Category Archives: Journal

Someone found my blog searching for “books as weird as Twin Peaks”. Hopefully they snagged a copy of Glass Coffin Girls- because oddly enough that’s exactly what I was going for when I wrote it. I think I was actually watching Twin Peaks as … Continue reading →

One of my currently literary faves talks about great stuff here- http://www.themillions.com/2012/01/lethal-language-ben-marcus-urges-writers-to-march-on-the-enemy.html

It was called Angelwings and Finerthings…which is a very light title for a very dark book. Anyway, I’d started writing it when I was 15…yes, 15, and was published when I was twenty, by the small press Six Gallery Press. … Continue reading →

So, I found something I’d thought I’d lost ages ago between three moves: The Beat Generation cd’s. I used to love these things, back in those mad days when I was a teeanger/early twenty something. And it’s interesting now, listening to these … Continue reading →

So here are some examples of the style of stuff you should expect to see after the great transition for Coffinmouth (issue 3- which will be renamed into something else): -Kafka on the Shore, Windup Bird Chronicle, Wild Sheep Chase- … Continue reading →

So I have a plan set in place for the next year for Coffinmouth magazine, something I like to call the GREAT TRANSITION. The next issue of Coffinmouth will be crazy, insane, five cents a word but sticking to the … Continue reading →

http://simplydelete.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/review-of-werewolves-by-paul-jessup-illustrated-by-allyson-haller/ Also nice to see the compliment re: writing female characters. Most of the main characters I write are female (I don’t know why…it just feels natural to me) and it’s good to know I’m not bowing to some culturally … Continue reading →

So, go here- http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/theft_of_swords-comments.shtml All right, done reading? Did you read the comments? You probably didn’t have to read too many to get the gist. It’s all basically: She’s a meany being all mean and a bully and how dare … Continue reading →

I’m trying to find a phrase for a kind of book I love to read, and the kind of stuff I like most when I write it. It’s surreal, very surreal usually. It uses a magical realism approach to reality … Continue reading →

I’m talking about a specific kind of weird writer here- the one who straddles the borderline between literary and genre fiction. There are quite a few of us out there- those who fit into neither camp, but write in some … Continue reading →