Since I started working fulltime, my pockets are fuller, but the pace of my writing has vastly slowed. Primarily it’s due to time constraints. The six hours I used to spend each day sitting at my keyboard typing and staring out the window have dwindled to a mere one or none. Sometimes I am able to catch a few minutes at work, in between projects, to tap out a few minutes worth of words, but all in all I’ve dwindled from 10k words a week to a meager 2k.
It’s unfortunate, …

I hate universes. Not the physical, star-filled, we-live-in-one kind, but the kind that spawns a bunch of books, movies, and other sequels.
When I was a kid I was a Star Wars fan. I loved the movies. I watched them over and over. I played the video games (Dark Forces, an early shooter, and X-Wing, a flight simulation), and read the books. Good god, did I read the books. Recently I returned to my parents’ house. While I was there, I wandered down to my old room and looked at the …

like this blog and the booklist I was going to put on it. I got overwhelmed with the idea of updating, without ever doing any real updating. So here are the books I need to add to the list (again, not exhaustive because I haven’t been updating):
the shining – stephen king
zombie – joyce carol oates (holy hell, this kept me up nights.)
camilla – Sheridan Le Fanu
sharp objects – gillian flynn
dark places  – gillian flynn (finished an hour ago, as you can see, also, I’m up at night.)
The astute reader and …