April 24 - The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men is released...after ten years. So veddy, veddy excited!
Minerva True is a River Dweller and mystic who lives deep in the forested hills of a river valley on the fringes of the world. She is the only person who sees the ancient danger that resides on a nearby chapel grounds. Most pay little heed to her warnings, and in the end only a small band of friends stand beside her. A tale of love and duty ensues, challenging the destinies of Minerva, the young hero Leith, his lover Aubrey, and the mute boy, Deverell. Leith’s half-crazed mother Calpurnia has her own aspirations, however, that prove detrimental not only to Minerva, but to everyone she comes in contact with.
April 24 - More Botox on my foot. Yaaaay :-/ I didn't notice too much response last time, so if it doesn't work second time around I'm gonna look for other treatments. Anyone know any shamans?
May 1 - Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open starts pre-sales HERE. This is gonna be one of the biggest anthologies of the year. Jesus told me so.
May 3 - A faux hawk before Arizona? Or will I chicken out?
May 6 - MY BIRTHDAY, gifts to myself: Cloud Atlas Blu-Ray and the new Patty Griffin CD. Woot!!
May 6 - Neuro appointment before I leave for Tucson with my new doctor. He might have some ideas about finding that aforementioned shaman.
May 10 - Leave for, and arrive in, Tucson, where we will see how hateful Teej's cat, Otter, is to me. I hate airports. The flights are fine. I'm seated. But airports? Oy, my vertigo... Still, the end point is well worth it :-)
May 16 - Radio interview with Teej and other writers from Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open on Elaine Raco Chase’s internet radio show. From 7-9pm EST. SUPASTAH!! This is my second radio interview so I'm kind of a pro. Still, I'm expecting raging talkwardness. This will not be helped by being in Tucson and Teej making funny faces at me the entire time.
May 17 - Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open release day!!!
May 20 - Teej's BIRTHDAY!!! My gifts to him are.....BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
The List: Things You Mayhaps Missed
1. My and Teej had a gratuitously romantic Valentines Day:
2. Our anthology Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open (release date May 17) got a ferocious cover by Kealan Patrick Burke:
3. New Additions to the E-pedia:
-Mayhaps - describing something that may happen.
-profound box - texting gibberish caused after taking Ambien while conversing with Teej.
-Happygeddon - source: Tj Klune, vast amount of happiness happening at one time.
4. Sent my book Woke Up in a Strange Place to Ellen Degeneres. Plan to send it to Anderson Cooper this week.
5. I was listed on Untreed Reads 25 Best Selling Writers of 2012. Woot!
6. The French translation of Simple Men was recently released. The French version of Galley Proof will soon follow. Paint me like one of your French girls.
7. Here's me in my Dolly shirt:
8. And me and Teej met a giant beaver:
Sunday, January 27, 2013
The List: Books and Botox
1. My sister, Amy Morrison, aka Amy Arvin, has been hired by Empire Press to do the cover for my upcoming books The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men and its fabtastic prequel Azrael & The Light Bringer. This is in no way nepotism. Believe me. If anything we're Joan Fontaine and Olivia De Havilland. (Does anyone get that, or am I too much of a nerd?) Here's a sample of her work and the style we're aiming for:
2. Cover artist Paul Richmond has chosen Woke Up in a Strange Place as his favorite cover he's ever done. I remember first seeing this and my jaw literally dropping. I might have even drooled. I'm gross. Clearly, one of the best covers of 2011 and if I were a better selling writer, Paul would have won something for it.
3. My men and music site Daventry Blue is now officially closed. It was a lot of fun, but I had said everything I needed to say with that blog, that being "Hubba hubba wonka wonkaa ooooo!" I appreciate the thousands and thousands of visitors. You made four years of my life fly by. I WANT THEM BACK!!
4. The French version of Simple Men is set for release on February 12th. This joins the Spanish, Italian, and, of course, English versions. Unfortunately, I'm not fluent in any of those three languages, so I have no idea what I wrote.
5. I had my first botox treatment. How do I look?
6. Woke Up in a Strange Place was mentioned in another book! How cool is that? Jackson Cordd discusses it in his book Cleats in Clay. I'm a pretty girl, Momma! Now, I can leave this planet with my alien brethren with the knowledge that my name will live on.
7. And finally, Tj Klune, me very own boyfriend, won the Goodreads M/M Romance group award Best M/M Romance of all time for Bear, Otter & The Kid. I'm so veddy veddy proud! That book is going to be read and loved for years to come. Which is awesome. Because he's coming with me. In space. With the aliens. Where no one can hear him scream. In bed.
2. Cover artist Paul Richmond has chosen Woke Up in a Strange Place as his favorite cover he's ever done. I remember first seeing this and my jaw literally dropping. I might have even drooled. I'm gross. Clearly, one of the best covers of 2011 and if I were a better selling writer, Paul would have won something for it.
3. My men and music site Daventry Blue is now officially closed. It was a lot of fun, but I had said everything I needed to say with that blog, that being "Hubba hubba wonka wonkaa ooooo!" I appreciate the thousands and thousands of visitors. You made four years of my life fly by. I WANT THEM BACK!!
4. The French version of Simple Men is set for release on February 12th. This joins the Spanish, Italian, and, of course, English versions. Unfortunately, I'm not fluent in any of those three languages, so I have no idea what I wrote.
5. I had my first botox treatment. How do I look?
Seriously, though, it was for my foot. My face is still as Arvinian as ever.
6. Woke Up in a Strange Place was mentioned in another book! How cool is that? Jackson Cordd discusses it in his book Cleats in Clay. I'm a pretty girl, Momma! Now, I can leave this planet with my alien brethren with the knowledge that my name will live on.
