In January, I’ll be teaching a new workshop for Odyssey Online: “Riveting Descriptions: Bringing Your Story to Life in the Reader’s Mind” … here’s the course information: Level: Beginner to Intermediate Class Times: There will be three live class meetings. Thursday, January 3, 2019 Thursday, January 17, 2019 Thursday, January 31, 2019 […]
Since 1999, National Novel Writing Month has happened every November. Twitter is abuzz with people who are gearing up for it now. Like most everything else, NaNoWriMo has some vocal detractors; I am certainly not one of them. I know several professional writers who have used the encouraging support system of NaNoWriMo as a way […]
Celeano Press just released What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween. The anthology features fiction by me, Storm Constantine, Arinn Dembo, Cody Goodfellow, Nancy Holder, Brian M. Sammons, Ann K. Schwader, John Shirley, Chet Williamson, and more. Here’s the first part of my story, “Cosmic Cola”: Millie leaned her forehead against the back window of her […]
This week, one of my readers asked about blind submissions and whether they’re an effective tool for editors to ensure that a magazine or anthology contains a good mix of authors and content. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, a “blind” submission involves a publication stripping an author’s identity from their manuscript before an editor […]
I and other authors such as David Day, Tim Waggoner, Gary A. Braunbeck, Janet Harriett, and Sarah Hans recently formed the new Ohio chapter of the Horror Writers Association. You can find the new group online at https://ohiohwa.wordpress.com/ and on Facebook. At present, the group is holding quarterly meetings; the next will be on November 4, […]
1959 is a novel by Thulani Davis that was published in 2001 by Grove Press. It is a first-person coming-of-age narrative that chronicles a young black girl named Willie Tarrant coping with adolescence and tensions over desegregation in Turner, Virginia. It’s also a fictional chronicle of how Willie’s community is transformed by the civil rights movement. I was interested to read the novel because it speaks […]
My story “A Hero of Grünjord” was published today in Outland Entertainment’s new anthology Hath No Fury. The book was edited by Melanie R. Meadors and features a foreword by Robin Hobb and an introduction by Margaret Weis. My story is an epic Lovecraftian science fantasy adventure. Nicolás R. Giacondino created a great illustration for it that you can see […]
My forthcoming collection Garden of Eldritch Delights went live on Amazon in late July. According to my publisher, pre-orders were brisk. But then, on August 8th, I noticed that Amazon had changed the book to “not available”. I contacted my publisher and they immediately logged a trouble ticket with Amazon to try to get the […]
Nightscape Press is running a Kickstarter to support their forthcoming anthology Ashes and Entropy. You can back their campaign until noon on Friday, August 31st. The book will contain cosmic horror and noir/neo-noir stories by Laird Barron, Damien Angelica Walters, John Langan, Kristi DeMeester, Jon Padgett, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Tim Waggoner, Jessica McHugh, Paul Michael Anderson, Max […]
