This Week's Bullet Points

1. The White Stripes' Jack White has turned into quite the producer for legendary ladies like Loretta Lynn and Wanda Jackson. I would love to hear what he could do with Dolly Parton.

2. Got my author copy of Erotica Exotica , the new Richard Labonte anthology in which my short "Gordy & the Vampire" is featured. Hard sexy stuff.

3. I heard that the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival in N'Orleans was cancelled. I was really hoping to make it down there this year, but now it looks like I'll need to wait until 2013. This does not help my predilection for hermit-like behaviour.

4. Finished the first draft on Book 3 in my Jasper Lane series, SuburbaNights. Woot.

5. I had the fleeting idea of offering SuburbaNights as an episodic series on a blog rather than publishing it outright. Maybe that would gain me more readers?

6. If I ever wrote a vampire book, I would set it in a hospital and the main character would be a doctor named Le STAT. Hehe.

7. Parades are dumb.