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Life’s a Beach
It’s been a while. Lots of water under the bridge in the past few months but, more importantly, lots of water in front of the beach house where we spent the last week. For nearly 20 years, my wife and...
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I’m a terrible blogger
Months go by in the blink of an eye. I could blog more. I should blog more. And yet there never seems enough time. It’s not like I don’t have news to share—there’s always something going on that I...
View ArticleI Feel Fine
Brian Keene and Christopher Golden announced (finally!) the anthology they are co-editing: The End of the World as We Know it – Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. Brian has been hinting about this...
View Article2023 – The Year in Review: (1) Publications
The year 2023 is almost at an end and we’re staring down the barrel of 2024, which looks like it may be an “interesting” one, in the Chinese curse sense of the word. I find it instructive to listen to...
View Article2023 – The Year in Review: (2) Books
I’m trying to get back in the swing of things after a two-week vacation visiting family in northern California. That’s the longest I’ve been away from home in a long, long time. It’d been a year and a...
View Article2023 – The Year in Review: (3) Movies and TV
The interview that almost wasn’t: Beyond Horror: The Enduring Impact of Stephen King. I was interviewed by Tim Webster for the Overnights show on Australian public radio. Webster is a self-avowed fan...
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Stephen King: His Life, Work, and Influences (Young Readers’ Edition)
Where the hell did February go? We even got an extra day this year and still…gone. Finito. So, what’s new? Well, on September, 2024 I’ll have a new book on shelves…bookstore shelves and library...
View Article1917 was a long time ago. So was 2020
I’ve been using (and re-using) a joke that goes like this: The last time I saw a movie in a theater was 1917. It only makes sense if you remember the great Sam Mendes war movie of that name, filmed to...
View ArticleAll roads lead to 1984, it seems
Several weeks ago, I was contacted by Michael Small of the I Couldn’t Throw It Away podcast. Their series is a discussion about things he and his cohost, Sally Libby, rediscover. They then debate...
View ArticleA Beryl full of monkeys
A lot of people in our region didn’t take Hurricane Beryl seriously when it entered the Gulf of Mexico. Early indications were that it would go to Mexico (which it did) and keep going that way (which...
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Publication Day 2024
Today is the day that Stephen King: His Life, Work, and Influences (Young Readers’ Edition) is unleashed upon the world. It’s available in paperback wherever books are sold and there’s also a Kindle...
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It takes a Village (Books)
Last Sunday, I was hosted by Village Books in The Woodlands to celebrate the release of Stephen King: His Life, Work, and Influences (Young Readers’ Edition). It was a beautiful day after a run of...
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Review: Caddo Lake
Because I signed up with Max as a reviewer for ‘Salem’s Lot, I was given advanced access to another feature film coming on that streamer on October 10. I’d heard nothing about Caddo Lake prior to that...
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River Oaks
Thanks to a referral from an online acquaintance, I was asked to moderate a dialog with bestselling author Daniel Kraus at the newly re-opened River Oaks Theater in Houston. His recent novel, Pay the...
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