UPDATED: 7/26/14

Who knew launching a book took so much time? In case you've missed updates to my "The Sword Speaks" campaign, which introduces you to the world of HERITAGE ahead of the book's release next Wednesday, 7/30, you can get caught up here.

* Day 1: What is HERITAGE?
* Day 2: Interview with Lili Ibrahim, cover artist for HERITAGE
* Day ( Read more... )

Hazardous Press has published the TALES OF THE BLACK ARTS anthology of dark-fantasy short stories, which includes my contribution, "The Aggrieved." You can buy it in paperback or on Kindle. Here's a (very) short teaser:

After witnessing his father kill his mother in a drunken frenzy, Viktor becomes consumed with hate and turns to black magic to ( Read more... )

After a longer-than-intended delay, I present chapter 2 from my upcoming short story, "The Aggrieved." You can read chapter 1 HERE to get up to speed. Enjoy!

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When I was a kid, my mom had one rule for Christmas morning: wait until AT LEAST 6:00 am before waking up the house. Anticipation woke me around 515, 530 every year. Minutes oozed into seconds, dragging out like chewing game stretched between teeth and fingers. As the minute-hand crawled along, I remember happiness swelling up in my chest, building ( Read more... )

Over the past couple of days, I've received requests from the Shacknews community to help some indie game developers within our ranks document the process of developing their games. I did not initiate these, and was very flattered to be mentioned specifically as a go-to guy for writing about games.

If you've read STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN or the ( Read more... )

This past December, Hazardous Press accepted " The Aggrieved," my dark-fantasy short story, for publication in its upcoming TALES OF THE BLACK ARTS anthology. My contribution is a "short story" in the nominal sense of the word. It runs between 40-45 pages or so, which I broke into bite-sized chapters to keep the length manageable ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I posted about receiving the uncorrected proof of HERITAGE. I shared the news with Shacknews, the only online community to which I belong, and one poster asked a series of excellent and interrelated questions: What makes the novel young adult? The level of reading comprehension, content (no extreme sex/violence)- length? What kind of ( Read more... )

I get so caught up in deadlines and guidelines for my writing projects as well as those I complete for freelance clients that I'm often too tired to transfer idle thoughts to paper. Sunday Blogday is a new weekly column of sorts which I'll use to share whatever random topic's been bouncing through my brain. I just crank these out without editing; ( Read more... )

After a three-month hiatus, I've resumed reviewing mobile games for Touch Arcade. I took time off because I had other freelance work piling up, and because SAAL's launch was exhausting. Mostly, though, I needed a new phone. Apple's execrable annual refresh cycle aged my iPhone 4 before its time, and games just weren't running well enough for me to ( Read more... )

Pro WrestlingIf I could do it all over again, I would become a professional wrestler and give the fans a "once (or twice) in a lifetime" match against The Rock, one of my idols in and out of the ring, at WrestleMania. Or maybe not. I hate exercise as much as I love the idea of grappling with Kurt Angle and talking trash on the microphone while The ( Read more... )