Usually I keep my Wordpress and Livejournal and Dreamwidth blogs synchronized, so everybody can see everything I post, even if they prefer to just follow one blog platform. My reasons for doing this seem to be diminishing, as the number of people following Livejournal seems to be dwindling to almost nothing... but still, I don't want to tell people ( Read more... )

Many of the 22 short stories in Every House is Haunted, the debut collection by Ian Rogers, feel connected. As the title suggests, this is a book about hauntings, though the stories Rogers tells venture beyond the well-worn template of the haunted house tale. On top of this unifying theme, several stories also feature paranormal investigators, ( Read more... )

Die, You Donut Bastards is the latest collection of short fiction and prose poetry by Cameron Pierce. The whimsical title and cover art may suggest a mostly humorous approach to Bizarro, a genre which can range from arty surrealism to shock-focused extremity, and also at times encompassing more conventional storytelling with a subtler twinge of the ( Read more... )

Chick Bassist is Ross Lockhart's debut as a writer of fiction, after establishing himself as a fantasy and horror editor best known for two successful Lovecraftian "Book of Cthulhu" anthologies. Despite Lockhart's genre editing background, the only fantasy in Chick Bassist is of the rock-and-roll variety.



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Several things happening on the fiction writing front.

My story "The Lure of Devouring Light" in the latest Apex Magazine received a very favorable review in Locus Magazine (the SF/Fantasy trade journal) this week.

http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/#apex201304
If you haven't read "Lure of Devouring Light" yet, and are intrigued enough by the ( Read more... )

Fungi, edited by Orrin Gray and Silvia Garcia-Moreno, collects about two dozen weird and fantastic stories focused on the theme of fungus, including mushrooms, molds and a whole related class of bizarre life forms.

I expected mostly dark tales of decay and derangement, but many of the tales here turn out to be lighthearted, whimsical, even silly. ( Read more... )

"The Day and the Hour & Drone" is a short book (roughly novella length) containing two stories by Ennis Drake, whose debut novel 28 Teeth of Rage I reviewed previously. As in his debut, Drake's strength is his artful, powerful prose, as well as the confidence with which he evokes perceptual distortion, hallucination or possibly insanity on the ( Read more... )

I've seen a few writers link to this article about professional jealousy. It's just as applicable to aspiring musicians, artists, ballet dancers, astronauts, athletes and actors. Many of them (us) have lots of friends who are also "the competition," at least from a certain point of view.

Go read the post, then come back... I'll wait!

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My story "The Lure of Devouring Light" is now available in the April 2013 issue of Apex Magazine. I'm very proud and excited to have a story of mine appearing in such an excellent and prominent periodical ( Read more... )