Clowns Will Plot Devices

They really, really will. Just ask Stephen King.

I'm supposed to be sleeping right now but… eh. Can't sleep.

Clowns will eat me.

I was thinking about writers, their projects and how similar something one of them publishes is similar to another book which had come out not too long before. Take, for example, Ian McDonald's Planesrunner. It's a brilliant YA SF story about a boy who can cross dimensional planes while hunting for his father, who was abducted by people from another dimension...