Recently, there has been a pretty hefty shifting in the licensing agreements of the estate of Robert E. Howard, the depression-era pulp author most famous for his character Conan the Barbarian, and, to a lesser extent, Red Sonja.
Howard committed suicide in the midst of the depression and never saw the huge fame his characters would […]

An odd side effect of my single-minded devotion to finishing my book above all else is that now that it’s done, I have no idea what to do with myself. I have all this free time, and no idea how to spend it. I haven’t been to the movies in months, haven’t spent a weekend […]

Feb. 2007 was a little grim for the Peephole. I don’t think I ever went a whole month with just one entry since the blog’s inception. But in my defense, I turned 34, had a big party, dealt with a bad cold, and finished the Painted Man.
Again.
I take heart in the fact that at least […]