Novels<\/a> | Novellas<\/a> |\u00a0Collections<\/a> | As Editor<\/a> | Short Fiction<\/a> | Games<\/a> | Poetry<\/a> | Short Nonfiction<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The Star-Stained Soul.<\/i> Publisher TBA, TBA. (forthcoming)<\/p>\n Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars.<\/i> Publisher TBA, TBA. (forthcoming)<\/p>\n Daughter, Dreamer, Slayer.<\/i> Tor Nightfire, October 19 2027. (forthcoming)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sister, Maiden, Monster<\/a>. <\/i>Tor Nightfire, February 21 2023.<\/p>\n Switchblade Goddess<\/a>.<\/i> Del Rey, December 2011. The third book in the Jessie Shimmer series.<\/p>\n Shotgun Sorceress<\/a>.<\/i> Del Rey, October 2010. The sequel to Spellbent<\/i> (second book in the Jessie Shimmer series).<\/p>\n Spellbent<\/a>.<\/i> Del Rey, December 2009. A dark urban fantasy. Nominated for the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n New Blood<\/em>. In Halloween Beyond: Piercing the Veil<\/em><\/a> (Dark Tide Mysteries and Thrillers Book 4), Crystal Lake Publishing, October 2022.<\/p>\n Earthshine Ciphers<\/em> \u2013 The Challenge From Beyond 2021<\/em>, Forbidden Futures, October 2021. A Glimpse of Darkness<\/a>.<\/i> Del Rey, December 2010. <\/a><\/p>\n Dread Rainbows<\/em>. Publisher TBA, Date TBA. Exposed Nerves<\/em><\/a>. Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021. Halloween Season<\/em><\/a>. Raw Dog Screaming Press, October 2020. Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/a>.<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, October 2018. While the Black Stars Burn<\/a>.<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015. Soft Apocalypses<\/a>.<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, July 2014. Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/a>.<\/i> Post Mortem Press, June 2014. Orchid Carousals<\/a>.<\/i> CGP, August 2013. Chimeric Machines<\/a>.<\/i> CGP, March 2009. Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/a>.<\/i> CGP, October 2007. Sparks and Shadows<\/a>.<\/i>\u00a0HW Press, May 2007. Blood Magic.<\/i>\u00a0Eggplant Literary Productions, October 2001.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Chiral Mad 4<\/a>.<\/i> Written Backwards, October 2018. Dark Planet<\/a>. <\/i>An online magazine of science fiction, fantasy, horror, nonfiction and poetry that ran from 1995 through 2001.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n “The Tingling Madness” \u2013 Last Apocalypse Before Bedtime<\/em>, Outland Entertainment, 2027 (forthcoming) “Sideways” \u2013 Fever Dreams<\/i>,<\/i> Flame Tree Publishing, October 2025.<\/p>\n “Auon D\u0113w\u0101” \u2013 Enter Boogeyman<\/em>,\u00a0 Acheron Books, October 2024.<\/p>\n “Death Beneath the Dread Sleeper” \u2013 Mystery, Murder, Madness, Mythos<\/i>,<\/i> PS Publishing, December 2023.<\/p>\n “Everything After We Kissed” \u2013 Shadows Over Main Street, Vol 3, Bad Hand Books\/Bleeding Edge Books, September 2023. “madOddyssey” \u2013 Novus Monstrum<\/i>,<\/i> Dragon’s Roost Press, October 2023.<\/p>\n “White Meat” \u2013 Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising<\/i>,<\/i> Crystal Lake Publishing, June 2023.<\/p>\n “The Mountain Witch” \u2013 Never Too Old to Save the World<\/em>, Outland Entertainment, February 2023.<\/p>\n “Rainbow” \u2013 Strange Tales of Terror<\/em>,\u00a0 Independent Legions, December 2022.<\/p>\n “Avocation” \u2013 That Which Cannot Be Undone: An Ohio Horror Anthology<\/em>, Cracked Skull Press, September 2022. First appeared in Stitched Lips<\/em>, Dragon’s Roost Press, March 2021.<\/p>\n “The Viscount and the Phantom” \u2013 Classic Monsters Unleashed<\/em>, Crystal Lake Publishing and Black Spot Books, July 2022.<\/p>\n “While The Black Stars Burn<\/a>” \u2013 Weird Horror Short Stories<\/em>, Flame Tree Publishing, June 2022. “Magdala Amygdala”<\/a> \u2013 Figli del Buio<\/em>, Independent Legions Publishing, April 2022. “The Specter in the Closet” \u2013 99 Tiny Terrors<\/em>, Pulse Publishing, November 2021.<\/p>\n “Munchies” \u2013 Attack From the 80s<\/i>,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2021.<\/p>\n “Tiger Girls Vs. The Zombies” \u2013 Weirdbook Annual: Zombies!<\/em>, Wildside Press, September 2021. First appeared in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n “Station By Station” \u2013 Origins!<\/em>, Origins Game Fair, Inc., September 2021.<\/p>\n “Ruby Soul, Bone Moon” \u2013\u00a0New Maps of Dream<\/i>,<\/i> PS Publishing, August 2021.<\/p>\n “Navigational Error” \u2013 Fireside Quarterly<\/i>,<\/i> Autumn 2020.<\/p>\n “The Glitch” \u2013 Eyedolon Magazine,<\/i> Broken Eye Books, May 2020.<\/p>\n “Abandonment Option” \u2013 The Dystopian States of America<\/em>, Haverhill House Publishing, March 2020. “My Knowing Glance” \u2013 Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors<\/em>, Written Backwards, February 2020.<\/p>\n “A Simple Plan” \u2013 Eyedolon Magazine,<\/i> Broken Eye Books, November 2019.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Porcupine Boy\u201d \u2013 The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities<\/em>, Crossroad Press, October 2019. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “That Which Does Not Kill You” \u2013 Come Join Us By The Fire<\/em>, Tor Nightfire Books, October 2019. “Living Dead Space” \u2013 Eyedolon Magazine,<\/i> Broken Eye Books, August 2019.<\/p>\n “An Adventure in Badger Country” \u2013 Tales of Excellent Cats: A Monarchies of Mau Anthology,<\/i> Onyx Path Publishing, June 2019.<\/p>\n “The Dogs of Summer” \u2013 Mythical!<\/em>, Origins Game Fair, Inc., June 2019. “Approaching Lavender”\u2013 American Gothic,<\/i> Flame Tree Publishing, June 2019. “Visions of the Dream Witch”\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A\u00a0Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods<\/i>,<\/i> Pulse Publishing, April 2019. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “A Noble Endeavor” \u2013\u00a0Weirdbook Annual #2<\/i>, February 2019. “Diamante and Strass<\/a>” \u2013\u00a0The Drabblecast<\/i>, episode 393, December 2018. “The Kind Detective” \u2013 Ashes and Entropy,<\/i> Nightscape Press, December 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “In the Family”\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tales From The Lake Vol. 5<\/i>,<\/i> Crystal Lake Publishing, November 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “Dark of the Moon” \u2013\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, October 2018.<\/p>\n “Cosmic Cola”\u00a0\u2013\u00a0What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween<\/i>,<\/i> Celaeno Press, September 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 11.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n “A Hero of Gr\u00fcnjord” \u2013 Hath No Fury,<\/i>\u00a0Outland Entertainment, August 2018. “The Flechette<\/i>” \u2013 Eyedolon Magazine,<\/i>\u00a0Broken Eye Books, June 2018.