Monday, March 11, 2013
Saturday, May 19, 2012
'grimmer' now just 99 cents
my writing time has been curtailed by work. as a result, publication of 'red' has been delayed. never fear! to help you get your spook on, for the rest of may, my short story horrorfest, 'grimmer', is just 99 cents on amazon!
who loves ya, baby?
who loves ya, baby?
Monday, April 9, 2012
new song: idk
i think this song says what a lot of us think these days: we can't trust our government, banks, churches, or wall street to act in our best interest. so many things have gone wrong that it's all a bit overwhelming, and it seems to spread every day. many of us have given up even trying to make sense of it all, let alone act. others have become polarized by well-paid talking heads on one side or the other who offer truckloads of soundbites and venom, but no real solutions.
i offer the only solutions i know, by now comfortably familiar to my long-term listeners: bonfires & unabashed cannibalism.
available after the jump as a free download for a limited time. bon appetit.
i offer the only solutions i know, by now comfortably familiar to my long-term listeners: bonfires & unabashed cannibalism.
available after the jump as a free download for a limited time. bon appetit.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
'ring around the rose' on sale
the first in a series, this story falls squarely in the contemporary fantasy/romance genre - quite a departure for me. here's the marketing blurb:
"Marmalades the lives of a sarcastic chain smoker who may or may not be God, an immortal hero with 2nd thoughts, a bag lady who thinks she's a Valkyrie, a dysfunctional Dwarf from Brooklyn, a serial killer wizard, a hotsy totsy princess, and a washed-up plumbing supply salesman to save the world from a trans-dimensional bio-terrorist before climate change, a meteor collision, or bad grammar can end it first."
Buy it quick, before someone makes it into a movie!
Saturday, March 31, 2012
losing the lottery
the odds of winning last night's mega millions lottery were 1 in 176 million - about the same as getting hit by lightning while being attacked by a great white shark in your bathtub.
we spent almost $2 billion in 1 week on this pipe dream.
americans spend more on lottery tickets than on books or movies, and 1 in 5 of us believe that winning the lottery is the best way to achieve financial independence. so while we're apparently not poor enough yet, our national iq has slipped down into the cow range.
we've said it before: lotteries are a tax on the poor and the hopeless, who are the ones who buy most of the tickets (instead of food, clothing, education, or something that might actually make a difference in their lives). the media never talks about that, or about how lotteries encourage gambling addiction, which is just as real as addictions to drugs or alcohol.
the next step will be web-based gambling, because states have become so dependent on this revenue stream that they can't get enough of it. that nonsense about lottery money going to education isn't even mentioned any more.
you might as well set your money on fire.
we've said it before: lotteries are a tax on the poor and the hopeless, who are the ones who buy most of the tickets (instead of food, clothing, education, or something that might actually make a difference in their lives). the media never talks about that, or about how lotteries encourage gambling addiction, which is just as real as addictions to drugs or alcohol.
the next step will be web-based gambling, because states have become so dependent on this revenue stream that they can't get enough of it. that nonsense about lottery money going to education isn't even mentioned any more.
you might as well set your money on fire.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
what's your most popular story?
as i write this, trophy is my most popular story by sales. (thank you, true believers!) it was also the first written.
crayon sugarsweet and the spooky thing, blue, and frost flowers are tied for second place. revenue-wise, crayon sugarsweet rules the roost, followed closely by grimmer, which hasn't even been out a month yet.
who says horror is dead?
i'm kicking around the idea of an illustrated version of my only-to-date love story slash contemporary fantasy, the ring around the rose, either just before or just after the second book in that series comes out, as much to learn how to do internal illustrations for the kindle as to have an opportunity to paint those terrific characters.
making progress on red, which will be my next book (because the world needs a wisecracking teen drama queen who knows how to handle granny-eating vampires and the ghosts of dead cheerleaders).
gingerbread hasn't sold much, i suspect because it came out just before grimmer, which includes it. (heck, for $2 more, i'd buy grimmer, too - especially since it includes the first chapter of red.) or maybe the world just isn't ready for hansel & gretel as cannibals.
crayon sugarsweet and the spooky thing, blue, and frost flowers are tied for second place. revenue-wise, crayon sugarsweet rules the roost, followed closely by grimmer, which hasn't even been out a month yet.
who says horror is dead?
i'm kicking around the idea of an illustrated version of my only-to-date love story slash contemporary fantasy, the ring around the rose, either just before or just after the second book in that series comes out, as much to learn how to do internal illustrations for the kindle as to have an opportunity to paint those terrific characters.
making progress on red, which will be my next book (because the world needs a wisecracking teen drama queen who knows how to handle granny-eating vampires and the ghosts of dead cheerleaders).
gingerbread hasn't sold much, i suspect because it came out just before grimmer, which includes it. (heck, for $2 more, i'd buy grimmer, too - especially since it includes the first chapter of red.) or maybe the world just isn't ready for hansel & gretel as cannibals.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
