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In a comment about President Obama’s over-exposure in the media, talk show host Glenn Beck said the following: “We just didn’t see [President Obama] enough. … The man was everyplace. The only place he didn’t show up in was my bedroom to personally talk to my wife and make sweet love to her. At least […]

I am not referring to the rainstorms lashing Arizona, though I could be. Weird thing, rainstorms in a desert. Having grown up in New England, I’m used to rain. The ground usually soaks it in. Not here. The ground is like adobe brick, so the water sheets off. Now I enjoy hydroplaning down the highway […]

On Monday, feeling disinclined to work because of a strained calf muscle and a sore back from soccer, I Tweeted and Facebooked the following: “To Avatar or not to Avatar, this is the question.” I got a flurry of responses to that simple post on both services (far more so than on any other post […]

As you can see from the image above, When Dragons Rage has made it into French! Marc Simonetti did the cover for Milady and I love it. The book hit the stands in November—Nina Peacock actually had a picture of it on a shelf, which was the first I knew it was out. There’s something […]

There seems to be a bit of confusion about agents among writers, and some anxiety that’s cropped up because of a Wall Street Journal article that talks about the state of the publishing industry and their reluctance to look at any submissions coming in without an agent being the source. The article suggests that what […]

I’m not exactly sure when my fascination with Haiti started. It was back in grade school, and likely before 6th grade. I had to do a report on it and I remember reading that, back in the 1960s, the per capita income was $12 a year. Back then, I think my allowance was $3 a […]

Pat Robertson has for years been a parody of Billy Graham—the evil twin, or the stupid cousin, or spiteful understudy. Nothing he does should surprise me, but he has this incredible ability to do so. The latest, of course, is his statement that the reason Haiti got nailed with an earthquake that devastated the country […]