7. And finally, Tj Klune, me very own boyfriend, won the Goodreads M/M Romance group award Best M/M Romance of all time for Bear, Otter & The Kid. I'm so veddy veddy proud! That book is going to be read and loved for years to come. Which is awesome. Because he's coming with me. In space. With the aliens. Where no one can hear him scream. In bed.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
The List:: Our Christmas Vacation
"My boyfriend's pissed and he's gonna start a riot
Hey-la hey-la, my boyfriend's pissed
They told him not to come but he ain't gonna buy it
Hey-la hey-la, my boyfriend's pissed..."
2. My summation of the Paranormal Activity films I watched with Tj: guys are jerk holes. Listen to your wives, dipskittles! You gots a demons in your house!
3. Words from the dictionary of Arvin, otherwise known as E-pedia:
talkward - when one stumbles and stutters over words while the center of attention
cowsworth - as in, "that sandwich had a whole cowsworth of cheese on it!"
chesticles - first used in my Jasper Lane books, referring to a man's beefy pecs
truthsetto - like a falsetto, but more honest
Disney kiss - lips puckered, no tongue
"I once punched a mountain" - Tj's interpretation of what I say and sound like when I'm on Ambien.
The Lurve - The famous Parisien museum...according to Tj
The Macedonian Era - According to Tj, some ancient era of time
monkery - the place where monks reside
testicle difficulties - According to Teej, technical difficulties...with your balls
donkey sham - "thank you"....a derivative of German
4. Listening to music deep into the night with someone who understands the simple pleasure and joy of listening to music: priceless. Yup. He's meant for me.
5. Burn, baby. Burn.
6. I have been told by someone who has read my horror manuscript The Rascal that it reminded him of the film Insidious, and now, after finally seeing the movie with Teej over New Years, I can indeed see it.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
The List: Things and People to Come
1. My book Woke Up in a Strange Place is nominated for Favorite All-Time M/M Romance at the Goodreads M/M Romance Group awards. How awesome is that? It's up against some amazing competition, including books by Tj Klune, E.M. Forster, and Mary Renault. SuburbaNights is also up for Best Humorous Book. Also too as well, Woke Up was chosen as best book of the year over at Joyfully Jay. I'm feeling so Sally Field-like these days, surprised by all the love and always with a brown mop of hair atop my head.
2. Every time I hear the phrase "big ass giveaway" I get very excited...but it always ends in disappointment when I realize the speaker isn't being literal. Bastards.
3. Sometime in the past year my men and music blog Daventry Blue passed a million views. That's kinda cool, huh? My blog has been passed around more than one of them asses in that "big ass giveaway."
4. Tj Klune is coming to visit me here in Indiana. Shhhhenanigans!! Be sure to watch for our video where we'll be answering all sorts of sundry questions asked by you fine, sundry folk. That piece of performance art should be up here, there, and everywhere this Friday. Just a warning, though. If you heard my interview with Stonewall Live a few weeks ago, you know I can get a bit talkward. I'm a stumbler, a mumbler, and a boozer...er, I mean, a bumbler.
5. Thinking about a new erotic illustrated story along the lines of "Kid Christmas," this one called "The Skankiest Gun in the West." Tee-hee. Teej thinks it's a great idea and that's all that matters. I wonder if Absolutbleu would be up for it.
6. Galley Proof got an Honorable Mention at the Rainbow Awards! I'm honored. I know the book isn't everyone's cop o' tea, but it owns a special place in my heart AND HAS JUST BEEN OPTIONED FOR FILM BY ANG LEE!!! ...that's a total falsehood. 'Twould be real damn cool, though, eh?
7. "Ghouls Gym," the zombie satire Teej and I are writing for Empire Press' upcoming zombie antho Zombie Boyz, is coming along fantastically. I think we've invented a new genre: zombie pathos. It's a story that's equal parts thrilling, gross, sexy, funny, and scary, with a big dose of heart. Tj and I are having a blast working together.
8. I have an appointment with a rehab therapist the day after Teej leaves. I'm hopeful this fella will have some ideas on what to do with my foot. I've let them know I'm open to being put on any test medicine or procedure this side of being cloven-hooved. Though, being a sexy cloven-hooved sex demon would be interesting, wouldn't it, Teej? Yeah, it would. Yeeeeeeah, bitch.
3. Sometime in the past year my men and music blog Daventry Blue passed a million views. That's kinda cool, huh? My blog has been passed around more than one of them asses in that "big ass giveaway."
4. Tj Klune is coming to visit me here in Indiana. Shhhhenanigans!! Be sure to watch for our video where we'll be answering all sorts of sundry questions asked by you fine, sundry folk. That piece of performance art should be up here, there, and everywhere this Friday. Just a warning, though. If you heard my interview with Stonewall Live a few weeks ago, you know I can get a bit talkward. I'm a stumbler, a mumbler, and a boozer...er, I mean, a bumbler.
5. Thinking about a new erotic illustrated story along the lines of "Kid Christmas," this one called "The Skankiest Gun in the West." Tee-hee. Teej thinks it's a great idea and that's all that matters. I wonder if Absolutbleu would be up for it.
6. Galley Proof got an Honorable Mention at the Rainbow Awards! I'm honored. I know the book isn't everyone's cop o' tea, but it owns a special place in my heart AND HAS JUST BEEN OPTIONED FOR FILM BY ANG LEE!!! ...that's a total falsehood. 'Twould be real damn cool, though, eh?
7. "Ghouls Gym," the zombie satire Teej and I are writing for Empire Press' upcoming zombie antho Zombie Boyz, is coming along fantastically. I think we've invented a new genre: zombie pathos. It's a story that's equal parts thrilling, gross, sexy, funny, and scary, with a big dose of heart. Tj and I are having a blast working together.