<\/p>\n “The Abomination of Fensmere” \u2013\u00a0MYSTERY! Origins Game Fair Anthology<\/i>, Down and Out Books, June 2018. “The Tingling Madness” \u2013 The Cackle of Cthulhu,<\/i> Baen Books, January 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “Antumbra<\/a>” \u2013 The Beauty of Death 2: Death By Water<\/i>, Independent Legions Publishing, December 2017. First appeared in Apex<\/i> Magazine<\/i>, February 2014. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014. “Fraeternal” \u2013 Gamut Magazine,<\/i>\u00a0December 2017. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n “Sunset on Mott Island” \u2013 Shadows Over Main Street, Vol. 2,<\/i> Cutting Block Books, October 2017. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018. Translated into Italian in Horror Academy Vol. 2<\/em>, Independent Legions, December 2022. “Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars” \u2013 Ride The Star Wind,<\/i>\u00a0Broken Eye Books, September 2017. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n “Hazelnuts and Yummy Mummies” \u2013 Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders,<\/i> Crystal Lake Publishing, July 2017. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “A Simple Storm-Calling” \u2013 DRAGONS! Origins Game Fair Anthology,<\/i> Rio Grande Games, June 2017.<\/p>\n “Devoured” \u2013 NASTY: Fetish Fights Back,<\/i>\u00a0Flash Fiction Online LLC, May 2017.<\/p>\n “The Gentleman Caller” \u2013 Return of the Old Ones,<\/i> Dark Regions Press, February 2017. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n “The Great V\u00fcD\u00fc Teen Linux Zombie Massacree” \u2013 Funny Horror<\/i>, UFO Publishing, February 2017. First appeared in Spacesuits and Sixguns<\/i>, Spring 2007. Reprinted in Voices For The Cure<\/i>, January 2008; Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/i>, 2007; Death, Be Not Proud<\/i>, Dark Quest, September 2011. Produced for The Drabblecast<\/i> on April 7 2015.<\/p>\n “Executive Functions” \u2013 You, Human,<\/i> Dark Regions Press, December 2016. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n “What Dwells Within” \u2013 Shadowed Souls,<\/i> Penguin Random House, November 2016. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “Along the Scenic Route” \u2013 X-Files Vol. 3: Secret Agendas,<\/i> IDW Publishing, October 2016.<\/p>\n “Moon Palace, Serpent Sea” \u2013 Shadowrun: Drawing Destiny: A Sixth World Tarot Anthology,<\/i> Catalyst Game Labs, September 2016.<\/p>\n “The House That Couldn’t Clean Itself” \u2013 ROBOTS! Origins Game Fair Anthology,<\/i> Rio Grande Games, June 2016. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “The Warlady’s Daughter” \u2013 Champions of Aetaltis,<\/i> Mechanical Muse, April 2016. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n “A Boy’s Guide to Neoteny” (prose version) \u2013 recompose<\/i>, Alliteration Ink, December 2015.<\/p>\n “Mostly Monsters” \u2013 While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n “The Toymaker’s Joy” \u2013 Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Anthology,<\/i> Evil Girlfriend Media, November 2015. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “The Yellow Death” \u2013 Seize The Night<\/i>, Gallery Books, October 2015. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.\u00a0Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 8.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n “Cthylla” \u2013 The Library of the Dead<\/i>, Written Backwards, May 2015. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n “Spinwebs” \u2013 Not Our Kind<\/i>, Alliteration Ink, January 2015. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n “Kudzu” \u2013 A Darke Phantastique: Encounters with the Uncanny and Other Magical Things<\/i>, Cycatrix Press, October 2014. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 7.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n “Demonized” \u2013 What Lies Beneath<\/i>, Circlet Press, October 2014. First appeared Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “The Girl With The Star-Stained Soul” \u2013 In The Court of the Yellow King<\/i>, Celaeno Press, September 2014. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n “Santa Muerte” (co-written with Daniel R. Robichaud) \u2013 Streets of Shadows<\/i>, Alliteration Ink, September 2014. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n “Dura Mater” \u2013 Qualia Nous<\/i>, Written Backwards, August 2014. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n “The Leviathan of Trincomalee” \u2013 Steampunk World<\/i>, Alliteration Ink, August 2014. First appeared in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014. Reprinted in Life After Ashes<\/i>, Alliteration Ink, February 2015. Reprinted in On Wings of Steam<\/em>, Winter Wolf Publications, May 2022.<\/p>\n “The Good Girl” \u2013 Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n “Functionality” \u2013 Jamais Vu<\/i> Issue #2, Post Mortem Press, April 2014.<\/p>\n “The Strange Architecture of the Heart” \u2013 Bless Your Mechanical Heart<\/i>, Evil Girlfriend Media, March 2014. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n “Through Thy Bounty” \u2013 LampLight Magazine<\/i>, March 2014. First appeared in The Midnighters’ Club<\/i> anthology, June 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007, in Apex Online<\/i> in 2008, and in LampLight Vol. 2<\/i> in 2014. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015. “Miz Ruthie Pays Her Respects” \u2013 Piercing the Darkness<\/i>, Necro Publications, February 2014. First appeared in Dark Faith<\/i>, Apex Publications, May 2010. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n “Jessie Shimmer Goes To Hell” \u2013 Manifesto UF<\/i>, Angelic Knights Press, September 2013. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n “At the Royal Orchid” \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “Biscuit” (co-written with Kaysee Renee Robichaud) \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “How Linux Boy Met the Mistress of the Beast with Two Backs” \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “How To Get A Goth Out of a Tree” \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “Fragment” \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “The Dominatrix Confesses” \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “The Lonely Ones Will Find Each Other by the Heat of Their Bodies” \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “Spare The Rod” \u2013 Eulogies II: Tales From The Cellar<\/i>, Horror World, July 2013. “I Fuck Your Sunshine” \u2013 Vampires Don’t Sparkle<\/i>, Seventh Star Press, March 2013. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014. Translated into Japanese in Night Land Quarterly,<\/i> May 2015. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 6.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n “The Cold Blackness Between” \u2013 Once Upon A Curse<\/i>, Dragonwell Publishing, December 2012. First appeared in Aoife’s Kiss,<\/i> March 2008. