What happened is simple, and worth noting. I set up a situation in the novel where one of the supporting characters needs something from my ...
I don't have a lot of time, but this week's suggsted topic is near and dear to my heart. I have spent long hours of my life in independent bookstores, browsing shelves, piling and unpiling musty old volumes in search of treasure. That was how I learned to love books - how I cam to collect them. The bookstore is a magic place...I wrote a story about that once.Now they serve a purpose that ...
This is just a quick note to report on the progress of my Nanowrimo novel for the year, "Heart of a Dragon." I've been working on it for three days now, and have just passed the ten thousand word point. It's a good start. I always suggest that people binge write at the beginning to get a buffer zone built up for the days when writing just isn't possible. As usual I have set up a ...
