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High Notes: The Best of My Songs, Compositions, and Covers
I look at my best musical output with something like wonder. It's not simply the passage of time that makes it so alien to me. Sure, some...

Pete Mesling
Dec 31, 202212 min read
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"Troubling the Past": A Work of Fan Fiction Set in the World of Robert McCammon's Matthew Corbett Books
Don't miss this opportunity to read my work of Robert McCammon fan fiction, or watch the video of me reading it on my YouTube Channel!...

Pete Mesling
Feb 111 min read
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October, November, December 2024 Journal Entries
October 14. The thing that used to hang me up was all the books I’ll never read before I die, whether for the first time or not. Lately...

Pete Mesling
Dec 22, 202411 min read
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August and September 2024 Journal Entries
August 1. I do actually try not to judge a book by its cover. I understand the potential pitfall there. But a title? Totally fair game....

Pete Mesling
Oct 5, 20245 min read
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May, June, July 2024 Journal Entries
May 2. I have very little interest in the creative ideas  of other people. I guess that’s what puts me on the artistic, rather than the...

Pete Mesling
Jul 28, 20242 min read
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Off the Shelf: Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of a Dozen Favourites
Croatian publisher Amaranthine Books has been on my radar ever since they launched with an appealing edition of The Strange Case of Dr....

Pete Mesling
May 11, 20242 min read
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April 2024 Journal Entries
April 10. There’s something particularly true about a profile. In the mirror, we see mostly lies. In conversation, we too often hide...

Pete Mesling
May 4, 20244 min read
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March 2024 Journal Entries
Well, I didn’t get anything posted since last month’s journal entries, but that’s okay. If I don’t do much more than these monthly...

Pete Mesling
Apr 12, 20243 min read
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February 2024 Journal Entries
To my surprise and delight, I've been enjoying the new iPhone Journal app. They make it easy to ignore their annoying idea prompts, so...

Pete Mesling
Mar 10, 20242 min read
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Imajica: My Favorite Opening Paragraph
Opening paragraphs are not created equal, and I have a lot of favorites. Robert McCammon's The Providence Rider, George Eliot's Adam...

Pete Mesling
Aug 13, 20232 min read
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Off the Shelf: The King of Shadows
So Robert McCammon doesn’t write horror anymore, eh? Perhaps a reading of his latest Matthew Corbett novel, The King of Shadows, will...

Pete Mesling
Aug 6, 20232 min read
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My Favorite Stephen King Adaptations Ranked!
For the most part, I’m going to kick my cinephile self to the curb for this list. You’ll just have to trust that I’ve forgotten more...

Pete Mesling
Apr 30, 20239 min read
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Off the Shelf: Allen Koszowski's Dreams from the Dark Side
It was the publication of Centipede Press's new book of Allen Koszowski's artwork that got me thinking about doing another installment of...

Pete Mesling
Apr 8, 20231 min read
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Project L: My Latest Strategy Article for Casual Game Insider
Only the briefest of posts today, to let you know that my latest strategy article for Casual Game insider is availble now. Check out...

Pete Mesling
Apr 4, 20231 min read
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Michael Hedges: A New Documentary in Need of Funding
My two favorite guitarists of all time are both gone now. Eddie Van Halen, of course, wiped out the hard-rock world when he passed away...

Pete Mesling
Mar 22, 20232 min read
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The Ones Who Walked Away from Reason: Censoring Ursula K. Le Guin
Since my recent post about the unconscionable rewriting of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels, the ball of ignorance has continued to gather...

Pete Mesling
Mar 19, 20232 min read
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Free Story: "An Occurrence at Kendrick Outdoors"
It's been a while since I've offered up a free story. This one is from my most recent horror collection, Fool's Fire. "An Occurrence at...

Pete Mesling
Mar 11, 202310 min read
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Off the Shelf: Clive Barker's Imajica
Sometimes it occurs to me that a certain book could be put to great use in the classroom if I were a high school teacher. Clive Barker’s...

Pete Mesling
Mar 4, 20233 min read
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The Twits: Censoring Roald Dahl
Maybe you’ve read about it by now. Puffin, publisher of Roald Dahl’s children’s books, has taken to rewriting some of Dahl’s prose for...

Pete Mesling
Feb 20, 20232 min read
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Life's Little Problems
I like a good problem. I wouldn’t have characterized myself in this way for much of my life, but I see now that it was always true. Do I...

Pete Mesling
Feb 12, 20234 min read
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