Salsa y Catch Up

I decided to finally join the 90s and do me up an authory blog, and here it is. Pretty sparse right now, but I'll work on that. Now to catch up on my author-like activities.

Most recently, my short story "Playing Pox" was published in the premier issue of Three Crow Press. And just as fabulous, "Pox" was favorably reviewed by the equally fabulous KV Taylor. On the Internet no one can see you smile (unless you're one of those webcam fanatics), but I assure you, I am a smile machine, easily mistaken for a Bobby McFerrin song of yore.

Prior to that, I wrote the lyrics to the song "Nyarlathotep" from The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets's theme album The Shadow Out Of Tim. If you can't guess the theme from the title, you need to read more Lovecraft. This was the most fun, and probably the fastest I've ever worked. I had massive help with the translation from Inanna Gruner, who is completely not responsible for my horrible grammar. She did what she could, but I'm afraid I am an incurable Egyptological embarrassment. I strongly encourage everyone to support the Thickets. They're great guys and they've been making my life more wonderfully disturbed with their music for many years.

Now I'm working on some very unglamorous but paying freelance work (imagine my surprise, waking one day from anxious dreams to discover that I had changed into a journalist!), which interferes with my other writings, not to mention housework. Even now the dishes are plotting a coup.