8. I have an appointment with a rehab therapist the day after Teej leaves. I'm hopeful this fella will have some ideas on what to do with my foot. I've let them know I'm open to being put on any test medicine or procedure this side of being cloven-hooved. Though, being a sexy cloven-hooved sex demon would be interesting, wouldn't it, Teej? Yeah, it would. Yeeeeeeah, bitch.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
The List: A Few Little Things...
1. My friend and sexy artist Absolutbleu has shown me a rough draft cover of our Bubbles n Gordy erotic graphic novel, and let me just say say, there is a whole lotta bubble there. Should be out next year.
2. Finished the second draft of my spec fic epic Terms We Have For Dreaming just days before I came down with an atrocious cold.
3. Ha! Me and Teej?
2. Finished the second draft of my spec fic epic Terms We Have For Dreaming just days before I came down with an atrocious cold.
3. Ha! Me and Teej?
Thanks, Will
4. Teej and I have started writing Ghouls Gym for the upcoming Empire Press anthology Zombie Boyz. By the way, here's a look at that awesome cover:
5. My interview HERE at Stonewall Live has received near 8000 individual downloads, not including repeat listens, last I heard. Thank you everyone!
6. Have you ever looked at your computer and thought to yourself, My God! I never want to see you again.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
The List: Big Things Ahead
1. PREPARE YESELF!! Big announcement here. In the works now, a new anthology featuring work by Tj Klune, S.A. McAuley, Sjd Peterson, Abi Roux, Cyndie Hastey, and yours truly. Unconventional stories by unconventional writers. The title is Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open and is set for release this May. Are ya excited?! Get excited!!
2. Still more excitement! I'm working on a zombie satire with Tj Klune called "Ghouls Gym" which will appear in Empire Press' forthcoming collection of three novellas titled Zombie Boyz.
3. Speaking of Empire Press, I'm in the process of signing The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men over to them. Nothing is finalized yet, but I am pumped about this!
4. American Horror Story: I'm done with it. What a mess. It's like I'm in the show's production meeting and Ryan Murphy has shouted, "Throw out every clicheed idea you have!" Flesh-eating monsters, a serial killer, an asylum, a mad scientist, ghosts, Nazis, AND aliens? Oy. Too bad, too, because Jessica Lange is awesome.
5. The Rest is Illusion is still up for free download on GoodReads until this coming Thursday. It was also chosen as November's Book of the Month on the MM Romance Group's page.
6. Anyone who missed my interview on Stonewall Live last weekend you can catch it HERE. A star is born!! ;-)
7. Jeff Buckley was born on this day in 1966. A beautiful and talented man gone too soon.
2. Still more excitement! I'm working on a zombie satire with Tj Klune called "Ghouls Gym" which will appear in Empire Press' forthcoming collection of three novellas titled Zombie Boyz.
3. Speaking of Empire Press, I'm in the process of signing The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men over to them. Nothing is finalized yet, but I am pumped about this!
4. American Horror Story: I'm done with it. What a mess. It's like I'm in the show's production meeting and Ryan Murphy has shouted, "Throw out every clicheed idea you have!" Flesh-eating monsters, a serial killer, an asylum, a mad scientist, ghosts, Nazis, AND aliens? Oy. Too bad, too, because Jessica Lange is awesome.
5. The Rest is Illusion is still up for free download on GoodReads until this coming Thursday. It was also chosen as November's Book of the Month on the MM Romance Group's page.
6. Anyone who missed my interview on Stonewall Live last weekend you can catch it HERE. A star is born!! ;-)
7. Jeff Buckley was born on this day in 1966. A beautiful and talented man gone too soon.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
The List: What I Did At GRL
2. Tj Klune, Medicine Woman: How's your face today?
Me: Huh?
Tj: Your Jiminy Crickets or whatever it's called.
Me: My trigemenal Neuralgia?
Tj: Yeah. I can't pronounce that. For now on it shall be known as hurt face.
I adore him.
3. Damon Suede had a better ass than any of the strippers on stage at that cowboy stripper thing.
4. I'm never flying stateside again. What a horror. That is all.
5. Everyone was awesomely helpful with my cane and vertigo and all-out clumsiness. I loved how Teej held onto my belt loop when we walked. He made me feel so secure. Don't let his sarcasm fool you. He's extremely romantic.
6. The casbah? Oh, we fuckin' rocked that shit.
7. I now know how Brangelina must feel. Anyone get a photo of us kissing? The Klarvin must have one.
8. If there is a zombie apocalypse my friend Lanny will be the person I will be running to for protection. Bitch is like a tiny Micchone!
9. There we are, being all freaking adorable...
When, suddenly, Teej finds Jesus.
10. I don't care what anyone says, the power button on a cell phone isn't for anything but aesthetics. Isn't that right, Teej?
11. Teej and I both need classes on how to use a pen. We spent 5 minutes at the signing table trying to open a ball point...and then we realized it had a lid.
12. I drank...I drank a whole lot. And met some wonderful folk, like Chris below.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
The List: Cloud Atlas, Mumford, & Addams Family's Oscar Injustice
1. I haven't been to a movie theater since 03 when I saw Return of the King. I have always said that the only way I'd ever go to one again was if they made The Hobbit. Then Cloud Atlas comes along. Will this be the film that gets me back in a movie theater for the first time since Return of the King in 03? Or should I let that honor go to The Hobbit for a full circle effect? Hmmmm. I DO like full circles.
2. I may be the only person alive who is not completely in love with the new Mumford & Sons album, Babel. May yet grow on me. The truth is, the albums that take their time to grow on me often turn out to be favorites. My issue with the album is, it feels like more of the same. Still, it's 20 times better than anything being played on the radio these days.
