Originally published at LonPrater.com. You can comment here or there.

Sometimes, staying home is the thing. Especially when you’re graced by a handful of Codex friends (Danielle T. Friedman, Helena Bell, Merrie Haskell, Ted Kosmatka, Kelly Swails) for an impromptu writer’s retreat and have wonderful food, wine and conversation the whole weekend long. Managed to get about 4,500 words done on the new novel, we did a fun reading, talked shop*, and in the middle of it all I learned that some of last year’s work has made the long list of Honorable Mentions for Best Horror of the Year #1.

• “A Road Like This, At Night”, Talebones #37, November 2008

• “Sugar and Old Spice”, ChiZine, October 2008

It’s always great to get that kind of positive feedback.  Congrats to all who are on the list!

In other news, I’ve been monkeying with the look and feel of the home site a bit.  So don’t be too disoriented if you pop over there.

* For writers, I wonder if the phrase shouldn’t be “talking shop”, but rather “talking garret”.  :)

Originally published at LonPrater.com. You can comment here or there.

I’ve decided to go ahead and let the Wordpress site publish my blog entries over to Facebook.  Too many people I only catch up with over there to leave you all neglected, and it seems like the guy driving the clownmobile over there finally got hit upside the head with the right clue-by-four.

Still going to send stuff to Livejournal, at least until the pack of wackadoos in charge over there utterly ruin it with their craziness.  For all intents and purposes, it’s still my main and preferred place to read blogs etc.  This may change whenever I get around to setting up Google Reader.

Myspace.  Oh, Myspace.  What an adorable, feisty trainwreck of a site you are.  I guess the best thing I can do to keep up with the family that and friends that see me there, is to use the “Share This” button under my posts and send it to Myspace that way, as a link back to here.  Myspacers, feel free to comment here on Myspace if you prefer.

Twitter.  I has it, but I rarely uses it.  Apparently there’s some way to forward tweets to Facebook status updates and even onto the Wordpress main site.  Sooner or later I will figure that one out.  Lord help us if Myspace will accept incoming tweets.