Almost a year ago, I was approached by Gerald Rice and asked if I’d like to be in an anthology. I hesitated. At the time he didn’t have a lot of details but he managed to convince me that it would work out and everyone would leave happy. He told me who is was for and I did a little digging. Then I had to submit a writing sample (!) and then ( Read more... )

A very short story of mine appears in a Kindle-only edition of “Speculative Valentine Drabbles 2015“, edited by Roy C Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes.

I’m a short fiction writer at heart, and while I adore the short form, drabbles are probably my favorite mind exercise. Drabbles are exactly 100 words. Some editors include the title in that word count ( Read more... )

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... )

I took a break from sub­mit­ting over the past year to dive into the movie and work on other cre­ative endeav­ors.  While I dive back into heavy writ­ing, I’ve been sub­mit­ting pre­vi­ous pub­lished sto­ries to var­i­ous places and came up with a hit early on. I’m not one to sub­mit to ezines, in fact this is my first, but you know the right fit ( Read more... )

14 things I need to remember while I get back into the groove of screenwriting:

• The sky’s the limit because you haven’t seen a budget.
• The producer probably isn’t going to let you break an actress’ teeth with a shovel but you can write the scene anyway.
• Christopher Walken doesn’t work for scale so stop trying to write him in.
• When you know you’ll be ( Read more... )

Back in 2005, I was a unpub­lished writer scour­ing list­ings for places to sub­mit. I’d been actively sub­mit­ting my short sto­ries to all sorts of mar­kets, mostly mag­a­zines I knew or had heard good things about. In a des­per­ate reach I punched into Google “hor­ror sub­mis­sions short story“and lo and behold saw a call for sub­mis­sions to a ( 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... )

No, I’m not doing link)','caption', 'National Novel Writers Month' );">NaNo, but I am finishing up some short stories and loose ends to close out a few notebooks.


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So in two weeks I’ll be kicking it Olde Skool with my peeps in GLAHW and lots of new friends at Kennedy’s Irish Pub for our Annual Monster Mash for Literacy Bash on October 23, 2010 - what, you missed the announcement?

The very next day, I’ll be at AJ’s Cafe in Ferndale for the Bad Alien Night Variety Show, sponsored by Bad Alien Design Guitar and ( Read more... )

October has been one of those months that pass in a blur. The Boobiethon, the Monster Mash for Literacy Bash, and a podcast have kept me away from my most favorite endeavors - talking about me.

Fear not, Faithful Reader - I have pics, and tales, and updates to share.

Just not right now because it's late and I am sleepy.

However go take a gander ( Read more... )