Kindle Experiments

I've begun another series of weird photos -- "Kindle Experiments" -- over on my flickr gallery. Just having fun messing around with shots of my amazon kindle. Let me know what you think. Plans are afoot with publishers of my backlist to produce ebook versions of my novels and collections in the year to come. Keep an eye on my Amazon profile if you're looking for something new for your kindle, nook, kanookiedindle, et cetera.

Experimental Photography of the @amazon #Kindle

Over on my flickr gallery, I've started posting a new series of experimental photos with my amazon kindle e-book reader.  Above is a treatment of the Emily Dickinson screensaver... will be posting more directly on flickr. And here's a really interesting discussion by Jason Gignac, who points out some problems inherent to the Dickinson portrait in itself.

Instigation Parody at the Stoker Award Banquet

At the recent Bram Stoker Awards ceremony in New York, the banquet's emcee, author Jeff Strand, plotted the following little skit which we delivered to everyone's surprise, shortly before he introduced the presenters of the award for Outstanding Achievement in Long Fiction. I was honored to be a part of the joke in this parody of the goreletter's Instigation column, which features "twisted prompts for sicko writers." Here's the script from our skit. Although I wrote the prompts below, the idea was all Jeff's and he did a fantastic job all night long. Be sure to drop by his website…