Monthly Archives: October 2009

Last night was the big night, the annual Bowling for Boobies fundraising tournament. Not only did Team Sisters in Crime raise over 6000 dollars to help women with breast cancer, but we also had a fantastic time. Don’t take my… Read More

Went to a local MMA tournament yesterday to cheer for a young fighter who helped me research my latest novel. It was ungodly hot and rank in a way that only a high school gymnasium filled with nervous, sweaty, hormonally… Read More

By Sunday at b-con, I’m usually pretty punchy. This year was no exception. Another well-documented phenomenon in b-con physics is the “black hole bar effect.” This is why it’s so hard to achieve escape velocity no matter how late it… Read More

Saturday. Right. Well of course the big event on Saturday was the Anthony Awards. I managed to lose gracefully to the very sweet and funny Julie Hyzy’s culinary mystery State of the Onion but I’m still bitter over losing Best Cover… Read More

Don’t expect strict continuity here. I’m still way too jetlagged. Of course, since our zombie walking tour of Indianapolis has overshadowed the rest of Thursday in my jetlagged brain, I neglected to mention that I also accepted the Crimespree Award… Read More

After my clean shaven companion and I returned to the con hotel and went our separate ways, I realized that the cool bar recommended by the cute counter girl at the barber shop was the very same bar in which… Read More

In addition to the jetlag and mental exhaustion I suffer every year post b-con, there’s also this weird kind of humor decompression that I go through. I always get very tight, very quickly with friends I haven’t seen in a… Read More

Video of your not-so-humble narrator shot by Jim Winter for The Rap Sheet.

Photos first, words later. (ps for non-twitter types, there’s more here.)