3. Don't you hate it when films come out that resemble ideas you came up with years ago? This has happened to me twice, once with the John Cusack thriller Identity (my version of the same idea was set on a train and called Train Of Thought) and now more recently with Looper. I still have the outlines to prove it. Sigh. If only I had connections. I might be rich.
4. If the gays truly ran Hollywood Addams Family Values would have swept the Oscars in 93.
5. I received the stupendously awesome sauce news early this week that Harmony Ink Press has accepted my spec fic epic The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men for publication. This is the best news since the doctors told me I was gonna live after brain surgery!
6. I received a call this week from some place whose recorded message lady claimed I had filled out a survey and I was the recipient of a 7-night Caribbean cruise. I didn't trust this strangely cheerful lady, so I turned the cruise down. How do I know she doesn't want to enslave me or turn me into a sex slave? ...I have trust issues.
8. I'm checking on rights and such and if everything turns out right I plan on uploading my first book The Rest Is Illusion to Good Reads for anyone to read FOR FREE. Why for free you ask? Two reasons: 1) I look at it as a good investment. If I can get people to read that maybe they'll be interested in my other stuff; 2) I don't want to be sued by the original publisher for using their cover image, etc. and not paying them even though they are now no longer in business. I'll keep you posted.
9. Has anyone seen #7? It was a political observation but got scared of being yelled at.
2. I may be the only person alive who is not completely in love with the new Mumford & Sons album, Babel. May yet grow on me. The truth is, the albums that take their time to grow on me often turn out to be favorites. My issue with the album is, it feels like more of the same. Still, it's 20 times better than anything being played on the radio these days.
3. Don't you hate it when films come out that resemble ideas you came up with years ago? This has happened to me twice, once with the John Cusack thriller Identity (my version of the same idea was set on a train and called Train Of Thought) and now more recently with Looper. I still have the outlines to prove it. Sigh. If only I had connections. I might be rich.
4. If the gays truly ran Hollywood Addams Family Values would have swept the Oscars in 93.
5. I received the stupendously awesome sauce news early this week that Harmony Ink Press has accepted my spec fic epic The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men for publication. This is the best news since the doctors told me I was gonna live after brain surgery!
6. I received a call this week from some place whose recorded message lady claimed I had filled out a survey and I was the recipient of a 7-night Caribbean cruise. I didn't trust this strangely cheerful lady, so I turned the cruise down. How do I know she doesn't want to enslave me or turn me into a sex slave? ...I have trust issues.
8. I'm checking on rights and such and if everything turns out right I plan on uploading my first book The Rest Is Illusion to Good Reads for anyone to read FOR FREE. Why for free you ask? Two reasons: 1) I look at it as a good investment. If I can get people to read that maybe they'll be interested in my other stuff; 2) I don't want to be sued by the original publisher for using their cover image, etc. and not paying them even though they are now no longer in business. I'll keep you posted.
9. Has anyone seen #7? It was a political observation but got scared of being yelled at.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
The List: Epics, 1975, & Penile Silicone Injections
1. Simple Men is now available in Spanish and Italian. I'd read them, but I'm not a very... cunning linguist. Yeah. I know. That joke doesn't really work in that instance. STOP JUDGING ME!!
2. The film I have the LEAST amount of interest in seeing this year: LINCOLN. I haven't liked a Spielberg film since A.I. There was a time when I looked forward to everything he made. Oh, Steven. Why hast we grown apart so?
3. This week's great publicity idea: get each of my artist friends - HVH, Patrick Fillion, Absolutbleu, Charlie Esquiaqui, Gus, etc. - to illustrate a scene from one of my books or stories of their choosing. I'll provide the book. I'm not certain what I'll do with the pieces yet - an art show maybe? Right now I'm just loving the idea.
4. I reached 1975 friends on Facebook last week. That's my birthyear!
5. My older comic book about a female pirate, "The Blackbeard Legacy", was re-released on Amazon. Get you some on Kindle, matey! HERE
6. Did everyone read my interview of EPIC PROPORTIONS over at The Inspiration Forum? No? Well, HERE you go.
7. Walked into Rue 21 last Thursday whilst out shopping with my sister and immediately felt old and uncool. So I went to the GAP and bought a couple of cardigans.
8. Penile silicone injections. This is grotesque and dangerous, but fascinating. Honestly, I'd like to touch it. I'm definitely going to base a character on a guy like this and I have just the outline for him. You can watch the video: HERE
2. The film I have the LEAST amount of interest in seeing this year: LINCOLN. I haven't liked a Spielberg film since A.I. There was a time when I looked forward to everything he made. Oh, Steven. Why hast we grown apart so?
3. This week's great publicity idea: get each of my artist friends - HVH, Patrick Fillion, Absolutbleu, Charlie Esquiaqui, Gus, etc. - to illustrate a scene from one of my books or stories of their choosing. I'll provide the book. I'm not certain what I'll do with the pieces yet - an art show maybe? Right now I'm just loving the idea.
4. I reached 1975 friends on Facebook last week. That's my birthyear!
5. My older comic book about a female pirate, "The Blackbeard Legacy", was re-released on Amazon. Get you some on Kindle, matey! HERE
6. Did everyone read my interview of EPIC PROPORTIONS over at The Inspiration Forum? No? Well, HERE you go.
7. Walked into Rue 21 last Thursday whilst out shopping with my sister and immediately felt old and uncool. So I went to the GAP and bought a couple of cardigans.
