About Sluggo

Location: the Magical Land of Popcorn, where the Corn Fairies play; oh, you want something more prosaic? Okay: Valparaiso, Indiana

Age:49

Favorite novels: The Tin Drum, Moby Dick, the Tale of Genji, Breakfast of Champions, Ancient Evenings, A Graveyard for Lunatics, about 20,000 others but time presses, eh? Oh, and those Miss Pickerell books are nice.

Favorite writers: Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Richard Brautigan, John Dickson Carr, Colette, Richard Chwedyk, HP Lovecraft, MR James, Ngaio Marsh, Lady Murasaki, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, OH THIS IS GOING TO TAKE A WHILE, GO GET YOURSELF A COFFEE

Favorite music: Luxuriamusic.com, Technicolor Web of Sound, the New York Dolls, the Cramps, Ursula 1000

Non-noveling interests: Painting, quilting, sculpting, getting tattooed, arranging my sock drawer, bothering people in Luxuria chat, collecting cowboy hats and dust