07 Nov 2023 Audio vagueposting
And some audiobook goodness is in the works as I plug away on draft 1 of The Devil Himself. More news on this project soon!...
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06 Oct 2023 The Answer is 42
4200 words this first week of diving into THE DEVIL HIMSELF in earnest. Considering I also decided to start lifting again and my oft-injured carcass is a mass of protest, I'll take it. I'm a panster, not a plotter, but I know exactly how this...
01 Oct 2023 NEXT BOOK NEWS
It's official. After a long break in between, I'm writing the conclusion to the Libros de Inferno trilogy which began with DEAD MEN, continued with NIGHT ROADS and will finish with...
16 Aug 2023 BOUCHERCON
Bouchercon is almost upon us! This will be my first, but I've known of the event for decades after Max Allen Collins set one of his Mallory novels at the con. I'll share schedule information soon. ...
16 Aug 2023 BEAST
Alrighty then, it looks like out of the two projects competing for focus, the horror novella/novel BEAST has moved ahead of the heist novel DOG PARK. It's speaking to me with a clear and surprising voice and I'm excited to learn more about the eleven...
26 Jun 2023 DOG PARK
Out of the three stories vying for primacy, DOG PARK has taken the lead and I have 9k words written. The Birthing House novel and untitled "vampire on a train" short story will have to bide a bit. DOG PARK can loosely be described as...
06 Jun 2023 Who let the dogs out?
As so often happens, while trying to develop a few different ideas to see if they had legs, an entirely different idea sprang forth and demanded to be heard. Today I wrote the first few pages of the heist novel, DOG PARK. ...
11 May 2023 Hate House is Alive!
More details will be coming soon, but I'm very happy to share that my psychological horror novel HATE HOUSE will be published by the cool folks at Encyclopocalypse. THIS was the contract I signed while killing time at the San Antonio airport. I deliberately challenged...
11 May 2023 Airports and Contracts and Colds, oh my
I seem to have survived the recent post-conference cold, a real nasty bug (but not Covid!) So what's been happening? The day before flying to TX for the Ghoulish Book Festival, I sent off the novella Final Boy to a publisher who was waiting for it....