8. Penile silicone injections. This is grotesque and dangerous, but fascinating. Honestly, I'd like to touch it. I'm definitely going to base a character on a guy like this and I have just the outline for him. You can watch the video: HERE
Sunday, September 2, 2012
The List: Italian Arvinio, HuffPo Arvin, & Arvin Around the World
1. The Italian language version of my book Galley Proof - titled Solo una bozza - was released this week, and next moth the Spanish version of Simple Men is released. My plan for world literary domination has begun. Release the hounds!!!
2. Screenwriter Michael Tennant and myself are on the prowl for producers/directors for the adaptation of my first novel The Rest Is Illusion. We have four directors interested and/or looking over the project as I type this. I am not above whorring myself out to get this thing produced.
3. The Oscars should be decided on like the Olympics. I for one would love to see Ryan Gosling wrestle Michael Fassbender for Best Actor...naked.
4. I have decided how exactly I want to tell my surreal hospital stay - the one that happened to me two years ago when I was deathy ill, in and out of a coma, with pneumonia. I'm going to write a book in either journal form or as a series of letters to some fictional character and title it The Pneumonia Memoirs. If it doesn't win the Pulitzer...well, I don't know what.
5. I was mentioned in the Huffington Post not once, but twice last week. Awesome, huh? My stock is rising, Number One. Soon I shall be eating at the finest restaurants in Madison, Indiana. No more McDonald's for me. I'm moving up to Hinkle's Hamburgers!
6. I've decided my new pre-New Years goal to take up travel writing doesn't go far enough. Instead, I want to start a travel company that caters to adventurous folk like myself who may have some physical issues but still have the NEED to see the world. I'm also going to contact the Travel Channel SOMEHOW and propose a program - maybe have a camera follow me around and document my travel joys and foibles. Of course I'll have a wacky gal pal for comic relief. It'll be like the Amazing Race...with Patsy & Edina. Anyone out there have connections at Travel Channel?
7. Bodybuilders should hire themselves out as stress relievers. Seriously. Who needs a stress ball when one loud smack on a bodybuilder's big bare ass is so much more satisfying. Just sayin'. They like it. They're all bottoms anyway. Am I right? Am I right? Yeah. You know I am. Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle yeah.
8. By the time Future Eric posts this blog piece on Sunday morning Past Eric will have finished the first draft of his epic speculative fiction piece Terms We Have For Dreaming, which he has been working on for the past 8 months. Present Eric is most excited about this. Now it us up to Far Future Eric to edit and clean this work up and make it sparkle and sing. All the other Erics will stand back in judgement if Far Future Eric should fail. They will laugh at him.
9. Reading Michael Flynn's Eifelheim, or trying to. Was distracted when I saw a blurb by sci-fi writer and gay hater Orson Scott Card on the back. Well, at least it was the back. I am firmly against damaging books but I will not have that man's name in my collection... so I cut the bottom half of the back cover off and threw it away. Silly? Perhaps. Petty? Not really, asshole. Satisfying? Immensely. I sure showed him!
10. This may come as a disappointment to some, but I am giving serious thought to shutting down my website Daventry Blue. Originally that site was meant to be for my writing, but somewhere along the way it became a dumping ground for EVERYTHING that caught my fancy, including hot sexy mens. And while I do enjoy hot sexy mens, you can find the same photos on any Tumblr site on the interweb. So, just fair warning. One day soon Daventry Blue may be no more.
2. Screenwriter Michael Tennant and myself are on the prowl for producers/directors for the adaptation of my first novel The Rest Is Illusion. We have four directors interested and/or looking over the project as I type this. I am not above whorring myself out to get this thing produced.
3. The Oscars should be decided on like the Olympics. I for one would love to see Ryan Gosling wrestle Michael Fassbender for Best Actor...naked.
4. I have decided how exactly I want to tell my surreal hospital stay - the one that happened to me two years ago when I was deathy ill, in and out of a coma, with pneumonia. I'm going to write a book in either journal form or as a series of letters to some fictional character and title it The Pneumonia Memoirs. If it doesn't win the Pulitzer...well, I don't know what.
5. I was mentioned in the Huffington Post not once, but twice last week. Awesome, huh? My stock is rising, Number One. Soon I shall be eating at the finest restaurants in Madison, Indiana. No more McDonald's for me. I'm moving up to Hinkle's Hamburgers!
6. I've decided my new pre-New Years goal to take up travel writing doesn't go far enough. Instead, I want to start a travel company that caters to adventurous folk like myself who may have some physical issues but still have the NEED to see the world. I'm also going to contact the Travel Channel SOMEHOW and propose a program - maybe have a camera follow me around and document my travel joys and foibles. Of course I'll have a wacky gal pal for comic relief. It'll be like the Amazing Race...with Patsy & Edina. Anyone out there have connections at Travel Channel?
7. Bodybuilders should hire themselves out as stress relievers. Seriously. Who needs a stress ball when one loud smack on a bodybuilder's big bare ass is so much more satisfying. Just sayin'. They like it. They're all bottoms anyway. Am I right? Am I right? Yeah. You know I am. Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle yeah.
8. By the time Future Eric posts this blog piece on Sunday morning Past Eric will have finished the first draft of his epic speculative fiction piece Terms We Have For Dreaming, which he has been working on for the past 8 months. Present Eric is most excited about this. Now it us up to Far Future Eric to edit and clean this work up and make it sparkle and sing. All the other Erics will stand back in judgement if Far Future Eric should fail. They will laugh at him.
9. Reading Michael Flynn's Eifelheim, or trying to. Was distracted when I saw a blurb by sci-fi writer and gay hater Orson Scott Card on the back. Well, at least it was the back. I am firmly against damaging books but I will not have that man's name in my collection... so I cut the bottom half of the back cover off and threw it away. Silly? Perhaps. Petty? Not really, asshole. Satisfying? Immensely. I sure showed him!
