Wordpress Hates YouTube

For some reason, whenever I put a YouTube Embed into Wordpress, it gets all fucky. Since it was screwing with my entire last post, let’s try it separately.
Here’s a short video of Dani with our new buddy. And no, your speakers aren’t broken, my camera doesn’t record audio.

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My Name is Luca

I’d like to take a moment away from my usual ranting about nonsense to welcome into the world the boy who will hopefully be my unborn daughter’s best friend: Luca Baruch D’Entrone.
Luca wasn’t due to join us out here in the cold, bright world until May 24, but he just couldn’t wait to get started, [...]

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Victory of Tissues

Lots of things happening on the writing front. Advance read copies for The Painted Man should be going out next week to reviewers and the like. I am very psyched for that. I also broke through my writer’s funk on The Desert Spear by skipping to another section and working on a different character, to [...]

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My Worst Nightmare

Yesterday I posted about how awesome it was to meet Terry Brooks and get him to sign my copy of The Elfstones of Shannara. What I didn’t mention was that just moments later, he brought me face to face with my worst nightmare!
Terry and his editor Betsy Mitchell were sitting a panel at New [...]

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Geek Out

Went to the New York Comic Con this weekend. Ostensibly, it was to network and meet people to help my career, and in that regard it was very helpful.
But I won’t lie. I was going to Comic Con, both in it’s New York and San Diego incarnations, long before I got a book deal and [...]

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Hipster Wannabe

It’s a nice day out today, and I decided to enjoy it a little before starting work. My plan was to go out into Prospect Park and walk the full inner loop, which is something like 3.5 miles, before coming back to write. That way I would get to enjoy the nice spring day, get [...]

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Site Updates and a New Title

Change is in the air.
Or maybe it’s just spring. I dunno.
Anyway, even as I branch out into MySpace and Facebook, updates to this site are in motion as well. Already, the News and Allies pages have had some overhaul, and this will branch out to the Creations and Character pages over the next few days. [...]

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Facebooker

Set my my account 12 hours ago and I have 14… no, wait, 15 friends already!
Sweet.
What are the rest of you waiting for?
You know what’s nice about Facebook? No goddamn music on people’s profiles. I hate that shit.

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Friend Me

So we’re on the cusp of the first significant update to my site since its inception last October. I’ve updated the blog, of course, but the other pages are static, and much less likely to get TLC here in the early part of my career when it’s pretty much only friends and family looking at [...]

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Springtime in Brookyln

I actually had several blog entries lined up and was planning to do at least one of them today, but for the first time I can recall this year, the temperature was above 65 degrees, and it was sunny outside. One of the wonderful things about writing full time (and having an unemployed pregnant wife) [...]

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