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n “Repent, Jessie Shimmer!” \u2013 Appalachian Undead<\/i>, Apex Publications, November 2012. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n “However ….” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 Hellbound Hearts<\/a><\/i>, Pocket Books, September 2009. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 2.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n “Burning Bright” \u2013 Maiden, Mother, Crone<\/i>, Drollerie Press, 2009. First published in Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, May 2007.<\/p>\n “A Preference For Silence” \u2013 Escape Pod<\/a><\/i>, March 31, 2009. First published at Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,<\/i> Issue #5, November 1999. Reprinted in the August 12, 2000 edition of Dark Matter Chronicles<\/i> and in the February 2001 issue of Writer Online<\/i>. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n “Faery Cats: The Cutest Killers” \u2013 PodCastle<\/a><\/i>, March 20, 2009. First published at Strange Horizons,<\/i> February 27, 2006. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “The Cold Gallery” \u2013 Legends of the Mountain State 2<\/i>, September 2008. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n “Podophyllum sidhe<\/i>” \u2013 A Field Guide to Surreal Botany<\/i>, Two Cranes Press, July 2008.<\/p>\n “In The Shadow of the Fryolator” \u2013 The Town Drunk<\/i>, October 2007. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/i>, 2007.<\/p>\n “Trolls Gone Wild” \u2013 Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/i>, Creative Guy Publishing, 2007.<\/p>\n “Fable Fusion” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague<\/i>, Big Finish Productions Ltd., June 2007. “Roses of Gomorrah” \u2013 Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, May 2007.<\/p>\n “Boxlunch” \u2013 Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, May 2007.<\/p>\n “Feel the Love” \u2013 Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, May 2007.<\/p>\n “Wake Up Naked Monkey You’re Going To Die” \u2013 First published in Horror World<\/i>, March 2007. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>. Honorable mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 (#21).<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n “Authorities Concerned Over Rise of Teen Linux Gangs” \u2013 The Town Drunk<\/i>, December 2006. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “Graveyard Shift” \u2013 The Town Drunk<\/i>, November 2006. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/i> in 2007: “Sara and the Telecats” \u2013 Farthing<\/i> #4, September 2006. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “The Sheets Were Clean And Dry” \u2013 Masques V<\/i>, Gauntlet Press, June 2006. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “Your Corporate Network and the Forces of Darkness<\/a>” \u2013 Strange Horizons,<\/i> June 20, 2005. Podcast at Escape Pod<\/i> November 2005. Reprinted in Dark Jesters: The Best in Underground Comedic Horror<\/i>, October 2006 and in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “The Dickification of the American Female” \u2013 Clean Sheets,<\/i> June 15, 2005. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “So Lonely As The Grave” \u2013 Dark Lurkers<\/i>, Double Dragon Press, May 2004. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User’s Notes<\/a>” \u2013 Strange Horizons,<\/i> April 5, 2004. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger<\/i> in 2007. Honorable mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 18.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n “Fall of Darkness” \u2013 Apocalypse Fiction Magazine<\/i>, July 2003. Reprinted in Orchid Carousals<\/i>, August 2013.<\/p>\n “Carnal Harvest” \u2013 1000 Delights,<\/i> December 2001. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n “… And Her Shadow” \u2013 Blood Magic,<\/i> Eggplant Literary Productions, October 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “Flesh and Blood” \u2013 Blood Magic,<\/i> Eggplant Literary Productions, October 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “Homecoming” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 The Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess,\u00a0<\/i>Ace Books, September 2001.<\/p>\n “The Dolls’ Hearts” \u2013 The Midnighters’ Club<\/i> anthology, June 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “La Ni\u00f1a” \u2013 Quantum Muse,<\/i> April 2001.<\/p>\n “Souls To Take” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 Villains Victorious,<\/i> DAW Books, April 2001.<\/p>\n “In The Wilderness” \u2013 Clean Sheets,<\/i> March 2001. Reprinted in Orchid Carousals<\/i> in 2013.<\/p>\n “… Next on Channel 77” \u2013 Guardian Angels,<\/i> Cumberland House Publishing, November 2000. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “News From The Long Mountains” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 Civil War Fantastic,<\/i> DAW Books, July 2000.<\/p>\n “Forgetting” \u2013 Jackhammer E-Zine,<\/i> Vol. 3 Number 17, April 2000. Reprinted in the Best of Jackhammer E-zine Anthology<\/i> in Feb. 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “Darwin’s Children” \u2013 Snow Monkey,<\/i> Vol.1 Number 2, Ravenna Press, Seattle, December 1999. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “The Still-Life Drama of Passing Cars” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 Bedtime Stories To Darken Your Dreams<\/i> (edited by Alan Clark and Bruce Holland Rogers), IFD Publishing, May 1999. Reprinted in The Little Orange Book of Odd Stories<\/i>, Wildside Press, 2003. “Soul Searching” \u2013 Cosmic Visions,<\/i> Fall 1997. Reprinted in Blood Magic<\/i> in October 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “Thirteen’s Revolution” \u2013 Midnight Zoo,<\/i> Vol. 3 Number 1, 1993.<\/p>\n “Toy Gun” \u2013 Oasis Literary Magazine,<\/i> Vol. 3, 1992.<\/p>\n “A Storm in May” \u2013 Oasis Literary Magazine,<\/i> Vol. 1, 1990.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cClaustro Cave\u201d \u2013 Fish Wrangler<\/em><\/a>, October 2020.<\/p>\n \u201cBreakfast Bay\u201d \u2013 Fish Wrangler<\/em><\/a>, June 2020.<\/p>\n “An Adventure in Badger Country” \u2013 Tales of Excellent Cats: A Monarchies of Mau Anthology,<\/i> Onyx Path Publishing, June 2019.<\/p>\n \u201cMonsoon Lagoon\u201d \u2013 Fish Wrangler<\/em><\/a>, July 2019.<\/p>\n \u201cRoperian Ocean Cleanup\u201d \u2013\u00a0Fish Wrangler<\/em><\/a>, November 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cInnsmouth Island Adventure\u201d \u2013\u00a0Fish Wrangler<\/em><\/a>, October 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cBig Love Island Adventure\u201d \u2013\u00a0Fish Wrangler<\/em><\/a>, February 2018.