10. This may come as a disappointment to some, but I am giving serious thought to shutting down my website Daventry Blue. Originally that site was meant to be for my writing, but somewhere along the way it became a dumping ground for EVERYTHING that caught my fancy, including hot sexy mens. And while I do enjoy hot sexy mens, you can find the same photos on any Tumblr site on the interweb. So, just fair warning. One day soon Daventry Blue may be no more.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
The List: Munsters, Hobbits, & Olympic Sexiness
1. So, the Munsters "re-imagining," 1313 Mockingbird Lane, looks interesting. Aside from darker clothing, the cast doesn't look very monster-like (Herman is no Frankenstein), but I hear they will definitely act like monsters, complete with cannibalistic dining habits. Portia De Rossi looks great as Lily Munster. The comedic aspect of the series is supposedly more Six Feet Under than original Munsters slapstick, and I think that will fit right in with today's cynical climate. The show's creator was also behind Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies (love!).
2. The Olympics have been great, despite a "meh" opening ceremony. Maybe the sexiest games I've ever seen. I love how the divers' bikinis seem to get tinier with every games. And watching Oscar Pistorius was quite inspirational. Other highlights: Danell Leyva...and his butt.
3. Water polo is my new favorite sport. So deliciously grabby! I'm just not certain I'd want to play it. I want to keep my wiener and did I mention how grabby the sport is? Which brings me to a small complaint: more underwater camera action please. How are we supposed to understand a sport if we don't see every...single...angle?
4. Peter Jackson has announced that The Hobbit will indeed be a trilogy. I'm wondering if this means he will incorporate more of the tales from The Silmarillion.
5. I'm bringing me mom with me to the GRL Retreat in October in New Mexico. She's always wanted to go to Albuquerque and this way I don't have to stay in the haunted hotel room by myself. I just need to find a way to explain the cowboy stripper bar to her...and why I WILL NOT take her, no matter how much she begs.
6. Inspired by the Olympics, I have been thinking of starting a comedy set in Ancient Greece in the spirit of my Jasper Lane books. The story would focus on some randy, naughty, naked athletes in the games and a few of their fans. Archaeologists over the years have found graffiti on walls where the athletes prepared before the games that were the "Jonny is a whore" of their day. Cattiness never dies apparently, and I think that would lend itself well to my type of satire. And just think of the fun I could have with names. Oh, those wacky Greeks!
7. At the beginning of the year, as some of you may know, I set a few goals for myself and they have all been accomplished to some extent. I have a new living situation, I got some help for my foot, my epic manuscript was edited, and I have been working very hard on working out and getting my sexy on. So, now I am making three goals for 2013: I want to start a new career as a travel writer; I want to go to England/the British Isles; and I would like to get to Burning Man dressed as Brandon Flowers from The Killers' "Spaceman" video (Thanks, Stacey!). Next year is all about travel. Life is short. See as much of it as you can.
8. Mark your calendars! November 8th I will be interviewed on StonewallLive Blog Radio. I'll give you more info once I have it. I'm gonna be a star, Momma!! A star!!
2. The Olympics have been great, despite a "meh" opening ceremony. Maybe the sexiest games I've ever seen. I love how the divers' bikinis seem to get tinier with every games. And watching Oscar Pistorius was quite inspirational. Other highlights: Danell Leyva...and his butt.
3. Water polo is my new favorite sport. So deliciously grabby! I'm just not certain I'd want to play it. I want to keep my wiener and did I mention how grabby the sport is? Which brings me to a small complaint: more underwater camera action please. How are we supposed to understand a sport if we don't see every...single...angle?
4. Peter Jackson has announced that The Hobbit will indeed be a trilogy. I'm wondering if this means he will incorporate more of the tales from The Silmarillion.
5. I'm bringing me mom with me to the GRL Retreat in October in New Mexico. She's always wanted to go to Albuquerque and this way I don't have to stay in the haunted hotel room by myself. I just need to find a way to explain the cowboy stripper bar to her...and why I WILL NOT take her, no matter how much she begs.
6. Inspired by the Olympics, I have been thinking of starting a comedy set in Ancient Greece in the spirit of my Jasper Lane books. The story would focus on some randy, naughty, naked athletes in the games and a few of their fans. Archaeologists over the years have found graffiti on walls where the athletes prepared before the games that were the "Jonny is a whore" of their day. Cattiness never dies apparently, and I think that would lend itself well to my type of satire. And just think of the fun I could have with names. Oh, those wacky Greeks!
7. At the beginning of the year, as some of you may know, I set a few goals for myself and they have all been accomplished to some extent. I have a new living situation, I got some help for my foot, my epic manuscript was edited, and I have been working very hard on working out and getting my sexy on. So, now I am making three goals for 2013: I want to start a new career as a travel writer; I want to go to England/the British Isles; and I would like to get to Burning Man dressed as Brandon Flowers from The Killers' "Spaceman" video (Thanks, Stacey!). Next year is all about travel. Life is short. See as much of it as you can.
8. Mark your calendars! November 8th I will be interviewed on StonewallLive Blog Radio. I'll give you more info once I have it. I'm gonna be a star, Momma!! A star!!
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The List
1. Received the final edits and galley for SuburbaNights, the third book in my Jasper Lane series from Dreamspinner Press. It will soon be ready for release on July 11th. Woot!
2. My new erotic - and by "erotic" I mean "absolutely filth" - short story, "Roids, Rumps, & Revenge", will soon be released by Seventh Window with a cover by the ever dependable Absolutbleu.
