http://sgbrowne.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:46:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With a couple of airplane flights and several hours waiting in the airport and time spent relaxing in a hammock beneath palm trees or on the beach or at the hotel pool, I had plenty of time to read over the past couple of weeks. Of course, I also spent ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/03/what-i-read-on-my-winter-vacation/ I'm sitting on the balcony of my hotel room on the 20th floor looking south along the beach in Ft. Lauderdale and I hear an alarm going off somewhere on the street below, followed by an authoritative recorded female voice issuing some kind of instructions. The alarm and voice ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/03/coming-to-you-from-florida/ You wake up at 6:00am PST Wednesday morning in San Francisco. You spend all day running last minute errands and packing for a 10 day trip and trying to get all those bright yellow Post-It notes with reminders off your desk. You catch the Super Shuttle, which arrives ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/02/the-glamour-of-book-touring/ In response to my last entry, Blah Blah Blog, Sarah Malone commented and posed a couple of questions that I thought would be best addressed here, since they're not just simple yes or no answers. And if anyone has any other questions, fire away.  I'll do my best to answer them ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/02/blah-blah-blog-qa/ Okay, I realize it's been nearly two weeks since my last blog entry, Andy's comments about breathers notwithstanding. Chalk it up to projects and trip planning and general distraction and attending to some personal matters like flying up to Portland and helping my mom pack and then driving her ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/02/blah-blah-blog/ I had some readers of my blog and of my recent interviews contact me wondering what my answers to my own questions would be, so I thought I'd conduct a somewhat incestuous and self-serving interview with myself for those who were curious. And to stick with the idea, here's ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/02/10-questions-with-s-g-browne/ James Melzer is the author of The Zombie Chronicles trilogy that began as a free podcast series on his website back in 2008. Since then it has been bought by Permuted Press and picked up by Simon and Schuster, with the first book, Escape, coming to print nationwide in March, ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/02/10-questions-with-james-melzer/ Rhiannon Frater is the author of the As the World Dies Zombie Trilogy, The Tale of the Vampire Bride, and Pretty When She Dies: A Vampire Novel, which has been optioned for film rights by Tripod Entertainment. As The World Dies:The First Days, the first in her zombie trilogy and her ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/02/10-questions-with-rhiannon-frater/ Eric S Brown has been called "the king of zombies" by Dread Central and he was featured in the book Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead (by Jonathan Maberry) as an expert on the genre. World War of the Dead, his first solo zombie novel, came out in 2009 ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/02/10-questions-with-eric-s-brown/ Sometimes I wish there were Protocol Police, Officers of the Social Graces who would fine people for inappropriate behavior and arrest repeat offenders who would have to serve time at an Etiquette Rehabilitation Center. People who litter. People who swear in public. People who don’t say please and thank you. Honestly, some of these ... http://sgbrowne.com/2010/01/protocol-police-cell-phone-criminals/