And if it doesn’t? Well, author Wile E. Young faced down a tornado and lived last week, and he’s a kid, so I reckon I can do the same today.

I wrote in a recent Sunday newsletter about why — from an artist’s standpoint — I was stopping using Spotify and pivoting to Sirius/XM satellite radio instead. Now, courtesy of David J. Schow and Chet Williamson, comes these two interesting articles:

And I told Chris just that — the days of a cross-country mass signing tour were behind me, and behind him as well, and we were too old for that shit, and it was better we stay home and let the kids do them.

If you are a reader or a writer or an artist who enjoys the work of Sandy DeLuca or were perhaps influenced by her, and you’d be willing to offer some thoughts on her work or her impact on you

Emotions ran deep on the set last night, as we filmed the final scene of DEAD FORMAT.

…unless I cranked up the Judas Priest song playing on the radio and slammed the gas pedal to the floor.

A good Producer knows the quickest, closest, and easiest location to procure any of the 5,000 things that may be needed at any moment to prevent any of the 5,000 things that can go wrong

I don’t know if that was the reason why, but yesterday’s episode truly felt and sounded like the classic era of THE HORROR SHOW WITH BRIAN KEENE. Very satisfied with this one.

“Here. I made the deadline. But let me polish it?”

there’s always a physical crash and an emotional comedown after a charity event on the scale of AuthorCon, but never more so than after this, our sixth one.

I know Survivor like other men know NFL, complete with quoting player stats, etc. i am not ashamed of this. Survivor is a much less expensive fandom than footbal

Had I stuck to just bourbon I’d be fine, but got into shots of mezcal and some beers on top of that…

Once more… into the breach.

Too early to say for sure, but it may be a Levi Stoltzfus story.

This is two mornings in a row now that I’ve been awake before 3am.

…but given the way the news cycle works in 2026, 50% of the populace missed it, 25% thought it was AI, and 25% immediately turned it into a claim of “fake news” and blamed either the Right or the Left depending on which sports team they’ve chosen.

But yes, given the location in the title, and some other hints (like the sound of a waterfall nearby) one might assume this is taking place in the same locale as the Overlook Hotel. And one would be right to do so…

and there’s some sort of new automatic error (anyone who uses Amazon for indie publishing can tell you all about the random automatic errors that pop up all the time). This is one I’ve never encountered before —

Well, David is right. There is a storm coming. It’s a storm we old timers have seen before. Not time to start lashing yourself to the mast, but it may be time to load up your life raft so you can whether the weather.