3. My friend and fellow sexy writer Jim Provenzano won a Lambda Literary Award for his lovely romance Every Time I Think of You. I'm only slightly jealous, because he's such a nice guy.
4. Charlie David (Dante's Cove), who recorded my book Simple Men to audio book, is in the midst of recording another: Woke Up in a Strange Place! I'll keep you all informed as far as the release date.
5. Charlie Esquiaqui is taking on the cover duties for SuburbaNights. Like HVH before him, I think he really gets the mood of the books.
6. My short horror tale, "Miss Locks", was released this week by Untreed Reads. I really enjoy writing horror, so I think you might be seeing more from me.
7. Twin Peaks. Lost. Battlestar Galactica. What do these have in common? I was obsessed with all of them. Still am. Add another TV series to that list: Game of Thrones. Wow.
2. My new erotic - and by "erotic" I mean "absolutely filth" - short story, "Roids, Rumps, & Revenge", will soon be released by Seventh Window with a cover by the ever dependable Absolutbleu.
3. My friend and fellow sexy writer Jim Provenzano won a Lambda Literary Award for his lovely romance Every Time I Think of You. I'm only slightly jealous, because he's such a nice guy.
4. Charlie David (Dante's Cove), who recorded my book Simple Men to audio book, is in the midst of recording another: Woke Up in a Strange Place! I'll keep you all informed as far as the release date.
5. Charlie Esquiaqui is taking on the cover duties for SuburbaNights. Like HVH before him, I think he really gets the mood of the books.
6. My short horror tale, "Miss Locks", was released this week by Untreed Reads. I really enjoy writing horror, so I think you might be seeing more from me.
7. Twin Peaks. Lost. Battlestar Galactica. What do these have in common? I was obsessed with all of them. Still am. Add another TV series to that list: Game of Thrones. Wow.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The List
1. Received some new sketches of my comic book 'Bubbles n Gordy' which I'm doing for Class Comics. Absolutbleu lives in my head. He's an amazing artist. This is going to be one filthy comic. I feel dirty just talking about it. I imagine it will be released sometime in 2013.
2. Exciting news on the library front: My short story She's Come Undone from Untreed Reads has been bought by at least two libraries - one in Pasadena, one in Ontario - for their digital shelves.
3. Why, oh why, are they remaking Soapdish?!
4. Word is, two of my favorite TV shows, Cougartown and Community, are having rough times. Cougartown has switched networks and next season will be airing on TBS, and Community - from what I hear - will have a final, shortened season next year on NBC.
5. My laptop finally bit the dust. Thankfully I didn't lose anything important...other than files and files of sexy nekkid mens and their big bootays.
6. I have a bit of a dilemma concerning my Jasper Lane books. As you may or may not know, the third in the series, SuburbaNights, is set for release on July 11th from Dreamspinner Press. I'm thinking it might be the last in that particular series. The reason: the television show Suburgatory. I know "I was here first", as they say, but I can't help feeling a bit redundant now.
2. Exciting news on the library front: My short story She's Come Undone from Untreed Reads has been bought by at least two libraries - one in Pasadena, one in Ontario - for their digital shelves.
3. Why, oh why, are they remaking Soapdish?!
4. Word is, two of my favorite TV shows, Cougartown and Community, are having rough times. Cougartown has switched networks and next season will be airing on TBS, and Community - from what I hear - will have a final, shortened season next year on NBC.
5. My laptop finally bit the dust. Thankfully I didn't lose anything important...other than files and files of sexy nekkid mens and their big bootays.
6. I have a bit of a dilemma concerning my Jasper Lane books. As you may or may not know, the third in the series, SuburbaNights, is set for release on July 11th from Dreamspinner Press. I'm thinking it might be the last in that particular series. The reason: the television show Suburgatory. I know "I was here first", as they say, but I can't help feeling a bit redundant now.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
The List
1. Ron Howard is set to direct an adaptation of My Stroke of Insight. Jill Bolte Taylor's fascinating and uplifting account of her stroke and recovery from her perspective as a neurologist. Jodie Foster has been named as being interested in the role. If you haven't seen her TED speech, I highly recommend it. Extremely powerful and moving.
2. Woke Up in a Strange Place won the Best Speculative Fiction award at the TLA Gaybies last week. Woot! Thank you, everyone who voted! To quote Ruth Gordon, I can't tell ya how encouraging a thing like this is.
3. Galley Proof has gone into the process of being translated into Italian. With Simple Men soon to come out in Spanish, I'm sure to find me a hot sexy European boyfriend in no time! Spicey!
4. American Horror Story announced that season 2 will be set at a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. While this is a bit predictable, I'll still be watching. I'm sure it will surprise me in other ways. Word is, it's a-gonna be kiiiinky.
5. I helped judge cutie-pie Tj Klune's Bad Poetry contest in promotion of his new book, Who We Are. You can hear the top three - er, bottom three? - at Tj's site HERE.
6. I don't care much for the B or Apartment C, but James Van Der Beek is great. Give him a spin-off.
7. My short story She's Come Undone - about a harassed mother of a special needs child - is getting wonderful reviews, especially from mothers. It's now available on iBookstore.
8. Review line of the Week: From Fangtasia on Goodreads regarding Woke Up in a Strange Place: ..."a necessary read for anyone entertaining existential questions." Awesome.
2. Woke Up in a Strange Place won the Best Speculative Fiction award at the TLA Gaybies last week. Woot! Thank you, everyone who voted! To quote Ruth Gordon, I can't tell ya how encouraging a thing like this is.
3. Galley Proof has gone into the process of being translated into Italian. With Simple Men soon to come out in Spanish, I'm sure to find me a hot sexy European boyfriend in no time! Spicey!
