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Dark Heat, the graphic novel I did with Vince Larue, is now on Kindle

Dark Heat, the graphic novel I did with Vince Larue, is now on Kindle:

And if you’ve already bought the paperback you get the Kindle edition for free, which is the case with most of my books.

criminalwisdom:GOOGLE GLASS’S UNLIKELY TESTERS: YOUR LOCAL...

criminalwisdom:

GOOGLE GLASS’S UNLIKELY TESTERS: YOUR LOCAL COPS»

Sgt. Eric Ferris of the Byron, Ga., police department recently added to his usual law-enforcement duties the role of cutting-edge gadget reviewer. In his review, Ferris said the new technology didn’t obscure his vision while driving or shooting, but it did result in “some funny looks and faces” from the public. Those funny looks should increase across the U.S. as local police forces are outfitted with wearable devices, including...

Conversation I just had

Me: “Will you pick up my meds while you’re out?”

Her: “Yes. Only one of us can be the nutter in this relationship and I’ve got that covered.”

The Big Click - Second Anniversary Issue

The Big Click - Second Anniversary Issue:

This issue of The Big Click has essays by me and by TomPiccirilli, and stories byB. DeMarco-Barrett andRebecca Ore.

The Big Click is one of my favorite magazines, and some of my best work has appeared there. I urge everyone to subscribe if you can.

hardboiled wonderland: Self Publishing Badasses

hardboiled wonderland: Self Publishing Badasses:

Jedidiah Ayres talks to me, Clayton Lindenmuth and Josh Stallings about self-publishing.

No writer taught me more than Elmore Leonard (click here for the...

No writer taught me more than Elmore Leonard (click here for the obituary I wrote for him), so this video made me smile and nod.

HOLDING BACK THE DAWNIn 2001, M.V. Moorhead decided to try to...

HOLDING BACK THE DAWN

In 2001, M.V. Moorhead decided to try to make a short film with no budget. I wrote the script, based on my short story of the same name from my 1992 book Get Out As Early As You Can. Most of it was shot in one day, and it was shown two years later at No Festival Required.

I like the film better than the story. In the story, and in the script for the film, the age of the two leads is unstated, and so the reader naturally assumes they’re around the same age. Moorhead is noti...

seraphica:Woodgreen Community Service in Toronto designed this...

seraphica:

Woodgreen Community Service in Toronto designed this campaign as part of their Homeward Bound Program supporting struggling single mothers. [x] [via]

The Problem With Science Is That It Plays No Favorites

The Problem With Science Is That It Plays No Favorites:

I agree with what James Ford Roshi says in this post. I’m often frustrated at how many people assume that if you’re a Zen practitioner, you must also believe in various kinds of “alternative” medicine.

If an “alternative medicine” actually works, it quickly stops being alternative.if a medicine has been “alternative” for a while, then it must be quackery.

Zen and horror: Our worst fears are always realized

What is the thing that we fear most? Some will say death, others will name other catastrophes, but it all amounts to the same thing: the loss of the certainties we cling to.

This is the heart of all that scares us, and so it is the fuel that powers every horror story. In Stephen King’s novelPet Sematary, there is a scene so chilling that nothing that follows matches it, even though there are 300 pages left.

A boy’s dog has died, and the town drunk takes him to a certain place and tells him to b...