I’m still coming down from the Great Genealogy Hunt in Alabama (which is being written in exhaustive chunks), but the feels have remained warm and happy.

In the last two weeks, I’ve been a featured selfie on an HWA site -  I’ve been accepted in a drabble anthology (which you can pre-order), and another anthology I’ll be in was announced for pre- ( Read more... )

Or pretty unpopular - that works too.

My biggest fear when giving presentations or editing and publishing, like when I train at work, is that I come off a little hard. Writers don’t like that approach - we’re fragile creatures and we all want to be told that ONE DAY WE’LL BE ESTABLISHED, WELL-PAID AUTHORS.

*YAY*

I presented last in the writer’s ( Read more... )

Tis the season for anthology deadlines and convention prep, and I never seem to have enough time to devote to either properly.  It is for this reason I always have a few stories in various stages of undress ready to be rescued from the Whoretown of my Pending File.

This year’s anthology theme is Phobias and Superstitions, and I knew I had the ( Read more... )

As we move into the last year of the Human Era, I believe that it’s important to keep track of every single day to make it memorable, or at least draw a big red X through it

In this vein of doom and budding selfless charity, I present to you the 2012 GLAHW Horror Calendar - 12 months of homage to our favorite horror movie posters. Proceeds benefit ( Read more... )

This seems to be one of those s00pr sekrits I had no idea I was keeping.

The annual anthology of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers is out, Erie Tales: Tales of the Apocalypse/Resurrection Mary, and wee me has two new stories inside.

For the Apocalypse, I have a Western (I know!) entitled Caliente, and the Resurrection Mary tale was ( Read more... )

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I don’t even know where to begin with this day.

Lots of images in my head from the time link)','caption', 'Uber Cat' );">Loki walked across my stomach at 6 this morning until right now as I listen to my Tigers crush the Oakland A’s.

Coffee and a few bites of German Chocolate ( Read more... )