Evil Editor's Blog, page 374

Feedback Request

The author of the book featured in Face-Lift 711 has posted a new version in the comments there, and awaits your input.

Feedback Request

The author of the book featured in Face-Lift 707 has posted a new version in the comments there, and would like your input.

Face-Lift 714

Guess the Plot

The Fray

1. Initially it was Bob versus Tim. Then they enlisted reinforcements and it became the Blues versus the Reds. Then the conflict widened into North versus South. Then it went digital. Now, it's global.

2. When the scarves Aya is knitting for Christmas presents start to fray, so does her mind - convincing her doctor that knitting and mental illness are linked. Can he prove it in time to save his wife, a knittaholic?

3. Tessa knew that her posh new neighborhood had a reputat...

Cartoon 546

Caption: Steve Wright

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New Beginning 716

I am going. I have borne this bitterness too many years. The children are with their grandmother. I will come back to them in six days as though I had only gone to the moondark house. I cannot leave them to her. Look what she did to me.

There is starlight enough to see by. The long grass reflects it, the trees by the river swallow it. I walk in the light. No one can stop me.

No one will see me here, in the dark of the moon, in the dark under the trees.

All my life I have gone stumbling in the...

Book Chat

We'll discuss the December book, Black Hole, on Tuesday, January 5th, 6 PM eastern. If you can't make it, but have comments, send them on and I'll see they get into the discussion.






The January book is The Gentling Box, winner of last year's Bram Stoker Award for best first novel in the horror genre.
The author hopes to join us.


There's a link in the sidebar to the full chat schedule.

Cartoon 545

Caption: Steve Wright

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Face-Lift 713

Guess the Plot

Queen of Freaks

1. Daisy leads the circus clowns with a regal spirit, an iron fist, and six fire-juggling dwarfs who always do her bidding. So when Gladys says she won't wear the yard-long shoes or the red nose anymore, war breaks out.

2. Did Eddie lose his mind because of Wanda's bad meth? That unfortunate UFO sighting in New Mexico? His stint in the dancing chorus? His sister Lois isn't sure, but now that he's living in her basement, she wants him to ditch the bouffant wig and g...

Cartoon 544

Caption: Steve Wright

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Writing Exercise Results . . .

are in the posts below. The task was to write something inspired by the cartoon to the right.