Happy New Year, my psychos. I’ve noticed a lot of people are doing “The Year in Writing” recaps on their blogs, and while I’m not usually prone to self-reflection, I decided to participate. Just this once, you understand. Okay. Here we go: It was a good year for my writing. I had a lot of
That’s a good question. Really it is. Especially because the Holiday Hop is now over, as is Christmas, and I’ve promised to send one lucky snowman-licker a prize. And by the way, you are all extraordinarily nasty individuals, with all your Frosty fetishes. I’d say about 90% of you, if given the chance, would douse
We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for this late-breaking news: The Arcane Anthology is now available! You can purchase a copy either in print or ebook format, and within the cover of this long-awaited beauty, you’ll find my short story “Destination Unknown.” If that’s not enough awesome for ya, you should note that I’m sharing
Did you know it’s December!? I just tossed out my Jack-O-Lantern like two days ago. And wasn’t Thanksgiving yesterday? I swear I remember eating turkey last night. Or hunting turkey. Or pretending to be a turkey. And now Santa is all up in my grill demanding to be acknowledged. Well you know what? I ain’t
UPDATE: I am proud to announce that my debut novel, Soundtrack to the End of the World, is officially available! Available Now! Bad Moon Books: Signed Limited Hardcover Edition Bad Moon Books: Trade Paperback Edition Amazon: Trade Paperback “An impressive debut. Rapino’s voice and wit turn this trippy, blood-soaked, body-swapper into a screaming good time.” –Michael Louis Calvillo,
Sandy Musick (winner of the Halloween Mystery Bag) was kind enough to send along some photos of her opening the package. I thought it’d be nice to let everyone see what the contents of the mystery bag were, partly because half the fun of a surprise is discovering what it is, and partly because I
The tension in the room is palpable. Well, not really. For one thing, I’m the only one here. For another, I just woke up an hour ago, and it takes me at least 3 hours before I’m able to function at normal levels of emotion. But still. Palpable. Because I like that word. This was
The big day has finally arrived, and as usual, I wish I could turn back the clock so it could be October 1st again. I love Halloween of course, but now that it’s here, I know it’ll be over all too soon. I spent last night watching the Halloween specials that have become part of
There you have it. The Halloween Mystery Bag in all its glory. The bag is stuffed full with all manner of glorious Halloween goodness. I’m not too proud to say there were more than a few things I purchased for the bag that I wanted to keep for myself. How do you win this grand
First, of course, see my previous post to enter the Coffin Hop contest, in which you can win a huge Halloween Mystery Bag filled with much goodness. Today one of my students took a photo of me using an “app” that turns you into a zombie. Needless to say I had to show off my
