An interview with me on the Turn the Page Podcast about Daughter of the Wormwood Star! I was busy doing the book launch at the time, and hadn’t realized it was out yet. AWESOME… Read More
Hey everyone! On Thursday, October 10th we’ll be doing the official book launch for Daughter of the Wormwood Star at Werner Books! Come down, say hi, celebrate this new kick ass book. Buy a copy, get it signed! I promise, I won’t bite… Unless you say please, that is…… Read More
Hi everyone! This Saturday, from 12PM to 6PM I’m going to be at the Lake Erie Literary Festival. I’ll be there signing books, and at 5:30 I’ll be reading the introduction to Skinless Man Counts to Five. Come on, have some fun! There will be lots of other authors there, and it’s fun for the… Read More
I’m going to be hosting a panel at this year’s Eerie Horror Fest, the premier horror festival for Erie, PA. We’ll be talking horror fiction, writing, and all that fun stuff! Come and join us! At the end I’ll announce the official book launch for Daughter of the Wormwood Star. It’s going to be sponsored… Read More
So yes, I got a new writing toy. Well, tool, yes, a tool, maybe. Anyway, I’ve been eyeing something like the Freewrite Alpha for about a decade now. I tried building something similar with a raspberry pi, but it didn’t really end up working like I wanted it to. I thought about the main Freewrite… Read More
Ah, what a fine day for a horror book birthday! Cloudy grey and overcast, fog lapping through the streets in waves. Do you hear that? That screaming in the dark? Why it’s here, it’s alive! My horror short story collection The Skinless Man Counts to Five and other tales of the macabre look at how… Read More
One of the things I love about getting old anthologies and collections is reading over the introductions and prefaces. Not just for Year’s Best anthologies, but for ones that are like a survey and overview of specific subgenres, too (Space Opera Renaissance, Modern Classics of Fantasy, The Big Book series, The Weird, etc, etc). These… Read More
Check it out! This conversation has everything. Nontraditional story structure, innovating, book reviews and the importance of paid critics, self publishing vs trad publishing, “romantasy” and other trends, books, and even more about books, and much more.… Read More
You know it when you feel it. When you read something and it just floors you. Something about it sticks under the skin, twirls around for a bit and won’t leave you alone. Horror seems especially suited for iconic imagery, the kind of thing that will haunt the reader long after the book is closed… Read More