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We’re moving to Arizona! Wait…where am I going to get $2 million to buy the Cave House? Eh. We’ll figure it out…

I’m not done yet – I’m on the Epilogue (which is, however, bigger than most, due to the nature of the story). But I woke up this morning and said, “You know, I think I miiiiight be able to write a query letter today.” A normally intimidating thought. Let’s not talk about synopses, shall we?

Two entirely different impulses. Spanish-style guitar and sad folk vocals (Jose Gonzales, Hints and, incredibly, Love Will Tear Us Apart). Post-punk love child of Hole and Queens of the Stone Age (Spinnerette, Ghetto Love, led by the former frontbitch of The Distillers).

After making the Lee Chili of Doom based on a co-worker’s recipe, I applied the same technique to red (spaghetti) sauce for a batch of lasagna. Mwah! My best red sauce yet. For the laziest lasagna method: Day 1: Make red sauce.Day 2: Assemble, bake, and serve lasagna. Red Sauce:Makes about 8 lb. sauce; you’ll

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