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An Excerpt: Meet Morgana le Fay

Only a few more days before To Hell In A Handbasket, Book 3 in the "Halos & Horns" series is published! We saw a lot of Mordred in the first two books, but his mother, Morgana le Fay (Sorceress Supreme and lifelong foe of Merlin), figures prominently in Book 3. Fans of Arthurian legend know Mordred grows up to kill his father, King Arthur. Perhaps I should have retitled this excerpt "The Origin of Mordred".

An Excerpt: Morgana le Fay
Morgana’s grimoire grew over the next decade. She studie...

Sneak Peek of A New Book To Be Published This Month!

Here's a sneak peek at the cover of To Hell In A Handbasket, Book 3 in the Halos & Horns series, due out this month! The new edition also includes a massive bonus interactive "Guide to the Halos & Horns Series". The new cover is part of redesign of all of the book covers in the series. Tomorrow, I'll post an excerpt from To Hell In A Handbasket

Halos & Horns Book 2 Has A New Look

And A Child Shall Lead Them, Book 2 in the Halos & Horns series has a new cover for its revised Kindle edition. The new edition also includes an added preface and a massive bonus interactive "Guide to the Halos &amp Horns Series". The new cover is part of redesign of all of the book covers in the series. Tomorrow, I'll post the cover of Book 3: To Hell In A Handbasket, which will be published this month!

A New Look For Halos & Horns!

Paved With Good Intentions, Book 1 in the Halos & Horns series has a new cover for its revised Kindle edition. The new edition also includes an added preface, a director's cut version of "The Avatars", and a massive bonus interactive "Guide to the Halos &amp Horns Series". The new cover is part of redesign of all of the book covers in the series. Tomorrow, I'll post the new cover of Book 2: And A Child Shall Lead Them.

Never Duel with a Vampire

Dark Shadows has always been my favorite TV show for a number of reasons -- the subject matter, the characters, the plots, the actors, its uniqueness at the time -- but, as a writer looking back at my childhood obsession, I am amazed at the quality of its script writing. Below is one of my favorite exchanges of dialogue - five minutes of  no "action", unthinkable in today's TV script writing. More theater than television, we have actors Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) and Anthony George...

As the Coffin Lid Closes for the Final Time

I’ve written before in this blog of my love of all things Dark Shadows, so I should not have been surprised by the barrage of e-mails and Facebook messages waiting for me when I returned home this evening. I've been away from the computer all day, so this is my first chance to respond to the news of Jonathan Frid's passing. While not entirely unexpected (he appeared in poor health the last few times I saw him), it is extremely saddening news.
Dark Shadows was a major part of my childhood, and...

Mike Wallace – The Unasked Question

The news bulletin scrolled across the bottom of my TV screen. In recent decades, I had become inured to such scrolls. When I was growing up, the phrase “News Bulletin” scrolling across one’s television set was a riveting signal. Housewives stopped ironing, shoppers congregated around display TV sets in department stores, and hearts skipped a beat, as a nation waited in anticipation to learn if a president had been shot, war was about to be declared, or a NASA launch had ended in tragedy. Toda...

Nuance Doesn’t Get Tweeted

The written word, in social media, often loses much of its context. “I’m going to kill you!” when said by your smiling friend after you beat her in a game for the fifth time has a completely different meaning from the same words uttered by a knife-wielding assailant. But a tweet that says “I’m going to kill you!”, unanchored by context, is open to inference by the reader. One may see a joke where another reads a threat.
A recent study talks about how the current generation of bloggers and twee...

Nuance Doesn't Get Tweeted

The written word, in social media, often loses much of its context. "I'm going to kill you!" when said by your smiling friend after you beat her in a game for the fifth time has a completely different meaning from the same words uttered by a knife-wielding assailant. But a tweet that says "I'm going to kill you!", unanchored by context, is open to inference by the reader. One may see a joke where another reads a threat.
A recent study talks about how the current generation of bloggers and...

Here, Lizard, Lizard...

So, I'm driving to Starbucks for another proofreading session for the soon-to-be-published 7th edition of  Issues In Internet Law (which by the way is going to be awesome!) when I spot ... THAT... walking along the sidewalk. I didn't stop to measure, but I'm guessing it was about four feet from head to tail. Either a very big lizard or a rather small alligator.
Anyone want to hazard a guess what it was?





"Here, Lizard, Lizard..."