Hadn’t thought of it like this

December 1, 2025December 1, 2025

I mean, in spite of wondering and wondering and not being able to figure out why all the intolerance we’re seeing, experiencing, trying to live through, are going to have…

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Guess Who’s in GQ?

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

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Mapping the Interior of Mapping the Interior

July 31, 2017July 8, 2018

For the book that became The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, I kept a kind of running diary of the writing of it, The Camopede Files. Was fun. It made…

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Werewolves & Me

May 20, 2016

Me in my office, playing with all things werewolf related. At least those I could reach without getting out of the camera’s eye. Also some talking, some reading, some injudicious…

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Trucks I’ve Had

August 21, 2015January 23, 2023

I wish I’d taken more pictures. A part of my heart is still with each of these trucks. I remember dragging a chain out of the bed and leaving a…

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We Could Be Heroes

August 8, 2014November 30, 2025

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Society Isn’t Doomed

June 20, 2014June 23, 2014

mix Buzzfeed‘s “23 Things that Prove Society is Doomed” with Salon‘s “War & Peace on the Subway: How Your iPhone is Saving Literature,” then angle it through my publicists’ rose-colored glasses, and…

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Reeling in the Years

March 5, 2014April 26, 2014

Back in the late nineties, I’d see Stephen Dixon stories all over and flip back to his author bio at the end of the journal or whatever not because I…

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Scared Straight: The Conjuring

August 5, 2013August 7, 2013

I keep thinking about these two kids who left the theater early. Say, ten minutes shy of the end, right when things were at their goriest, most sacrilegious frenzy. I…

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Cabin in the Woods intro/extro

July 1, 2013September 3, 2017

[ this is the script of the pre- and post-words I gave for a charity event Cabin-screening Friday night, down in Manitou Springs ] wolf kisses and bear traps The slasher. We…

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Look What the Cat Dragged In

January 9, 2012April 26, 2014

Don’t be afraid to embrace a song, or how it makes you feel. Remember the person you were when it touched you, or where you were — Brian Azzarello At the…

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e-booking: a summation

June 28, 2011January 29, 2012

Just a rough list of the e-book issues I can think of. And, I should say up top here that I’m pretty much addicted to my Kindle. So this isn’t…

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Tonight’s Cage Match: Fiction

December 30, 2009June 15, 2011

not based on a true story So I read more fiction than non-fiction. It’s a moral failing, I know: I prefer the make-believe. Too, though, I mean I write fiction….

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The Ruins: Poison Ivy (postdate:2008)

December 30, 2009August 23, 2024

In Five Words or Less: Boring title, good movie. In More than Five Words, with / without spoilers: In 1998, Sam Raimi adapted Scott Smith’s debut sensation A Simple Plan…

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Hadn’t thought of it like this

Guess Who’s in GQ?

Mapping the Interior of Mapping the Interior

Werewolves & Me

Trucks I’ve Had

We Could Be Heroes

Society Isn’t Doomed

Reeling in the Years

Scared Straight: The Conjuring

Cabin in the Woods intro/extro

Look What the Cat Dragged In

e-booking: a summation

Tonight’s Cage Match: Fiction

The Ruins: Poison Ivy (postdate:2008)

Lighthouse

Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library

Colorado Gold Writers Conference