Happy Groundhog Day to those of you listening to the show on February 2nd. I watched the movie of the same name starring Bill Murray last night just to celebrate. That is a movie that I have always enjoyed. Perhaps one day I will even use the idea of a continuous looping day or moment in a story. You just never know. As you may know, I had stories appear in two anthologies in 2013. The first anthology was Lucky or Unlucky: 13 Stories of Fate. I interviewed the editor, Nila White when we talked about the anthology back in episode 124. This episode, I talk with Charlie Brown, the editor of the second anthology I appeared in. That anthology […]
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I Have a Story in a Second Anthology This Month
Writing is often about luck and I know I’m VERY lucky to have stories appearing in two anthologies this month. The first story allowed me to revisit a character I’ve written about before. This time is different. It is a brand-new character in a genre I’ve enjoyed reading but had never written before (I liked the character and enjoyed writing the story enough that I think I will be doing more of the same in book-form later on). So, without further ado, let me announce that Dirty Magick: Los Angeles (from Lucky Mojo Press, edited by Charlie Brown) will be available as an eBook next Friday (November 15th) and in paperback nearer the end of the month. I think the […]
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Most of us have probably watched a holiday special of one kind or another. When I was a kid, that holiday special was always “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. Okay, I’ll admit it, I still watch “Charlie Brown Christmas” every year, even now. There are lots of other holiday specials out there too. “Star Wars Christmas” comes to mind as a particularly… well let’s just say memorable to be charitable. The Muppets have a couple and pretty much every cartoon out there has at least one. I even saw “Ice Age Christmas” in the stores the other day. Yes, I bought it and it is pretty funny. All these specials got me thinking about why their creators did them in the […]
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