Archive for the ‘horror’ Category

Moving the Goalposts

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Blogging is taking a back seat to the new novel (30K+ yea me!) And yes, I bumped up the total wordage of Valentine's Night, the spec novel I'm working on while waiting to hear back from Anne. Two reasons.I have trouble writing short, and I don't feel I'm ...

We just keep rolling along

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Well my latest spec project is still rolling along quickly, quickly enough that if Anne continues being overworked at Bantam, I might get the whole thing done before I have to do any editorial revisions on Wolfbreed #1 (titles, I need titles). I started it a week and a ...

Attack of the muse: redux

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

So I finished and turned in the Prophets draft. My next project is Wolfbreed #2 (Still need titles for those) but I can't really start until Anne at Bantam gets back to me, approving the outline for the next book. Since I didn't want to jump into the ...

Plot vs Character: aka The Emotional Zombie

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I finally got around to seeing 28 Weeks Later on DVD, and it's a great zombie flick and one of those rarities; a sequel that is a considerable improvement on the original. Not that 28 Days Later was a bad film, it was just sort of typical for the ...

Laughing with you/Laughing at you

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Well, I have again returned from the CWRU Film Society's SF Movie Marathon, which makes this about #20 for me. (I've been there enough times I've seen Zardoz twice there.) As last time, I've been left thinking about SF movies— in this case "SF/horror" movies since there was ...