Author: Bill Gauthier

• School’s In Again, When’s Vacation?

  That title sucks, but what can you expect from a teacher after the first week of school is over? I went from spending the day working on the novel, reading…

• My Dad Hit the Nail on the Head, & Now I Will Tell You About It

  I brought my 14-year-old to visit my parents today. I owed them a visit because, while I live relatively close to them, I don’t see them a lot. I can…

• Pawn Stars, Facts, & the Death of True Reality

  I’m not a big reality TV kinda guy. Yes, I’ve had my guilty pleasures, but generally I’m not that interested. I spent some time with The Deadliest Catch but felt…

• Up the Hill to Lovecraft

  All right, sorry for the bad pun in the title of this little post. I just wanted to quickly let you know that I just finished reading Locke & Key,…

• The Sum of Our Parts

  This past weekend I got to meet up with two of my best friends, Toby and Jorj. They feel like they’re my oldest friends but that’s not the case. I…

• New Look, Same Bill

  So I’ve been playing around with the idea of changing the look of this site for a while and finally found something I like. I hope it looks all right.…

• Reading, Reading, Reading

  I’m not fond of being a slow reader. I discovered I read slowly fairly early on. There are people who read two books (or more) a week and that just…

• Revisionary Attitude

  My feelings on revising my work are the same feelings I have for cooking: I hate the idea of it, leading up to it, and actually beginning it, but once…

• The (Comi)X(ology) Marks the Spot

  Sometimes I’m thrilled to have been born in 1977. It means that while I have memories of a bygone era (and let’s face it, by the time you hit 30,…

• The Happiness My Girls Bring Me

  I’d done this before. The first time was fifteen years ago, when I was twenty. Back then, things were different. The idea of my having a child was hilarious, terrifying,…