4. American Horror Story announced that season 2 will be set at a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. While this is a bit predictable, I'll still be watching. I'm sure it will surprise me in other ways. Word is, it's a-gonna be kiiiinky.
5. I helped judge cutie-pie Tj Klune's Bad Poetry contest in promotion of his new book, Who We Are. You can hear the top three - er, bottom three? - at Tj's site HERE.
6. I don't care much for the B or Apartment C, but James Van Der Beek is great. Give him a spin-off.
7. My short story She's Come Undone - about a harassed mother of a special needs child - is getting wonderful reviews, especially from mothers. It's now available on iBookstore.
8. Review line of the Week: From Fangtasia on Goodreads regarding Woke Up in a Strange Place: ..."a necessary read for anyone entertaining existential questions." Awesome.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The List
1. Foot Note: Got me a new brace. It's more comfortable than the last, and not as gaudy. Still hoping for surgery, though. Gotta gotta cut loose!!
2. New favorite shopping site: Fab.com. I can't afford most of the things on the site, but it's all very cool. A Union Jack sofa chair?? Yes, please!
3. BBC America has been running the entire four seasons of Battlestar Galactica for the past year. Every Saturday it has become a tradition for me to watch the series about ancient aliens. Sadly, it is over and I'm nearly as devastated this time as I was when the show actually ended back in 09. What the hell am I s'posed to watch tonight?
4. The painter Thomas Kinkade died last week. I was never a fan of his work (it looked too manufactured to me), but I respected the man's marketing skills.
5. Every evening over on my Daventry Blue site I list "5 Songs Before..." These are chosen by my music library, not me. The feature is proving more popular than the nekkid mens I post. That surprises me.
6. I know Zooey Deschanel is the star and the reason behind the FOX TV show The New Girl, but I'm finding myself much more entertained by the three male roommates.
7. I found out that the Hotel Andaluz, where I will be staying for the GRL convention in October, is freaking haunted! Like really, REALLY haunted! Is ghosties gonna get me?!
2. New favorite shopping site: Fab.com. I can't afford most of the things on the site, but it's all very cool. A Union Jack sofa chair?? Yes, please!
3. BBC America has been running the entire four seasons of Battlestar Galactica for the past year. Every Saturday it has become a tradition for me to watch the series about ancient aliens. Sadly, it is over and I'm nearly as devastated this time as I was when the show actually ended back in 09. What the hell am I s'posed to watch tonight?
4. The painter Thomas Kinkade died last week. I was never a fan of his work (it looked too manufactured to me), but I respected the man's marketing skills.
5. Every evening over on my Daventry Blue site I list "5 Songs Before..." These are chosen by my music library, not me. The feature is proving more popular than the nekkid mens I post. That surprises me.
6. I know Zooey Deschanel is the star and the reason behind the FOX TV show The New Girl, but I'm finding myself much more entertained by the three male roommates.
7. I found out that the Hotel Andaluz, where I will be staying for the GRL convention in October, is freaking haunted! Like really, REALLY haunted! Is ghosties gonna get me?!
Monday, April 2, 2012
The List
1. I've settled on my next writing project: a spec fic epic titled Terms We Have For Dreaming. I've been waiting to write this for a while. I needed to be in the right place. More info later.
2. My short story She's Come Undone is now available through Untreed Reads. You can get it on Amazon, etc.
3. I booked me a fancy nancy hotel room for the GRL convention in New Mexico this October. Fancy. Nancy.
4. Madonna's newest collection MDNA is a lot of fun. I've been listening to it non-stop the last few days. In fact, I'm listening to it right now. It's not Ray of Light, but it's much better than Hard Candy.
5. Grimm is struggling for me. I think it comes down to the main character's partner and also his wife. I'm just not into them.
6. Ima be a judge for fellow writer Tj Klune's upcoming Bad Poetry Extravaganza. More info HERE. Win some stuff!
7. While I loved the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, I have to say the prequels have very little interest for me. I would be much more interested in a series that takes place the same time as BSG, but focuses on a renegade band of survivors left behind on Caprica after the Cylons chase the fleet across the stars. Now THERE'S a series.
2. My short story She's Come Undone is now available through Untreed Reads. You can get it on Amazon, etc.
3. I booked me a fancy nancy hotel room for the GRL convention in New Mexico this October. Fancy. Nancy.
4. Madonna's newest collection MDNA is a lot of fun. I've been listening to it non-stop the last few days. In fact, I'm listening to it right now. It's not Ray of Light, but it's much better than Hard Candy.
5. Grimm is struggling for me. I think it comes down to the main character's partner and also his wife. I'm just not into them.
6. Ima be a judge for fellow writer Tj Klune's upcoming Bad Poetry Extravaganza. More info HERE. Win some stuff!
7. While I loved the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, I have to say the prequels have very little interest for me. I would be much more interested in a series that takes place the same time as BSG, but focuses on a renegade band of survivors left behind on Caprica after the Cylons chase the fleet across the stars. Now THERE'S a series.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The List
1. Am I the only gay man not watching GCB? I love Annie Potts, but....
2. Woke Up in a Strange Place was nominated for a Gaybie for Best Speculative Fiction! You can vote HERE as many times as your lil' heart desires before March 31st. Fly, my minions! FLY!
3. This week I saw the proof for my new short story "She's Come Undone." It should be out from Untreed Reads very soon now.
4. SPOILER!! Walking Dead: Fantastic season finale, and that character reveal at the end!! Wow.
5. The release date for the third book in my Jasper Lane series, SuburbaNights, has been confirmed as July 11th. Prime summer reading weather!
6. I was NOT nominated for a Lammy yesterday! Then I emptied my liquor cabinet.
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