Michael West’s The Wide Game: Memorable Horrors
Andrew
For background on The Wide Game and an interview with Michael West, see my guests’ page. The Wide Game is a tense, well-structured page-turner that draws on regional flavor–the fictional…
Book Thoughts
G.L. Giles, WATER VAMPS, and the Elements of Vampire Style
I picked up Water Vamps by G.L Giles on a recommendation. The line under the title, “a young adult adventure story,” would generally be enough to turn me the other…
FandomFest 2013: On Celebrities’ Secret Service
At FandomFest, farstucker strategic positioning mediated my male gaze at the beautiful Gillian Anderson as well as the OMFG-he’s-better-looking-in-person John Barrowman. Farstuckerily, I mention that he and I exchanged words.…
Public Reading, No Audience: Ballsy, Crazy, Stupid?
Turns out that actor Bill Moseley is intelligent and, at least after talking to him a bit, a heckuva a nice guy. But he freaked me right out when he…
Following Cult Thoughts
Some minor deity has blessed me, for I have published a novel about insidiously contagious cult behavior at the same time that two high-quality network TV shows on the same…