Every writer feels the urge to do a Christmas story at least once. Here’s mine.

Clicking the above image will take you to the story’s Feedbooks page, where you can download it in just about any format your heart (or your e-reader) desires.

If you have Stanza on your iPhone, clicking this link will download and open it in one shot. It’s a Christmas miracle!

Don’t forget to reread Project Revolution #1, “Left Coast Karma”. Have fun connecting the dots, and Happy Holidays!

Two more days until the Revolution continues! Here’s a bit of the cover to get you in the mood:

And now you know the title too! Oops.

A few months ago, I wrote a short story. “Left Coast Karma” was fun, but it left a bunch of questions unanswered—and the more I thought about it, I realized I wanted to know the answers. So I started writing a novel to go with it.

Problem: I’ve cranked out two whole short stories in the last twelve months. Would any of you stick around long enough for me to finish a whole novel? Yeah, right. I thought about serializing the whole thing, but decided against it. With serials, all the people that want to join up in the middle have to go back and catch up from the beginning. Everybody knows someone who says they want to watch, say, Lost, but don’t want to commit to all the backstory. And—let’s face it—I really want to write a novel. Who doesn’t?

Solution: Project Revolution. Do both. Work on the novel and put out related stories along the way. Teasers, if you will. Spinoffs. Companions that go along with the novel and add to the experience. Complete arcs in themselves, without all the loose ends tied up. Read “Left Coast Karma”—Project Revolution #1—and you’ll see what I mean.

Now, with 10,000 or so words done on the novel and a short break from writing 3000-word TVgasm recaps, the time has come to release the second story. Project Revolution #2.

You’ll find it right here Monday, December 21. Just in time for Christmas!

A picture is worth a thousand words, and probably more if there are actually words on it… so…

I can’t wait! I’ve been watching this show since season 1, when they actually had good writers and everything. Now that the quality is, well, uneven at best, I can pick on it while fanboying at the same time. It should be tons of fun.

Join me next Monday for the Season 4 premiere, and watch this space for the recap!

Here’s the final Big Brother recap of the season! Schoonie, Flipit and I tag-teamed on this one so we could turn around a 2-hour show extra super fast. The BB finale is always bittersweet: Boo, it’s over! Yay, I get three hours of my week back! (Or in the case of this season, more like ten, counting the time it takes to write a recap.)

Enjoy!

So here it is, my last solo recap of Big Brother season 11! The two-hour finale is Tuesday, September 15, and each recapper (there are three of us) will be taking a third of the show. There are some format changes, which should make things a little more interesting than past BB finale nights. Hope to see you there!

After much cursing at Ecto, my recap of last night’s Big Brother is up. I could tell you a long sad story, but the short version is that I wrote, edited, screencapped and posted the thing, only to watch in horror at 4 am as Ecto ate all 1800 words of it. (And yes, I saved. Obsessively.) Luckily I had a first draft in Scrivener, which never ever lets me down, and recovery was just a matter of remembering all my edits and screencaps. So I only lost one more hour of sleep than necessary.

Needless to say, I’ll be doing the whole thing in Scrivener from now on, right up to paste-and-post. Whew.

So yeah, enjoy the stinkin’ recap.

At the cost of most of a night’s sleep, Big Brother season 22.11 recap is up at TVgasm. Only a couple of weeks left! After Big Brother, I’ll let you know my fall assignment. (Hint: it’s not House, but it starts with H and has most of the same letters.)

Enjoy the recap!

Another Big Brother recap is up! I posted this one six hours after the episode wrapped, which is a new record for me. Go start your Friday off with a laugh already.

Did you ever notice that all the restaurants and movie theaters run their specials on Tuesdays? Tuesday must be the slowest night of the week. Not for me, though. Here’s my Big Brother recap of the week!