Down By the Seaside, Redux

The WIP has been sent to my agent. My watch is off. Off to the shore for a bit to hang with the fambly. See ya later...be excellent to one another.

(Oh, and if anyone reading this is inclined to take advantage: I live across the street from one cop, down the street from another, and next door to the former mayor's house. It's a pretty well patrolled area. )

The Two Craziest Days of Your Working Life

(1) The day before you leave on vacation.
(2) The day you come back.

Discuss.

Done. For Now.

I hate this fucking Work In Progress so much right now. It's all I can do not to delete every vestige of it from every computer, every backup drive, every place it might conceivably be.

Which means the rewrites are probably finished.

It's time to send it to my agent, then go sit on a beach with someone else's book and a big drink for a week.

After which I'll be able to look at it again.

Your Humble Blogger Works The Graveyard Shift

Over at Lee Lofland's excellent blog The Graveyard Shift, I talk about what you do as a lawyer when your client is not only the one who done it, but the State has a good chance of proving it. Check it out.

Storms, Strippers, and Southern Fried Noir: Your Humble Narrator Gets Bleaked

Bleak House Books is coming out with some great stuff, like Anthony Neil Smith's YELLOW MEDICINE and Nathan Singer's IN THE LIGHT OF YOU. So it was a particular honor for me when Ben LeRoy, one of the dynamic duo who runs the joint, asked me to do a podcast for their website. Check it out....

What The ...

My son just showed me something I have a little trouble wrapping my head around.

There is a Reservoir Dogs Playstation 2 game.

As a big fan of that movie, I have one question:

How the hell do you win?