<\/p>\n “Moon Palace, Serpent Sea” \u2013 Shadowrun: Drawing Destiny: A Sixth World Tarot Anthology,<\/i> Catalyst Game Labs, September 2016.<\/p>\n “The Warlady’s Daughter” \u2013 Champions of Aetaltis,<\/i> Mechanical Muse, April 2016.<\/p>\n “Jessie Shimmer Campaign Setting” \u2013 D6xD6 Expanded Game,<\/i> Popcorn Press, February 2015.<\/p>\n Flavor text \u2013 Dollars & Sense: The Complete Financial Planning Game<\/a>,<\/i> Franklin University, 2014.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Kyria 2.0: A Joint Report from R&D and Marketing” \u2013 Weird Tales #373: Weird Science<\/em>, Weird Tales, Inc., October 2026.<\/p>\n “Fragility” \u2013 Nightmerica: Corruptions of the American Dream<\/em>, Dragon’s Roost Press, July 2025.<\/p>\n “The Modern Sisyphus” \u2013 Nightmerica: Corruptions of the American Dream<\/em>, Dragon’s Roost Press, July 2025.<\/p>\n “A Note From Your Secret Admirer” \u2013 Shakespeare Unleashed<\/em>, Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing, September 2023.<\/p>\n “The Grim Wives” \u2013 Poetry Showcase Volume IX<\/em>, Horror Writers Association, October 2022.<\/p>\n “Faith” \u2013 Chiral Mad 5<\/i>, Written Backwards, September 2022. “At the Downtown University” \u2013 Chiral Mad 5<\/i>, Written Backwards, September 2022. “In Spite of It” \u2013 Of Horror and Hope<\/em>, Horror Writers Association, July 2022. “The Wrong Daughter” \u2013 NeurodiVERSE, Flapjack Press, March 2022. “It Only Hurts When I Dream” \u2013 Tales of the Lost <\/em>(Vol. 3), Plaid Dragon Press, Dec. 2021.<\/p>\n “Cowboy Shot” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “The Invisible Woman” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “A Dream of You” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “January”\u00a0 \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s Fine” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Chronic” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “A Leggy Bestiary” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Low Tea” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Exit Signs” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Imagine My Brain Is Barbados” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “(In)Jest” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Making Light” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Lessons” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “The Friend Defense” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “My Neighbor Posts to the Apartment Page” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “My Neighbor Defends Her Champion” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “(Sis)yphus” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Maturity” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “After She Slams the Door Behind Her” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Romantic Overture #6” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “The Disney Gap” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Serpents” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Mythical” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “When the War Ended” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Mission Commander\u2019s Log” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Navigational Error” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Dirty Americans” \u2013 Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Dawn” \u2013 Bright Sides, Silver Linings, and Making Lemonade<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, March 2021. “Fragile” \u2013 Weirdbook #44<\/i>, 2021. “The Unforgiving King” \u2013 Haiku Cthulhu<\/i>, Pulse Publishing, 2021. “October” \u2013 Tales of the Lost <\/em>(Vol. 2), Plaid Dragon Press, October 2020. “Silences” \u2013 Vastarien: A Literary Journal<\/i>, Summer 2019. “Beggars’ Night” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 Halloween: New Poems<\/i>, Cemetery Dance Publications, May 2010. “Permian Basin Blues” \u2013 Do Not Go Quietly<\/em>, Apex Books, May 2019. “bad night” \u2013 Weirdbook #39<\/i>, July 2018. “Salty” \u2013 Weirdbook Annual #1<\/i>, October\u00a02017. “November” \u2013 The Fat Damsel<\/i>, August 2017. “Shore Leave” \u2013 Illumen<\/i>, Autumn 2016. “The Scientist’s Paramour” \u2013 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine<\/i>, October\/November 2016. “Scary” \u2013 Scary Out There<\/i>, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, August 2016. “Dangerous” \u2013 Scary Out There<\/i>, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, August 2016. “turnt” \u2013 Scary Out There<\/i>, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, August 2016. “Wolf Waltz” \u2013 HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. III, August 2016. “Employee Recognition Day” \u2013 Star*Line,<\/i> Summer 2016. “February” \u2013 The Pitkin Review<\/i>, June 2016. “Worm and Memory” \u2013 Nightmare Magazine<\/i>, October 2015. “Recreation” \u2013 The Cutting Room<\/i>, Tachyon Publications, October 2014. “True Romance” \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “Cougar” \u2013 Orchid Carousals<\/i>, CGP, August 2013.<\/p>\n “Fright-Night Triple Feature” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) \u2013 Halloween: New Poems<\/i>, Cemetery Dance Publications, May 2010.<\/p>\n “Home for the Holidays” \u2013 Weird Tales,<\/i> Fall 2009.<\/p>\n “And There in the Machine, Virginia Finally Stood Up” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Tech Support” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “After the Funeral” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Mute Birth” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Terror White” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Cissy Cocalus” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Ari, Pushing Forty” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Gigantic” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Internal Combustion” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009. Reprinted in Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine<\/i> Issue 5, Winter 2009.<\/p>\n “At The Rec Center” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Squidliquor” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Sofa Nervosa” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Looped” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Book Smarts” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Dumb” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “A Boy’s Guide to Neoteny” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Infinite Loop: Girl With Black Eye” \u2013 Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Crete, Kentucky: Passie Fay’s Lament” \u2013 Full Unit Hookup Magazine,<\/i> August 2008. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n “Babel’s Children” \u2013 Star*Line,<\/i> May 2008. