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Requiem

Never forget.

Upcoming Events

My schedule for the remainder of the year is beginning to firm up, but still includes a few tentative items. If you’d like to schedule me, please contact me as soon as possible. Thanks!

CapClave – Tentative
October 7-9, 2016
Gaithersburg, MD, MD
Hallowread – Confirmed
October 21-23, 2016
Havre de Grace, MD
ChessieCon– Confirmed
November 25-27, 2016
Timonium, MD
Carroll County Author’s Day– Tentative
November 5, 2016
Westminster, MD
Bel Air Authors and Artists– Confirmed
December 3, 2016
Bel Air, MD

2016 Balticon Schedule

I hope I’ll be seeing you at Balticon this weekend!

I drew the short stick when it comes to panels, but I’ll be at several events over the weekend:

Saturday – 2:00 PM Autographing!
The Gimungous Autograph Session
Signing my name, along with: Diana Bastine, Walt Boyes, Alessia Brio, Val Griswold-Ford, Tom Doyle, Scott Edelman, Phil Giunta, Kelly Harmon, Starla Huchton, Mur Lafferty, Grig Larson, Chris Lester, Gail Z. Martin, Mark MacDicken, Christine Norris, Ada Palmer, TJ Perkins, Jennifer R....

Cover Reveal – A Blue Collar Proposition

Here’s the cover! Guess what that means?

Writing Prompt – Deserted

According to the artist who took this photo, (Nikos Koravos | @Dreamstime):

“A lot of deserted houses can be found in the island of Kythera, Greece, most of them in a very bad condition.”

In Washington, DC in a really bad snow storm, people have been known to abandon their cars on the Beltway and just walk away from them.

Similarly to the people of Greece, I’d guess, are the accounts I’ve seen (in the news) of people—who are so ‘upside down’ on their mortgages—they simply walk away from their...

Meet and Greet at the Horse You Came in On

I’ll be at the Horse You Came In On this Friday with a bunch of other authors from Hallowread. There will be door prizes and swag giveaways, and of course, we’ll have books for sale. The “Buy a Book, Get a Beer” program will be up and running.

Time: 4 – 8 pm
Place: 1626 Thames Street, Fells Point, Baltimore

More info at the Horse You Came In On Web site.

Writing Prompt – You Had Me at “Hello.”

Hello.

Bonjour.

Ciao.

Shalom.

Nǐ hǎo.

Cześć.

Hallo.

There are a ja-billion ways to say hello—and its equivalent—in a ja-billion different languages.

‘Sup?
Good Day.
Hey.

Greetings are a mixed bag. Formal situations call for formal greetings. (How do you do?) Early morning salutations differ between chipper folks (Good Morning!) and those who need a few more cups of coffee (unintelligible grunt). Greetings between good friends ride the scale between none at all, and hopping right into conversa...

Writing Prompt – Dreams and Other Gifts of the Night

Do you dream?

I almost never dream. I’m always excited when I do.

I had a dream about two weeks ago where I was walking across the landscape and there were black snakes all over the ground as far as I could see. I couldn’t take a step without watching closely so that I wouldn’t step on one. They weren’t stationary, but moving sinuously in all directions. The entire landscape undulated with movement.

Seriously cool. I love snakes.

(I know a bunch of you are probably creeped out about now. Sor...

Writing Prompt – Anticipation

It’s cold and windy here today, and I should have expected it, because we had some icy precipitation late last night and that never bodes well for the morning.

But last weekend it was warm enough outside to wash the car and do some painting. So it had me hoping for an early spring.

No such luck.

But here I am anticipating it.

I’m looking forward to getting my hands dirty in the garden and uncovering the fig trees. I’m ready to sweep winter’s grime off the garage floor, and do a bit of spring...

Audio Edition of Stoned in Charm City – Coming Soon!

I’ve just made an official offer for Stoned in Charm City to be produced as an audio book!

I’ll be sending the paper files to the narrator later this week, and receiving an audio file of the first several chapters for review by the end of March.

Color me excited!

Barring any complications, the narration should be complete by the end of May—just in time for Balticon!