My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Novelist
Location	Earleville, MD, United States
Introduction	I am lazy and ill-tempered. My favorite pastimes include scuba diving in cold water, napping, tarantulas, photography, more napping, chasing the dogs around, horror films, avoiding writing, and getting inked.
Interests	Books, dogs, chocolate, opera, tattoos, oysters, bees, nudibranchs, India, pagan spirituality, voudou, crossword puzzles, The Macallan, cheese fries, marbles, maneki neko, tetsubin, tarantulas, gladiator movies
Favorite movies	Close Encounters of the Third Kind, All About Eve, Gladiator, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, Dark City, Amadeus, The Philadelphia Story, Pan's Labyrinth, Joyeux Noel, Sirens
Favorite music	Aimee Mann, DiVinyls, Queen, Concrete Blonde, Toni Childs, Robbie Robertson, Pink, Leslie and the Ly's, Martha Davis and the Motels, Rolling Stones, Mika, Kim Richey, Thompson Twins, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosanne Cash, AC/DC, Stevie Nicks, Lordi, Matraca Berg, Joan Jett, Scissor Sisters, kd lang, John Mellencamp, Kate Bush, Enter the Haggis, Pretenders, Tom Petty
Favorite books	Tove Jansson, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Mark Helprin, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Philip Pullman, Joyce Carol Oates, Gregory Maguire, Dylan Thomas, Sinclair Lewis