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My review of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Lois the Witch and Other Stories is now live at Innsmouth Free Press as part of their Women in Horror Week. Like most Victorian writers Gaskell wrote her share ...

https://10badhabits.com/2013/03/10/lois-the-witch-and-other-stories/

There will never be a rainy Saturday afternoon long enough for all the movies that require a rainy Saturday afternoon to be fully appreciated.

https://10badhabits.com/2013/02/14/rainy-saturday/

It’s December. Here’s my list of ten favorite reads for the year. 1. The Vagabond – Colette Rene Neree is a divorced woman in the first decade of the 20th century who has “fallen” from ...

https://10badhabits.com/2012/12/02/favorite-reads-2012/

Like most people I have folders and folders full of pictures glommed from all over the Internet. Lately I’ve been making crude collages with them on power point. The above is for a short story ...

https://10badhabits.com/2012/06/26/images-millions-of-images-thats-what-i-need/

“Shadows Under Hexmouth Street” is my Joe Mitchell in Lankhmar story (mixed in with bits from my late aughties day job at an architectural preservation company). Joe Mitchell was a 1940s New ...

https://10badhabits.com/2012/02/23/shadows-under-hexmouth-street-at-beneath-ceaseless-skies-2/

I actually can’t stand hyper-real, “vivid” world-building. Leiber names maybe at most a dozen streets in Lankhmar and describes less than half a dozen neighborhoods — I’d be surprised i...

https://10badhabits.com/2012/02/13/world-building/

It’s December. You can expect some year end posts. Here’s my list of 10 favorite reads from this past year. 1. The King Must Die by Mary Renault: A historical novel set in ancient Greece rete...

https://10badhabits.com/2011/12/08/favorite-reads-2011/

Buddhist monks invented tea thousands of years ago in what is today southwestern China. These monks lived atop the mountains and found the beverage improved their ability to meditate over long pe...

https://10badhabits.com/2011/09/27/a-brief-history-of-tea/

I have a story in “Space Squid Gone Wild: The Best Comics, Stories, and Features From Five Years of America’s Favorite Unknown Zine.” My story is all about “Your Mother”. E-Book is only...

https://10badhabits.com/2011/09/17/your-mother-seen-going-wild-with-space-squid/

I’m not a fan of writing posts, especially those written by unpublished, self-published, and/or “neo-pro” writers. Nor am I fan of “celebrity slushreaders” going on about how they dream...

https://10badhabits.com/2011/08/24/control/