Club High Castle

I laughed my heart out yesterday. It was glitter, glitter everywhere in my mind. I was writing in a cafe and needed a quick, temporary name for a miserable, middle aged character. I don’t want to know what my fellow coffee drinkers thought of the crazy woman laughing and snickering into her tiny keyboard… Since everyone I’ve told about this wants me to keep the character’s name as it is, I decided to post an excerpt. The following excerpt is (c) M.L. Crabb 2014 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Richard Butkiss! “We’ll get you help,” Kenneth stated, emerging from the shelter with a large knife strapped to his brown belt. His ruck sack was hanging from his left shoulder, and he was slipping his right arm into the remaining strap. “Where is Butkiss? It doesn’t take this long to take a dump.”                   “We are in…in…” My cousin started muttering something about his books. I didn’t care if he was some hot-shot New York Times bestselling author; he was being ridiculous. Had he suffere

 ~A quick recap of things around the Empire Earth over the past week. Don’t forget my 2014 Trick-Or-Treat Giveaway!  This week in… Science Or should I say mass media hysteria? An infectious disease nasty enough to warrant its own horror movie? After hearing all the talk around the proverbial water cooler, it seems like the media is going nuts with the three cases in the US. Yes, ebola is a scary thing akin to some sort of eldrichian horror crawling out of the pages of a Lovecraft story, but it’s not time to panic. When my next door neighbor or a coworker has it, cue the panic attack. I learned all I ever wanted (and more) about ebola when I read The Hot Zone . I even wrote a review about it on goodreads: Untitled Review of The Hot Zone . One word of advice: don’t google “ebola” and then click on images. Geekdom As I contemplate and stare aimlessly about the room for a geeky fun filled topic, my eyes drift towards my latest autograph. I can’t believe that I neglected to share it on h

…Because sometimes you have to do a crazy crossover between Frozen and Babylon 5 and share it with everyone. Babylon 5’s Susan Ivanova singing Let it Go . “A station of isolation, and it looks like I’m captain…” “Your thoughts never bothered me anyway.”   Here’s the Official YouTube video of the song:   Don’t forget my 2014 Trick-Or-Treat Giveaway!   Send in your Halloween costumes and decorations! Want to see what I’ll be wearing? Attack on Titan! I have yet to figure out what pants I’m going to wear. The official Attack on Titan uniforms involve white pants, but mixing me and white pants is like dipping double sided tape into an army of dust bunnies.