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What to Know: May 6, 2010

Hi, I'm Charlie Huston, and this is my website.

These days I'm finding that I need to stay focused on my writing in a manner that does not allow me to spend any time composing random thoughts or essays that I feel are worth the time it would take for me to write them down or for you to read them. I'm also of the opinion that this site, from its name to its esthetic, no longer speak to what I am writing or anything I might have to say here.

It's also just plain tired and packed with dead...

No Strategy

And then there were yellow flowers all over the tree outside my office window.

Which is a nice thing to look at in the month of March, but also a garish reminder of just how long it has been since I popped over here and wrote something.

Oh, website, cruel mistress, why do you plague me so?

Why have I ignored you so long?

Many reasons.

The updates:

Recently published titles are MY DEAD BODY, the last Joe Pitt Casebook; SLEEPLESS, a crime story set in a speculative immediate future; and DEATHLOK, an ...

Joe Pitt on My Year in Crime

Great blog name: My Year in Crime

Huge at the Columbus Library!

I like libraries and librarians.

At Legacy Books

Some photojournalism from Mark M. Hancock who shot me at my Legacy Books appearance in Plano TX HERE.

These pics are best captioned by my editor Mark Tavani -

Photographer: "Charlie, give me painfully serious. Good, good. Now give me tattooed but still idealistic. Yes! Now, reach out to that audience. Be one with them. Take them into your creative process. Now you're a scared little boy. Scared little boy! Now make nice nice with the reading public. Oh, you're a natural."

SLEEPLESS Review in Las Vegas Weekly

SLEEPLESS reviewed by Smith Galtney in Las Vegas Weekly HERE.

SLEEPLESS Review in the NY Times

Marilyn Stasio of the New York Times says that SLEEPLESS is

"…a traditional police procedural neatly tucked into a stunningly original work of speculative fiction."

And, really, who am I to disagree with her?

The review is third in Ms. Stasio's lineup this week, so scroll a bit after the link.

Interview on Huffington Post

You can find me answering a few questions from Ed Zintron of The Huffington Post over HERE.

DEATHLOK Preview

Over on Newsarama there's a seven page preview of DEAHLOK #4.
It's the middle issue of a seven issue run, but you can get a pretty good idea of the whole damn thing from these pages.
I haven't spent any time pimping this title, for which I'm a bit bummed. I've been too busy to do much pimping at all, but I really like the way this story turned out and I'd have liked to have gotten behind it a little more.
So, for what it's worth at this late date, DEATHLOK is out there demolishing for a few...

SLEEPLESS Reviewed on All Things Considered

SLEEPLESS reviewed by Alan Cheuse on NPR's All Things Considered right HERE.