Quick update: My short story collection is now available via Kobo and iBooks (as well as usual suspects Amazon, Smashwords, and soon B&N). For the iBooks version, you’ll need to click on this link from your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. There are already some nice reviews on Amazon. If you like quirky, cerebral, and dark horror stories (there’s not a zombie [...]
One Writer’s Journey: From Nowhere to Somewhere, But Not Quite There Yet
I guest blogged at Helluo Librorum, a terrific writing blog run by Teresa Frohock. Writing a novel and trying to get it published is often a lonely, brutal, and soul-crushing adventure, and I wanted to offer some tangible and candid advice that might help others avoid my unrealistic expectations and embarrassing gaffes. I hope it [...]
Borderlands Boot Camp followup
I had a blast reading (aloud) the short assignments of the boot camp grunts at the 2009 Borderlands Boot Camp. The crew was great this year, including: writers Tom Monteleone, F. Paul Wilson, Doug Winter, Mort Castle, and Gary Braunbeck; editors Ginjer Buchanan and Jaime Levine; and friends like Norman Prentiss, Beth Blue, and Paul [...]
Another free short story
I’m feeling generous these days. Grab “Lunch Meat” for your iPhone, iPod Touch, or other mobile device here. It’s a short corporate horror story set in the not-so-distant future. Until it finds a proper home somewhere, I’ll keep it available. I’m just testing the waters with publishing for mobile devices since I downloaded Stanza for [...]
New short story to appear in Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry anthology
My short story, “Invocation of the Incisor,” will be appearing in the upcoming anthology Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry by DarkHart Press. If you like witchery and teething babies, you’ll enjoy this one. Publication is set for October—stay tuned.