Current mood:	working
Current music:	Gordon Lightfoot--Gord's Gold

Spring has sprung?
Well, maybe...yesterday the last of the snow on my front lawn melted away and has essentially turned to muddy dead grass. Temps are up in the 40s now. Sweeeet!

This poor neglected journal. I really should be better about updating it, I know. I've been so busy that this is the first time I've come up for air in a couple of weeks. Here's what I've been up to:

Hallow House has reached a length of 75K words, which is nice but it's still not nearly finished. It's taken a ton of research into some very interesting places: Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Haggadah, Kabbalah, etc. along with the writings of Sir Laurence Gardner. As with most things, I realize the more that I learn, the less I actually know...and the more I am driven to learn more, hence the endless cycle.

Aside from writing, I'm working on illustrations.

Some very cool news: Scrybe Press is going to publish the Book of Monsters anthology, edited by C. Dennis Moore. BOM contains my psycho killer story about a young model who meets up with a rather disturbed artist in 'Colors of Murder'. A Halloween release is anticipated. Also heard from Black Death Books with an acceptance for my short 'Where Secrets Fester' for their anthology The Blackest Death, vol II. This story is about a social outcast who gleans certain information from the things that people throw away. Also sold a book review to the Book of Dark Wisdom print magazine, which will be published in issue 4 (Sept.).

Did I mention spring cleaning? I've no idea why I take part in this annual ritual (I keep my house comfortably clean throughout the year--I'm no neat freak, don't have time for that-- but surely this surge of 'must scrub down everything with Spic-n-Span mentality' must be something genetic? Hormones, maybe. Funny how no one else in the family is stricken with this affliction, isn't it?

One gripe, no biggie, though. Doesn't it just figure they moved Kingdom Hospital from Wednesday nights to Thursday nights, just opposite CSI: Crime Scene Investigation? Now why the heck did ABC do that? Doesn't it make sense that the same general group of folks who are interested in KH are also CSI viewers? This means I'm going to have to tape CSI in my son's room while watching KH in the living room. I know, I could wait for the CSI reruns...but most of my patience is used up on waiting for replies to submissions.

Lunch break is over, back to work for this kid....