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “Subtlety” \u2013 Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine,<\/i> Spring 2008. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “The Evil Overlord’s Lament” \u2013 Beyond Centauri,<\/i> January 2009.<\/p>\n “Uncanny Valley Girl” \u2013 Raven Electrick,<\/i> November 30, 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “Dime Novel” \u2013 Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, May 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “The Fish and the Bicycle” \u2013 Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, May 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “The Jarred Heart” \u2013 Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, May 2007.<\/p>\n “glowfish” \u2013 Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, May 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “Flyboy” \u2013 Strange Horizons,<\/i> April 30, 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “Sympathy” \u2013 Strange Horizons,<\/i> November 2006. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “Trepanation” \u2013 Strange Horizons,<\/i> July 2006. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “Prometheus” \u2013 Scared Naked<\/i>, September 2003. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “The Celebrant” \u2013 Deviant Minds,<\/i> Summer 2003.<\/p>\n “Modernism” \u2013 Snow Monkey,<\/i> Ravenna Press, Seattle, Spring 2002. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “soft armies” \u2013 Full Unit Hookup Magazine,<\/i> Spring 2002<\/p>\n “Searching For Signs of Life In the Bottom of a Cup of Cold Coffee” \u2013 First published as “Real Life” in Full Unit Hookup Magazine,<\/i> Spring 2002. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “The Monster Between The Sparks” (previously titled “Dark Matter”) \u2013 Chiaroscuro,<\/i> January 2002. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “White” \u2013 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,<\/i> Issue #8, May 2001.<\/p>\n “Photograph of a Lady, Circa 1890” \u2013 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,<\/i> Issue #7, October 2000. Portions appeared in The Indifference of Heaven<\/i> by Gary A. Braunbeck (Obsidian Press, 2000). Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007 and in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2009.<\/p>\n “Marionette” \u2013 Oasis Literary Magazine,<\/i> Vol. 3, 1992.<\/p>\n “Hemispheres” \u2013 Oasis Literary Magazine,<\/i> Vol. 2, 1991.<\/p>\n “Ambivalence” \u2013 Oasis Literary Magazine,<\/i> Vol. 1, 1990.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n “Building Worlds and Creating Mood and Atmosphere<\/a>” \u2013 CrimeReads.com<\/em>, February 21, 2023.<\/p>\n “A Slippery World: Writing Poetry About Gender and Sexuality” \u2013 Writing Poetry in the Dark<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, October 2022.<\/p>\n “Creating Compelling Characters” \u2013 Writers Workshop of Horror 2<\/i>, Hydra Publications, September 2021.<\/p>\n “Introduction” \u2013 Meaningless Cycles in a Vicious Glass Prison: Songs of Death and Love<\/i>, Dragon’s Roost Press, July 2020.<\/p>\n “A Good Story” \u2013 The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre<\/em>, HellBound Books, January 2020. “Fund Your Writing With Patreon” \u2013 Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market 2020<\/em>, Writer’s Digest Books, December 2019. “Manuscript Critiques For Fun and Profit” \u2013 SFWA Bulletin<\/i>, Spring 2018.<\/p>\n “The Poetry of Flash Fiction” \u2013 Writer’s Digest<\/i>, January 2018.<\/p>\n “Kickstart Your Book” \u2013 Writer’s Digest<\/i>, November\/December 2017. “Surviving as a Freelancer” \u2013 Abyss & Apex<\/i>, October 2017.<\/p>\n “Fractured Souls: The Evolution of the Gothic Double from Stevenson to King” \u2013 Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling<\/i>, Apex Publications, December 2016.<\/p>\n “The Braided Novel” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Nov. 20, 2016.<\/p>\n “A Horror Writer Pursues an MFA” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Nov. 2, 2016.<\/p>\n “The Pox Party” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Oct. 16, 2016.<\/p>\n “The Fix-Up” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Oct. 12, 2016.<\/p>\n “On Short Story Collections” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Oct. 11, 2016.<\/p>\n “X-Files: Secret Agendas” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Oct. 10, 2016.<\/p>\n “The Red Tree” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Oct. 2, 2016.<\/p>\n “World Building the Machine” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Oct. 2, 2016.<\/p>\n “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Oct. 1, 2016.<\/p>\n “The Horror at Red Hook” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Oct. 1, 2016.<\/p>\n “Kindred” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Sept. 25, 2016.<\/p>\n “The Ballad of Black Tom” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Sept. 22, 2016.<\/p>\n “Scary Out There and Rot & Ruin” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, Sept. 5, 2016.<\/p>\n “New (and Old) Lovecraftian Fiction” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, August 27, 2016.<\/p>\n “Locke & Key: Head Games” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, July 26, 2016.<\/p>\n “Advice For New Writers ” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, June 5, 2016.<\/p>\n “Existential Terrors” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, June 5, 2016.<\/p>\n “Alabaster: Wolves” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, May 1, 2016.<\/p>\n “Welcome to Lovecraft” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, April 17, 2016.<\/p>\n “Anna Dressed in Blood” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 28, 2016.<\/p>\n “An Exploration of Racism in Heart of Darkness” \u2013 Apex Magazine<\/i>, January 2016.<\/p>\n “The Intersection of Science Fiction and Horror” \u2013 Nightmare Magazine<\/i>, August 2014. “Peculiars and Monsters” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, December 28, 2015.<\/p>\n “Sticky Beginnings” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 21, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Waste Lands” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 7, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Hunger Games” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 7, 2015.<\/p>\n “Choke Hold” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 7, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Drawing of the Three” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 1, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Gunslinger” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 1, 2015.<\/p>\n “On Being Nineteen” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 31, 2015.<\/p>\n “Well, That Escalated Quickly: Adventures in Teaching Creative Writing” \u2013 Writers On Writing<\/i> Vol. 2, Crystal Lake Publishing, October 2015.