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FULL BLEED: IT’S ALWAYS THE QUIET ONES

Yes, I took last week off from this. Of course, it’s hard to call it a job if you’re not getting paid, right? So maybe I just typed fewer words or something. Things are late this week due to a variety of family things coming together and happening all around the same time. The hard parts of these are settled and with as good a result as one can hope for in the short term, so that’s a good thing.

YouTube links of wonder will return next week. Unless I decide I’m done with that. Like I said, I...

FULL BLEED – BEHIND THE MASK.

No secret to the title this week, just the track I was listening to when I got to work, by Yellow Magic Orchestra (in 1979!)

Last week was a bit more wheel-spinning than I’d like. Trying to get back on track, but I did turn over a few interesting things in the process. All of this research is pointing towards THE FUTURE AMERICA and the three story introductory one-shots I’m writing for it, so if you see a common theme, good for you!

First off, we have a look at the Abel Archer exercise that...

FULL BLEED: TOMORROW NEVER HAPPENED

A few things I’ve been into lately:

1. ROBOCOP arcade game (1987) playthrough:
https://youtu.be/nQutm0TjZfw?list=LL44gM1R6OrO-WLTGLqWWzCg

2. Making of ROBOCOP documentary
https://youtu.be/8Noum7llJDY?list=LL44gM1R6OrO-WLTGLqWWzCg

3. Siouxie and the Banshees on the BBC
https://youtu.be/5qlm234lbeM?list=LL44gM1R6OrO-WLTGLqWWzCg

4. Evel Knievel getting roasted by Dean Martin and friends in 1975: (yes, that’s Barry Goldwater)

5. A typical episode of THE GONG SHOW (RIP Chuck Barris)

6. An intima...

FULL BLEED: COME CLOSER AND SEE

Let’s catch up.

1. I’m working on STRANGEWAYS again, and to that end, I’m reposting at least the first chapters of MURDER MOON and THE THIRSTY. I may repost the whole thing because I can hardly see it making sales any worse at this point. Updates Tuesday-Friday with some kind of bonus post Friday. Why not Mondays? Because Mondays are actual blog post days, like today. Here’s the magic URL: http://highway-62.com/strangeways. Reminder that both volumes are available in their entirety at: http:...

Surfacing

Ah, but blogs are dead, right? It’s all about your free contributions of content to #branded platforms so that you can extend your reach and find like-minded individuals to help broadcast your thoughts, beliefs and most-importantly, your projects.

Pretty sure it’s clear where I stand on all that. If not, well, Facebook wants to harvest your clicks to use you as a product. Twitter would too, if they could figure it out. Tumblr is about the same. Geez, look up one DJ rig on Amazon for research...

FULL BLEED: WAKING THE WITCH

It’s that season again. The trees are being steadily shorn of leaves, but the grass beneath them grows, having slept out the summer. The pumpkins are being put away, whether in pieces after vandalism or whole and unloved past their expiration date. It’s November. It’s that time.

National Novel Writing Month is upon us again. Steel your souls against the waves of advice and unrelenting encouragement. Be ready, for they are legion and will not be stemmed so easily. Their teeth want your flesh,...

FULL BLEED: RUNNING UP THAT HILL

Only I won’t be making any deals. I know things don’t work that way. Yeah, there’s maybe four of you who will get that joke.

This week will be big. At least assuming that the insurance company stops fouling up the infomation chain and my wife’s surgical procedure gets approved. Apparently when you put humans into an equation and there’s several chains of information running through them all, there’s a chance that mistakes will get made. Only these mistakes can have some serious fallout.

Been...

FULL BLEED: TERMINATION STATION GREY

Let’s get the news out of the way first.

1) I signed a contract yesterday. Kind of a big deal for me because it’s not something I’ve done very often. Last time was a story for Blizzard Entertainment, which actually has yet to be printed (meaning that it won’t ever be.)

2) It’s for a story titled “The Queen of No Tomorrows” which is a thing that I’ve referred to as with the code-name ABYSSAL. This name might or might not stick. The project itself has changed some since inception (which is a g...

FULL BLEED: ABYSSAL

2016 continues to be an unpredictable mother of a year. I know, for everyone, right? But me and my family have had a few punches thrown that we didn’t see coming, and payments from others are coming due.

One thing that I probably didn’t talk up enough was appearing in TOMORROW’S CTHULHU from Broken Eye. I should have made a bigger deal about it as it was the first thing that I’d sent to an open anthology call (that’s a thing in F/SF/genre) that actually got printed. But I’ll be honest. When...

FULL BLEED: ANOTHER VOICE

Quick-ish follow-up to Tuesday’s post. The consultation went as well as we could expect it to. Managing expectation is an important life skill and I recommend it to everyone reading this right now. Or everyone in general.

The upshot of things is that my wife will be getting the surgery, barring any surprises, in the timeframe of three months or so from now. This assumes all bureaucratic expectations are fulfilled. This process will require several trips to San Francisco and back (that’s okay...