I was delighted to be invited to talk about Stephen King and his short story "The Man Who Loved Flowers" by Jason White, host of Short Bites: A Stephen King Podcast. We talked about when we first encountered Uncle Steve's work (I was eleven and...
I'll be at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival in Lawrence, MAon October 17 along with a great array of horror writers. I'll be selling books, talking to readers and having a blast with my writer friends. The event is free - so come on...
I had a great time talking with Jason White about "The Man who Loved Flowers," the Nightshift collection as a whole, more about Stephen King and writing in general. A neighbor kid gave me the book at the bus stop when I was eleven and...
After years of focusing on novels, I've returned to short stories with a vengeance, finishing Love - A Hate Story (Hunter S. Thompson does Dr. Doolittle in a Los Angeles crime spree), Mister Clean (desperate to make a buck, a down on his luck guy...
I've finished revisions on my latest novel, Good Dog, a violent, psychedelic road trip centered on a simple premise - set a serial killer to catch a serial killer. I've been altering between writing horror and crime fiction the last few years and this one...
I had a great time reading on September 9th alongside the great Jeffrey Ford at Ellen Datlow and Mett Kressel's reading series, Fantastic Fiction, held at the spooky old KGB Bar in the East Village. I read from a short story in process, "Love -...
I had a great time at the Brooklyn Books and Booze Author Book Fair in Industry City. Put on by author Randee Dawn (who also hosts the reading series), the event was a lot of fun, I met a bunch of readers and sold books...
Yes, yes, yes, there's another chance to revisit Archibald Leech in the works, that I expect will land on the shorter side of a novella. More info to come (though as I expect to have some exciting news about the new collection soon, the Leech...
I was pleased to see a new surge of interest in ALL THE TEETH IN THE WORLD at Necon and will be announcing a contest give away soon. From the back cover: “God?” “Not in the Biblical sense. An older sense.” Cat steadied her voice with...
I've finished the first draft of GOOD DOG, a violent, psychedelic road trip across a criminal American landscape bordering on the Twilight Zone. I'm aiming to have revisions done by June so I can begin sending it out over the summer. ...