<\/p>\n “Dead But Dreaming: A Lovecraftian Libation” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 24, 2015.<\/p>\n “Unintentional Horror in Wild at Heart” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 17, 2015.<\/p>\n “Dead Paper, Live Paper” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 14, 2015.<\/p>\n “Unreliable Narrators in Kiernan and Chambers” \u2013 Apex Magazine<\/i>, October 2015.<\/p>\n “Weird Fiction” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 4, 2015.<\/p>\n “Queers Destroy Horror” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 3, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Thief of Always by Clive Barker” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 3, 2015.<\/p>\n “Growing Up Bookish and Southern” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, September 24, 2015.<\/p>\n “Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, September 6, 2015.<\/p>\n “Description and ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter'” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, August 23, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, August 8, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, July 25, 2015.<\/p>\n “Masque of the Red Death” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, July 13, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Drowning Girl: A Memoir” \u2013 Dark Discoveries #31<\/i>, April 2015. “The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, May 31, 2015.<\/p>\n “Mr. Hyde” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, April 20, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Turn of the Screw by Henry James” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, April 5, 2015.<\/p>\n “‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, March 22, 2015.<\/p>\n “Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, March 8, 2015.<\/p>\n “Story Idea Generation: Local Hauntings” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 21, 2015.<\/p>\n “The King in Yellow” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 5, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, January 29, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Grace of Dice and Glossy Cardstock” \u2013 Chicks Dig Gaming<\/i>, Mad Norwegian Press, November 2014.<\/p>\n “Women Destroy Horror: A Historical Overview of Classic Novels” \u2013 Nightmare Magazine<\/i>, October 2014.<\/p>\n “The Old School” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Finding Time to Write” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Q&A: Why Aspiring Novelists Should Write Short Stories” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “On Plot” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “On Sales vs. Publications” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “The Most Difficult Part of the Story: Beginning, Middle, or End?” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Setting: How Much Is Too Much?” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “World Building: The City, its Magic, and its Monsters” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Characterization and Mary Sues” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “What Can Happen If You Accidentally Commit Plagiarism” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Dealing with Rejection” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “On Self-Publishing” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “On Collaborations” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Book Signings and Basic Book Promotion Steps” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “How Books Get Into Libraries” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Book Advertisements” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Signature Sheets” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “On Crowd-Funding” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Tuckerizations” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “On Author Interviews” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Horror” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Tripping the Dark Fantastic” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Paranormal Romance” \u2013 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i>, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.<\/p>\n “Networking At Conventions” \u2013 Horror 101: The Way Forward<\/i>, Crystal Lake Publishing, April 2014. “On Meeting Chuck Palahniuk” \u2013 Jamais Vu<\/i> Issue #2, Post Mortem Press, April 2014. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Introduction” \u2013 An Inheritance of Stone<\/i>, Alliteration Ink, September 2013.<\/p>\n “The Gen Con Writer’s Symposium” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, September 2013.<\/p>\n “Kindle Fire HD Review” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, May 2013.<\/p>\n “Interview With Ursula K. Le Guin” \u2013 The Writers’ Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/i>, Seventh Star Press, April 2013. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014 and NewMyths<\/i> in December 2014.<\/p>\n “Alpha Males and the Reader’s Suspension of Disbelief” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 2012. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “On Urban Fantasy” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, August 2012. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Friends For Your Fiction” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, May 2012. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Is LinkedIn Useful to Horror Writers?” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 2012.<\/p>\n “On NaNoWriMo” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 2011.<\/p>\n “On Working Graveyard Shift” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, August 2011.<\/p>\n “A Guide to Binge Writing” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, May 2011. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Introduction” \u2013 Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia<\/i>, Woodland Press, October 2010.<\/p>\n “More on Amazon Rank Tracking and Ebook Sales” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 2010.<\/p>\n “iPad Review” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, June 2010.<\/p>\n “Reading in the 21st Century” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 2010.<\/p>\n “Tech Bits” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 2009.<\/p>\n “It’s All Part of the Fun: An Interview With Clive Barker” \u2013 Writers Workshop of Horror<\/i>, Woodland Press, August 2009. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Exploring Amazon” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, June 2009.<\/p>\n “Art and the Artist: An Interview With Clive Barker<\/a>” \u2013 Strange Horizons,<\/i> March 16, 2009. