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Don’t make this recipe on purpose, that is, don’t fry bacon just so you can have wilted bacon salad. This is a leftover recipe, a dish designed to squeeze the very last possible amount of bacony goodness out of a pan of bacon. Restaurants present this dish as though it were something sophisticated. Nope. It’s […]

Working on Alien Blue, I’m at a spot where the main character has dug himself a hole. He’s starting to come out of it–but manages to screw things up again (big surprise), driving another character to a desperate action. I was trying to find a song to put me into his frame of mind: This

I’m trying to get ready to submit Alien Blue to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. Submissions are from February 2-8, which means I’m probably not going to have time to have people read the whole thing before I submit, because I’m still working on it. (I think I’m through the worst of it, although

We had a couple of people over for the 2nd annual Geek Christmas. It went very well; we played Warhammer and stuffed ourselves. Thanks to Rob and Sheena for coming over and to Lee for magnificent grilling 🙂 Merry Christmas!

I was going to put this on Cornish game hens, but I couldn’t find any in bulk, so it ended up on pork loin. I received about a cup and a half of raspberry sauce in trade for a big container of weird soup, so I’m guesstimating on the amounts there. I had too much

by Laura Reeve. In a way, Laura Reeve is the reason I got involved with Pikes Peak Writers just over a year ago. I was talking to a friend of mine, and she said a friend of hers was always trying to get her husband to go to this writing group and a conference that

Becky over at Beckland needs to start writing for Hallmark: When you’re sad — I will jump on the person who made you sad like a spider monkey jacked up on Mountain Dew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When you’re blue — I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you. When you smile — I will know you are

So I’m working on edits on Alien Blue and I have to totally rewrite a scene because I’d condensed sixteen years into seven (e.g., one of the characters went from thirteen to sixteen) and because it just, in general, sucked. I’m supposed to be done with major rewrites, damn it! There must be some way

Chili for Lee. 2 T dried chili pepper (not chili powder)1 T cumin1 1/2 lbs chorizo1/2 lb summer sausage, cubed1 T olive oil4 cloves garlic, minced2 Anaheim peppers, seeds removed, diced4 chipotle chilis in adobo, seeds removed, minced1 T salt2 15 oz cans pinto beans4 15 oz cans tomatoes (2 before the cooking for a

Note to self: Check this out sometime; it looks like pure MADNESS. Repo! The Genetic Opera stars Anthony Steward Head, Paris Hilton, Terrance Zdunich: The premise: in the not-too-distant future, an epidemic of organ failure prompts the rise of GeneCo, which both provides replacement organs and finances the loans to pay for them. Miss a