HIGHWAY 62

For the record, that title is taken from a Sisters of Mercy bootleg recorded at a show in 1985. I'll probably have something to say about that year, as it's the year I graduated high school and entered college and a bigger world but still as a little boy, just walking...

So now that I've given away the secret of writing a novel, let's talk about what I didn't give away.

But first, my steps to writing a novel. They're very simple steps. Honest. Anyone can do them.

1) Ruminate on the idea and plot for a couple-three months. Jot out notes.

2...

Okay, let's take come care with the personal brand this time. 

I love horror. I love all things horror. Let me reinforce your love of horror.

There. All good? Put the hatchet down. Careful with that axe, Eugene.

One of the things I've found with all the books that I've wr...

Yeah, this thing is still on. Just been busy.

Finished the first draft of MY DROWNING CHORUS, that being the second in the continuing series of HAZELAND books, following librarian and forger Cait MacReady through the LA of the recent past haunted by things with and with...

So this here's a piece of fiction that I wrote for one of those anthology calls. Yeah, it didn't get accepted. You're as shocked as I am.

It's a shorter bit of a much longer work called CINDY SAYS, but that title can still stick here. Yes, it's part of HAZELAND/QUEEN OF...

Orinda CA, 2015. I was going to run with a photo of the Orinda theatre neon, but I figured that was too easy.

From 1981. Taken on my mom's Pentax SLR (which I couldn't use any more even if I still had it because I can't focus a split-ring due to my vision -- that or I'd need coke-bottle-bottom glasses to do so.)

I have the film negatives still. I think. But no prints, so this i...

Film shot, taken in the kitchen of my old home in San Diego, probably 1996.