Here are a couple of interesting things to read:

-  My story "Scent of Night" was published by Plasma Frequency Magazine, and you can read it here.

- We have the first part of a new novel excerpt by our very own msstacy13 up on Classically Educated.  It's about the last days of Mussolini, and you can read part 1 here (with the rest of the excerpt ( Read more... )

Over the long weekend, I received my contributor's copies of Undead and Unbound, which included my story "Thunder in Old Kilpatrick".  As you can probably guess, this is an undead-themed antho, well-produced, and I'm looking forward to seeing what my colleagues came up with ( Read more... )

Readers with incredibly long and detailed memories will recall that, a couple of years ago, I announced the sale of my story "Topside" to the Made You Flinch antho.  Well, the antho has cycled around to the top of my TBR pile and has duly been read ( Read more... )

Finished reading Fearology, edited by Bill Tucker, recently, where I share a ToC with the wonderful Camille Alexa, who used to be a regular around here, but has since disappeared.  This one contains my story "Back in the Fold ( Read more... )

I receive a tolerably good number of contributor's copies every year, which usually go into my TBR pile to be consumed at a later date (unlike many writers, I actually read the stories that appear alongside mine in anthos and mags, and I keep the whole volumes, not just cut sheets - it takes up a bit of space, but I definitely think it's worth it ( Read more... )

Seriously happy to announce the ToC for the forthcoming Undead and Unbound Antho from Chaosium. My story "Thunder in Old Kilpatrick" will be included, and the rest of the ToC is simply amazing.  Have a look:

Gary McMahon "Dead Baby Keychain Blues"

Cody Goodfellow "Blind Item"

Mercedes Murdock Yardley "A Personal Apocalypse"

Damien Walters Grintalis " ( Read more... )

Over the last few months, my wordcounts have been a bit low...  Well, I'm happy to report that January is correcting that trend.  I've been writing and subbing at a decent rate in 2012 so far.  Over the last two days I've written about 3000 words, and finished a horror SF story ( Read more... )

I'm not the right person to chime in on today's hot topic (the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs) because, while I do use Apple products like iPods, I was never really a huge fan.  I own two laptops, an Apple and a PC of similar power and vintage, and use the PC by choice.  This post is being written on the PC as the Apple lies idle... I'm not even ( Read more... )

Two excellent writerly things to announce.  The first is that my story "Beyond the Veil" (made readable by the amazing and extremely deep editorial input of Lyn Perry, even though he doesn't want to call it a collaboration due to the fact that he is the editor) has gone live on Fear and Trembling.  You can read it here.

I also read that the edition ( Read more... )

I know that the writing life is supposed to be full of sacrifice and rejection, but here I am, reporting my second sale in two days.  I may get blacklisted for being such a Pollyana (especially because more good news is forthcoming)...

The Library of Horror got in touch with me on Monday to tell me that they'll be including my story "Topside" in the ( Read more... )