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July 20, 2016
Lake Roland is a Really Wonderful Spot for a Beginning Birder
Double-crested Cormorant at Lake Roland, 7/19/2016
I feel very lucky to live a mere ten minute drive from Lake Roland. There are two entrances, one of which is at the Falls Road Light Rail Stop. This entrance leads to a boardwalk that enters the park with the Light Rail tracks to the left and dense, to light, forest on the right. As a new birder, that walk is an outstanding training resource. In the few months I’ve been birding with an aim to learn and improve, I’ve begun to recognize nearl...
July 18, 2016
A Great Afternoon at Lake Roland
(Two Red-shouldered Hawks at Lake Roland, 7/15/16)
Work closed early on last Friday, so I took advantage and headed over to Lake Roland for some birding. I saw many more birds than I expected to for 2pm, including the above Red-Shouldered Hawks. I snapped that photo with my phone through my binoculars, and it didn’t turn out half bad.
I also was able to do a quick sketch of the Great Blue Heron I saw, which I spruced up in Photoshop (with some help from Nat).
(Great Blue Heron, Lake Roland,...
July 13, 2016
Baltimore Oriole
(Photo credit: Tyler Cone)
When my brother Tyler and his wife Andrea stopped by Baltimore for a visit, we decided to take a short hike at Lake Roland. There had been a Baltimore Oriole nest there for a while, and Tyler brought along his camera and lens to try to snap a picture of it. The above shot is one of several he was able to capture.
Until Nathalie and I began getting into birding, we had never seen a Baltimore Oriole, though similar to my Indigo Bunting story, we ‘always kept an eye o...
July 10, 2016
My Quest for an Indigo Bunting
(Photo by: Gareth Raspberry)
I’ve always enjoyed birds, but it wasn’t until the spring of 2012 that I had a bird ‘quest’. While hiking at the Cylburn Arboretum, Nathalie and I stopped by the Nature Museum. Among the collection of natural history objects housed within is a large variety of taxidermied birds. I had never seen or heard of many of the birds on display, and I was fascinated. One bird that stood out to me was the Indigo Bunting. I read on the the placard that this beautiful bird i...
June 2, 2016
Story Sale: 2:00 AM at a Motel in the City
(Photo Credit: Dave Huth)
I’ve sold my flash fiction story 2:00 AM at a Motel in the City to Every Day Fiction. Still working out the details, but I’ll be sure to post again once I know a release date. I wrote the original draft in the summer of 2014 while taking the LitReactor course Writing the Weird taught by JS Breukelaar.
(Fresh haircuts.)
In other news: Harrison turns 1 in 16 days. WHAT??
March 24, 2016
Still here, still writing, but a dad now, too.
I don’t expect that this site gets much traffic, but if you have happened upon it after reading one of my stories I wanted to make sure there is some sort of recent update here. Since Harrison was born my writing output has slowed, though not stalled. I’m still finishing work, but it is at a pace that is unlikely to fill this page up with frequent ‘I sold a story!’ updates. I have two stories out there now that have been receiving very favorable rejections that I hope will find the right hom...
November 4, 2015
Another quick update:
Harrison is four months old now, so here’s a new photo!
Still nothing to report when it comes to fiction. I did get one rewrite request, which is promising! We’ll see if it turns into an acceptance. Otherwise, life is very different with the baby. Still working out ways to fit writing in when I can. I know for sure it won’t be as often as it used to be, but I’ve been experimenting with writing from 6am until 7am, before the baby gets up. So far so good!
July 7, 2015
A Quick Update
Nothing to report on the story front besides a healthy amount of rejections…
But on the personal front: Our little guy, Harrison Tyler Cone, was born on June 18th. The last several months have been busy with preparing for his arrival, and now that he’s here, I couldn’t be happier!
January 3, 2015
OUT NOW! Shrieks and Shivers from the Horror Zine!
I am very excited to see that Shrieks and Shivers from the Horror Zine’s paperback edition is out 3 days early! The Kindle edition will be out on the 6th, as well.
“The Horror Zine is the true home of today’s visceral, organic horror, and the stories in SHRIEKS AND SHIVERS reflect the courage and imagination with which Jeani Rector has sustained this genre for the past six years. Be prepared to encounter the grue in gruesome, not only brought to you by some very experienced...
October 26, 2014
Creepy Freebies 2014 – Black Pageant
Get it FREE until Nov. 1st 2014 on Smashwords with coupon code: KM25T
I’ve bundled six of my stories into a mini-collection called “Black Pageant”, and from today until November 1st you can download the .mobi or .epub for FREE with the coupon codeKM25Ton Smashwords.
Table of Contents:
Compassion, During and After the Fall
Autumn in the Woods
The...
