Recent Posts Tagged With 'flashes in the dark'

• Commission vs. Submission

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 09:44 in Rant, snow, thoughts on writing, the business, flashes in the dark

  No school today (yippee!). More below.I'm a geek for word origins (etymology). In follow up to yesterday's post, I started thinking about the words commission and submission. As a writer, I've had exactly one commission. It was nice, my highest pe...

• I\'ve Been Violated (and so have many others)

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 20:50 in Rant, flashes in the dark, shock totem, richard ridyard, angel zapata

  So there's a plagiarist afoot who calls himself Richard Ridyard. It seems Tricky Dick tried to pull the proverbial wool over some eyes at Shock Totem by subbing a little changed version of Stephen King's "The Boogeyman".Um, Dick? Here's a clue: the e...

• Happy Birthday Owen! (with free stuff for everyone)

  Posted on Saturday August 8th, 2009 at 06:57 in free stuff, birthday, flash fiction, owen, publication, free book, flashes in the dark

  Owen turns six today, broken parts and all. Happy birthday, buddy.In the interest of pruning my overloaded bookshelves, I've started a rolling list of books I'll gladly "give" away for the cost of mailing them. Check it out here.Finally, I have a sto...

• Daddy's Touch

  Posted on Sunday May 31st, 2009 at 07:01 in flash fiction, publication, fifty-two stitches, flashes in the dark, shameful self-promotion, dermestid beetles

  I knew those trips to the natural history museum would pay off someday..."Daddy's Touch" is up at Flashes in the Dark today. Thank you, Family Dermestidae.Speaking of flash fiction, stop by Fifty-Two Stitches and read "Something in Common" by Joshua...

• The Horror of...Children's Books?

  Posted on Sunday April 5th, 2009 at 07:48 in flash fiction, owen, publication, thoughts on writing, pet sematary, flashes in the dark

  I have a flash piece entitled "Fuzzy" online at Flashes in the Dark today. This one was inspired by Owen, a children's book by Kevin Henkes about a little mouse-boy who doesn't want to give up his fuzzy yellow blanket. (The book also inspired my olde...