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Jon and I had a weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains recently. We rented a cabin nestled on its own wooded acreage, very private. In years past I’d tried to pick weekends for [...]

Samhain, or Halloween, marks the end of the year if you’re Wiccan. Our household is, so this is our New Year’s Eve. It is a time of remembering. Remembering the year [...]

Halloween is only two days away. It’s usually one of my favorite holidays, and has been since I was small, but this year I just can’t get in the spirit of things. [...]

I worked all day on “Hit List” the next Anita Blake novel. I had two pages for the whole day of work. I had written, rewritten, thrown out, and finally given up. It [...]

I’ve already discussed the emotional issues that can stop the muse and the artist in their tracks in the last two blogs. Today I’ll talk about the more mundane, but no [...]

I had so many responses about yesterday’s blog from artists who were having issues with their muses, inspiration, etc . . . I’ve devoted today’s blog to speaking [...]

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. Samuel Taylor [...]

For all of you who were asking what the heck is a kilt blowing, here is a little bit of what I did with Jennie Breeden of “The Devil’s Panties”. Good, naughty [...]

The latest Anita Blake Comic: The Charmer Released just yesterday. http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=16109   [...]

Two years ago I was a workaholic who tried to make everything pretty damned serious. This attitude had helped me build an enviable career as a novelist, and hit #1 on the New York [...]