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Pete Mesling
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
- 2 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 31, 2022
- 12 min
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
- 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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Pete Mesling
- Dec 4, 2021
- 3 min
Cover Reveal: The Maker-Man of Merryville
Here it is at last, folks: the cover reveal for The Maker-Man of Merryville. I had hinted that I may end up releasing this book in time...
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Pete Mesling
- Sep 28, 2021
- 15 min
Source Material: A Curated Film-Adaptation Bibliography (1930 - 1980)
My principal aim with this bibliography was to get literary-minded cinephiles pointed in the right direction should they develop an...
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Pete Mesling
- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
Publishing after Fifty: A Look Ahead
Here I am, mere months away from my fiftieth birthday. Some milestones in life are more or less made up, but how could anyone let the...
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Pete Mesling
- Aug 11, 2021
- 5 min
Books to Date and Books to Come
Reader, you’ve put up with me as I’ve shifted my focus from horror to crime and suspense fiction over the past year or so, and I’ll repay...
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Pete Mesling
- Jul 3, 2021
- 6 min
"God Bless America": A Shocking (and FREE!) Tale of Criminal Hopelessness
I suspect that a marketing person would have urged me to use a title for this post that points to the fact that my new collection, The...
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