3/25/26

Final first unit shoot for DEAD FORMAT this Saturday, in Delaware. After that, we’ll be deep into post-production. I’ve got an idea for something I’d like to help produce next, but given the nature of that potential new project, I’d like to assemble a team of women — director, producers, crew, etc. — and serve as more of a silent producer.

I approach producing the same way I approached writing when I started out. Lots of honing and crafting and getting better at it each time. I think we can make the argument that I’m pretty good at this writing thing, if “good” is defined as “can make money doing it and people seem to enjoy it”. I’m finding, after several films now, that I’m pretty good at this producing thing, as well. There have been plenty of creative endeavors that I learned I was not good at. There was a time, between 2009 and 2013, where I tried my hand earnestly at painting — everything from pastel landscapes to black and white and red depictions of things I’d written. I was not good at painting. But the important thing was I tried. Never be afraid to try a creative endeavor. You will be better at expressing your art in some forms more than others. But it is the expression that matters. Doesn’t do you or the world any good to keep that expression bottled up inside.

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My pal Kasey Lansdale’s first solo novel is up for preorder in hardcover, eBook, and audio. Click here to reserve your copy. Kasey is a great example of a creative who tries expressing herself through different mediums. Singing, songwriting, acting, publishing, writing… she’s like an East Texas Renaissance Woman. And she never, ever stops. She’s always creating, always expressing, always making art.

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Yesterday’s workload involved FALLING ANGELS in the morning, and then a flurry of emails regarding one of me and Chris’s next two anthologies, and then a break to go tractor shopping. And after a few hours of going from place to place, I bought a tractor.

Today I intend to focus on all of the same, minus the tractor (which doesn’t get delivered until Friday, which means — given that I’ll be on set in Delaware Saturday — I won’t get to play with it until next week).