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Sprinting For The Deadline” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 2009. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “The Care and Feeding of a Convention Writing Workshop Track” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, October 2008. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Digital Power Controllers” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, October 2008.<\/p>\n “High-Performance, Energy-Efficient IGBTs” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, August 2008.<\/p>\n “Scratching the Seven-Year Itch” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, June 2008.<\/p>\n “Energy-Efficient Resonant Power Controllers” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, April 2008.<\/p>\n “Improving Data Center Efficiency” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, March 2008.<\/p>\n “Manuscript Tracking Tools” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 2008. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Integrated Power Switches” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, December 2007.<\/p>\n “Advice to Beginning Fiction Writers” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 2007. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Synergistic MOSFET Solutions” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, October 2007.<\/p>\n “A Brief Guide to Money Fairies” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, August 2007. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Selecting a Power-Entry Module” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, June 2007.<\/p>\n “How to Make A Living Writing Short Fiction” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, May 2007. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Why I Can’t Stay Out of My Husband’s Pants” \u2013 Sparks and Shadows<\/i>, HW Press, 2007.<\/p>\n “Understanding Mechatronics” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, April 2007.<\/p>\n “Meeting the Little Dragon” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 2007.<\/p>\n “Keep Your Stories Safe (Part 2)” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, November 2006.<\/p>\n “Technical Training for Working Engineers” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, November 2006.<\/p>\n “Keep Your Stories Safe” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, August 2006.<\/p>\n “Reducing Design Time” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, June 2006.<\/p>\n “Power over Ethernet: Chips and Chipsets” \u2013 Electronic Products<\/i>, May 2006.<\/p>\n “Meeting Mr. P. Espee” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, May 2006.<\/p>\n “Secret (Literary) Agent Man” \u2013 Speculative.ca, March 2006. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “Tools for the Wandering Writer ” \u2013 Horror World<\/i>, February 2006.<\/p>\n “Asia” \u2013 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,<\/i> Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/p>\n “Future Wars” \u2013 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,<\/i> Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/p>\n “Intelligence” \u2013 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,<\/i> Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/p>\n “Miniaturization” \u2013 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,<\/i> Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/p>\n “Dark Fantasy” \u2013 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,<\/i> Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/p>\n “Birds” \u2013 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,<\/i> Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/p>\n “Curses” \u2013 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,<\/i> Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/p>\n “Plants” \u2013 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,<\/i> Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/p>\n “Introduction” \u2013 Amityville House of Pancakes<\/i> Vol. 2, Creative Guy Publishing, 2005.<\/p>\n “Camp Songs: Innocent Fun or Diabolical Brainwashing Plot?” \u2013 Full Unit Hookup Magazine,<\/i> #7, Summer 2005. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “The Manhunt for the Red Dragon” \u2013 Full Unit Hookup Magazine,<\/i> #6, Winter 2004.<\/p>\n “Menstruation For Men” \u2013 Horror Quarterly,<\/i> #3, Autumn 2004. Reprinted in the Horror Quarterly Anthology<\/i>, 2005. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n “Jack the Ripper Revisted: Murder by Decree” \u2013 Full Unit Hookup Magazine,<\/i> #5, Spring 2004.<\/p>\n “Fairy Tales With Fangs: The Company of Wolves” \u2013 Full Unit Hookup Magazine,<\/i> #5, Spring 2004.<\/p>\n “The Portrayal of Scientists in Science Fiction<\/a>” \u2013 Strange Horizons<\/a>,<\/i> May 24, 2004.<\/p>\n “Finding or Creating a Writers’ Workshop Group” \u2013 Brady Magazine,<\/i> November\/December 2003. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “California Noir: The Salton Sea” \u2013 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,<\/i> November, 2003.<\/p>\n “Stripping in the Midwest”, Clean Sheets,<\/i> April 2003. Reprinted in Orchid Carousals<\/i> in 2013.<\/p>\n “The Poetry of Hill House”, What Walks Alone: A Creative Tribute to Shirley Jackson’s Novel The Haunting of Hill House,<\/i> Succubus Press, March 2002. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n Afterword: “An Interview With The Author”, Sorties, Cathexes, and Personal Effects<\/i>, Lone Wolf Publications, February 2003. Preprinted in the July 9, 2001 update of Strange Horizons.<\/i> Reprinted in Strange Horizons: The Best of Year One,<\/i> Lethe Press, September 2003.<\/p>\n “Ocean” \u2013 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,<\/i> Issue #6, May 2000. Reprinted in SALT<\/i>, Naked Snake Press, October 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines<\/i> in 2008.<\/p>\n “A Chat With William Peter Blatty”<\/a>, Dark Planet Webzine,<\/i> August 1999. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n “An Interview With Nancy Collins”, SF Site, February 1999.<\/p>\n “A Conversation With Neil Gaiman”,<\/a> SF Site, February 1999.<\/p>\n Review of Luz, The Art of Ciruelo<\/i><\/a> by Ciruelo Cabral, SF Site, 1997.<\/p>\n Review of Fair Peril<\/i><\/a> by Nancy Springer, SF Site, 1997.<\/p>\n Review of The Iron Ring<\/i><\/a> by Lloyd Alexander, SF Site, 1997.<\/p>\nNovels<\/h3>\n
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Novellas<\/h3>\n
\nA Lovecraftian round-robin tale co-written with Matthew Bartlett, Polly Schattel, Curtis M. Lawson, and Michael Alan Carlyle.<\/p>\n
\nAn urban fantasy co-written with Lara Adrian, Harry Connolly, Kelly Meding, and Stacia Kane.<\/p>\nCollections<\/h3>\n
\nA collection of horror and dark science fiction stories.<\/p>\n
\nA collection of dark speculative and mainstream poetry.
