Help Rocky Wood — visit the Overlook Connection’s rare Stephen King sale.

Stephen King scholar (and current Horror Writer Association president) Rocky Wood -- who I've corresponded with a few times over the years and finally met face to face at the Stoker Weekend last month -- is selling off items from his substantial King collection to help him pay for medical expenses associated with the onset of Lou Gehrig's Disease.  Rocky's a phenomenally nice man and well-deserving of your support.  If your'e a King fan, help him out by visiting the Overlook Connection -- a great horror/King collector bookstore -- and picking up an item from the list.  Some unexpected rare…

More kindle fetishism posted to my flickr page. #iphoneography #ebook

I've continued to play with photos of my Amazon Kindle over the 4th of July weekend. There's 16 shots up right now; I'm aiming for about twenty, maybe twenty-five, or so.  I'm no photographer, but it's fun to learn these techniques by messing around.  Drop by the set on my flickr account to see them all, and please let me know what you think!  

“Scream in Hell” — a dark painting by @JustAfterSunset

Writer/artist Stephanie Wytovich was one of my students at SHU.  She gave me this great weird painting as a parting gift shortly before she received her BA degree.  She didn't tell me its title, if it has one.  So I'm calling it "Scream in Hell"...which is probably what writing that final paper for my Lit Crit course was like.... But seriously, she's quite a talent, and really knows her stuff.  So watch out for Wyto!  She's already begun publishing her dark poetry and short fiction here and there (see links on her blog), and she's currently enrolled in our MFA…