From the old blog
Archive
For many years, this site also served as my personal blog. Those posts are preserved here as an archive: book announcements, convention reports, music and pop-culture writing, family updates, and other pieces from 2011–2023.
2023 1 post
2022 1 post
2020 1 post
2019 3 posts
2018 12 posts
- Scourge of the Nephilim Out Now!
- Excelsior, Stan (Stan Lee: 1922-2018)
- Shadow (2001-2018)
- But other than that, how was the churro?
- A New Site Design and a New Cover
- Comic-Con bound!
- And Shadow turns 17
- Margo Kidder will always be my Lois Lane
- And then Drax turned three…
- Happy Birthday 4th Birthday Reilly!
- And that’s a wrap on NAMM 2018
- The NAMM show cometh (again)
2017 15 posts
- Lionheart’s Moonage Daydream (2002-2017)
- New Novel: Firebird Champion Released Today!
- Don’t Be A Sucker
- Southbound to Comic-Con (for a while)
- New short story: Yes/No
- Batman Has Left The Building Goodbye Adam West
- And Shadow Turns 16!
- Happy 14th Birthday Luna!
- Fell on Black Days–Goodbye Chris Cornell
- Happy 2nd Birthday Drax!
- Happy St. Paddy’s Day and other stories
- Happy Third Birthday Reilly!
- My birthday and my song
- Download a free copy of Firebird Alex
- Another year, another NAMM show
2016 51 posts
- O Princess My Princess
- Merry Happy Chanukah Christmas and other Holidays!
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Leonard Cohen–Post-punk’s Dylan–dead at 82
- Watcher and Firebird blog tour: new post with excerpt!
- Watcher and Firebird blog tour: Deborah Jay’s Review
- Happy Halloween–and a Watcher and Firebird blog tour!
- My Watcher and Firebird Playlist
- Voting, the direction of the country, and those left behind
- Happy New Year 5777!
- Author’s copies have arrived!
- New Novel Watcher and Firebird Released Today!
- Firebird Alex eBook free through September 5th!
- I wrote a free short story for you: A House off the Road
- Comic Con 2016 Wrap-up
- When lines are beyond crazy long
- We’re off to see the wizard…at Comic Con!
- Free fiction giveaway on my mailing list soon!
- Reilly at the Fair
- Happy 15th Birthday to Shadow!
- Happy Thirteenth Birthday Luna!
- In praise of the late Darwyn Cooke
- Happy Passover 2016
- And now Prince is gone
- I have a new Ember After album out: World Spins
- Happy Birthday! Drax the Destroyer turns 1
- Achievement unlocked: first draft of my next novel finished
- Supergirl + The Flash: no “v” required
- Happy National Puppy Day!
- I’m not Irish…
- Vision thing
- Full blog post list and contest for Stinger and Bow
- Stinger and Bow blog tour ends with a new review and excerpt
- Stinger and Bow Blog Tour Stop: 5 Girls Book Reviews
- Stinger and Bow Blog Tour Stops: Two new reviews!
- Blog Tour Stop: Candace’s Book Blog reviews Stinger and Bow
- Another trip around the sun
- Blog Tour Stop: A Review of Stinger and Bow
- Happy 2nd Birthday Reilly!
- Stinger and Bow Blog Tour Stop: Bookhounds
- Words and Music: My Stinger and Bow Playlist
- Stinger and Bow Blog Tour Stop: SolaFide Publishing
- Stinger and Bow Blog Tour Stop: Books for Thought
- Stinger and Bow Tour Stop: Driftless
- Stinger and Bow Tour Stop: Coffee, Books, and Art
- My new novel Stinger and Bow is out!
- Valentine’s Day Take Away
- A new look for orrenmerton.com!
- NAMM 2016–Trade shows aren’t dead
- Back to the NAMM – 2016 edition
- David Bowie has left the building