\nNominated for the 2022 Elgin Award. Nominated for the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
\nA collection of fiction and poetry set during autumn with a focus on Halloween.<\/p>\n
\nA collection of weird horror, fantasy and science fiction stories. Tales of Lovecraftian madness, unusual protagonists, and new twists on traditional monsters.
\nNominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection.<\/b><\/p>\n
\nA collection of horror, fantasy and science fiction stories.
\nWinner of the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection<\/b><\/p>\n
\nA collection of horror, dark fantasy and dark science fiction tales featuring the Bram Stoker Award-winning story “Magdala Amygdala”.
\nWinner of the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.<\/b><\/p>\n
\nA nonfiction book on successfully living and working as a writer in a world that often doesn’t value creative professionals.
\nWinner of the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction.<\/b><\/p>\n
\nA collection of speculative fiction erotica.<\/p>\n
\nIntroduction by Tom Piccirilli. A collection of 36 poems.
\nWinner of the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry<\/b><\/p>\n
\nA trade paperback collection of 12 humor stories about computers and the forces of evil.<\/p>\n
\nIntroduction by Nalo Hopkinson. A trade paperback collection of 17 cross-genre stories and 7 poems. Reprinted by CGP, May 2010. Introduction by Christopher Golden.
\nWinner of the 2008 Editors’ Choice Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Collection.<\/b><\/p>\nAs Editor<\/h3>\n
\nAn anthology of collaborative dark fiction co-edited with Michael Bailey. Nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology.<\/b><\/p>\nShort Fiction<\/h3>\n
\nFirst appeared in The Cackle of Cthulhu,<\/i> Baen Books, January 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Borderlands 7<\/i>,<\/i> Borderlands Press, November 2020. Reprinted in The Best of Abyss & Apex<\/em> (Vol. 4), Abyss & Apex Publishing, LLC, October 2021.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Cassilda’s Song<\/i>, Chaosium, August 2015. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015, in\u00a0Turn to Ash<\/i>, September 2016, and\u00a0Apex Magazine<\/i>, September 2017. Produced for Pseudopod<\/i><\/a>, December 22, 2017. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 8.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\nFirst published in Dark Faith: Invocations<\/i>, Apex Publications, October 2012. Produced for the Pseudopod<\/i> podcast, July 19, 2013. Reprinted in Mister October, Volume II<\/i>, Journalstone, 2013. Podcast by Tales to Terrify<\/i> on May 31, 2013. Reprinted in the April 2014 issue of Nightmare Magazine<\/i>; Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014; Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women<\/i>, Night Shade Books, May 2015; For Mortal Things Unsung<\/i>, Escape Artists Inc., March 2017. Supernatural Horror<\/i>, Flame Tree Publishing, June 2017. She\u2019s Lost Control,<\/em> Post Mortem Press, February 2019.
\nTranslated into Japanese in Night Land<\/i>, Trident House, September 2013. Translated into Czech in XB-1<\/i>, October 2015. Translated into Italian in Sogni del Diavolo<\/i>, Independent Legions Publishing, September 2015. Translated into Spanish in Dark Fantasies: Antolog\u00eda de Fantas\u00eda Oscura, Terror y Horror Internacional<\/i>, Sportula Publishing, May 2017.
\nReprinted in Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5<\/i>, <\/b>Night Shade Books, September 2013.
\nWinner of the 2012 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.<\/b><\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in What Fates Impose,<\/i> Alliteration Ink, September 2013. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014; Night Land Quarterly,<\/i> December 2016; Lost Souls,<\/i> Flame Tree Publishing, September 2018.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Looming Low,<\/i>\u00a0Dim Shores, September 2017. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Blood Magic,<\/i> Eggplant Literary Productions, October 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Chiral Mad 2<\/i>, Written Backwards, December 2013. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Steampunk Universe,<\/i> Alliteration Ink, January 2018. Reprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018. Reprinted in On Wings of Steam<\/em>, Winter Wolf Publications, May 2022.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Fictionvale<\/i>, March 2014. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in\u00a0Garden of Eldritch Delights<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Shadows Over Main Street<\/i>, Hazardous Press, January 2015. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 8.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\nHonorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 10.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\nHonorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 10.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\nHonorable mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 15.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Soft Apocalypses<\/i>, July 2014.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 “Dead Men Don’t Need Coffee Breaks”
\n\u00b7 “Business Insourcing Offers Life After Death”
\n\u00b7 “Corporate Vampires Sink Teeth Into Business World”
\n\u00b7 “Unemployed Playing Dead To Find Work”<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in While the Black Stars Burn,<\/i> Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.
\nHonorable mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 13.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\nGames<\/h3>\n
Poetry<\/h3>\n
\nFirst appeared in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Weirdbook #34<\/i>, February 2017. Reprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Halloween Season, 2020.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,<\/i> Issue #7, October 2000. Portions appeared in The Indifference of Heaven<\/i> by Gary A. Braunbeck (Obsidian Press, 2000). Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows<\/i> in 2007.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Chimeric Machines<\/i>, 2009.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock<\/i>, Dark Scribe Press, July 2011. Reprinted in Exposed Nerves<\/i>, 2021.<\/p>\nNonfiction\/Essays<\/h3>\n
\nFirst appeared in Nightmare Magazine<\/i>, October 2015.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally appeared in Writer’s Digest<\/i>, October 2018.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Writer’s Yearbook 2019<\/em>, November 2018.<\/p>\n
\nReprinted in Spacelore: A Short Story Collection<\/i> by Jacob Zimmerman, Modern Parlance Press, December 2015.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared at Horror World<\/i>, February 14, 2015.<\/p>\n
\nFirst appeared in Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction<\/i>, Headline Books, May 2011. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide<\/i> in June 2014.<\/p>\n