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Pete Mesling
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Aug 14
- 2 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Aug 6
- 2 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Apr 30
- 9 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Apr 8
- 1 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Apr 4
- 1 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Mar 22
- 2 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Mar 19
- 2 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Mar 11
- 10 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Mar 4
- 3 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Feb 21
- 2 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Feb 13
- 4 min
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...
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Pete Mesling
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
Under the Bulb with Steve Stred
I suppose now that I'm essentially off social media, with the occasional exception of TikTok, I should at least keep faithful readers of...
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Pete Mesling
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
Mike Leigh's Peterloo: A Review
“Medicine, law, business, engineering ... These are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love ......
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Pete Mesling
- Nov 13, 2022
- 1 min
Four Decades of Memories: Paul Quinn, Signing Off
A dear friend of mine passed away in September. His memory deserves more than the tribute I wrote for him in my hometown newspaper, but I...
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Pete Mesling
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
“The Thing in the Road”: An Author Reading
With my new horror collection, Fool’s Fire, coming in October, I thought it would be fun to give you a taste of what will be on offer....
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Pete Mesling
- Jul 30, 2022
- 1 min
Come, Saints and Sinners ... Step into the Fool's Fire!
Something in the middle distance. Much larger than a man. Shaking its cloven head back and forth on a hilltop, backlit by a full moon as...
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Pete Mesling
- May 8, 2022
- 2 min
TaleFlick and Blackberry Book Tours Updates
Things have been quiet here on the blog front, but it would be a mistake to think that means I haven’t been pounding away at the anvil of...
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Pete Mesling
- Feb 19, 2022
- 3 min
A Writer's Case for TikTok
TikTok didn’t seem very promising to me at first. I’m guessing a lot of writers don’t bother to move beyond a similar initial impulse....
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Pete Mesling
- Dec 28, 2021
- 4 min
2021: A Writer's Rewind
And so we find ourselves in that cozy interval between Christmas and New Year’s. New Year’s Day is especially meaningful for me this...
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