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July 21, 2009
Portlandia and Beyond
So this past weekend Team Seattle took to the road for an event in Salem at Escape Fiction. Decided to let the pictures tell the story this time…
For the rest of the set (WITH CAPTIONS!) Click the pic!
July 17, 2009
Author Avalanche!
The last couple of days have been clogged up with writer events, authors, aspiring writers and the people who love/loathe them. And it ain't over yet. Today Team Seattle hits the road for a signing in Salem (like I haven't pimped that one enough), but before then there'll be luxury hotels, sweaty shopping and a martini slurp-off.
But I digress.
Wednesday was Caitlin Kittredge's Street Magic reading/signing at University Bookstore in Seattle, so being a loyal-type, I hitched up the wagon and trudge
July 15, 2009
I'm Open to Theories…
…as to why I'm obsessed with this song…
I could be doing the frug while watching this video. You never can tell. In case you're unfamiliar…
Just sayin'. It could be happening while you watch this.
The Newsies
So it's official. We has a book. Battle of the Network zombies was accepted for publication on Monday (that means my editor was happy enough with the book that he's confident the copy edit is all it'll take to polish it up). Hello? Excited.
Anyways, so I'm moving on to working on the screenplay and YA proposal and juggling my friend's author events, my own signings, conferences, airfare, promo…aaaaaaahhhh!
One of the things I always do when I finish a book–have I ever mentioned I always forget to
July 4, 2009
When There's No More Room In Hell…
…the dead will go for cocktails.
What started out as a perfectly nice day trip to Seattle to hang out with Team Seattle folks ended in a nightmare of biblical proportions…and I loved it. The Fremont Outdoor Movies people pulled together a zombie walk/Thriller dance reenactment that clogged streets tighter than old man toilet and left blood smears on every sign, window and unsuspecting passerby.
And!!!!
We broke the world record, at last count the registration reported 3800 something, but expect th
July 2, 2009
Stuff, Stuff, also Stuff
Lots of news this week that isn't related to finishing a book or starting a new project. Except. My YA and screenplay intentions were Shanghai-ed by the secretly titled druggie starlet/sensitive high school jock/sexy vampire stewardess drag racing book ala Russ Meyer. The way it's starting out it's hitting all my go neurons. Foul mouths, kinky sex, women who fist fight. Oh yes.
But I'm getting off track. What I wanted to tell you is this…
If you're anywhere near the city of Seattle tomorrow (Fr
July 1, 2009
The Book from Hell
I finished my revisions on BATTLE OF THE NETWORK ZOMBIES on monday and sent that bad boy off to my agent and an author friend to slash and hack until I've got something that resembles a readable book. There's at least one chapter in there that's such a word salad, they'll need a crouton trail to find their way out. Sorry guys!
This was one of those "books from hell" you see authors bitching about, endlessly, as we have a tendency to do about a variety of things. If we were the sorts to keep our
June 27, 2009
Snippet Saturday - A Food Scene
If my zombie character, Amanda, loves anything it's a quick bite before hooking up with some swarthy werewolf. So this week's Snippet Saturday was a cinch. Here's a clip from the upcoming BATTLE OF THE NETWORK ZOMBIES (March 2010). Enjoy…
The kid nodded and shuffled off in the direction I indicated. When not racing like a madman across a moderately busy freeway, he expressed a slight limp, favoring his right leg explicitly. He lugged the left behind him with a spare hop at the end of each st
June 16, 2009
Bomb-ass Birthday Bonanza
Wow.
This weekend was packed with the celebrations, fo sho. Let’s recount them, shall we?
Friday…
Caroline and I trudged forth to the wilds of Seattle to meet up with Synde for some not-writing, as it turns out. What we did do was head to Trophy Cupcake for some bitterness, not in the form of burnt coffee beans ala Starbucks, but unpleasant counter staff. Nevermind that we drove 50 miles to have a pineapple upside down cupcake complete with cherry in its scrumptious brown sugar icing and told th
June 13, 2009
Snippet Saturday! Outtakes
So, a while back, the fantastic Lauren Dane contacted me to be a part of a group project called Snippet Saturday. Each Saturday, for the duration of the summer we’ll be posting snippets from our shiz that fit into that week’s topic.
This week is outtakes. Lovin’ it.
So, I give you a chunk of Amanda from Road Trip of the Living Dead, I just couldn’t fit into that book, no matter how hard I tried. It includes one of my favorite characters. Beth Liebowitz, voodoo priestess. She’ll be showing up
