• This week saw the release of Blood Rites: An Invitation to Horror from the most excellent horror publisher Blood Bound Books (Available in both print and ebook format although I’ve only linked to the Kindle). This is not my first publication with them. No, that would be Rock ‘N’ Roll is Dead which I’ve written

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  • This is one bit of advice writers get a lot: Write what you love and the rest will take care of itself. There are many variations on that, of course, but the core message is, don’t try to be what others want you to be. Be true to yourself and follow your own dreams. It’s

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  • There are few things like not having money to make a person into a “value shopper.” For example, kids with a limited allowance who depend on every precious nickle to feed their candy addiction. When I was a kid, a whole candy bar was maybe 50 cents, but damned if there aren’t times when a

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  • It’s the end of year and it seems everyone is putting together a year-end retrospective. And why not? I suppose the end of the year is as good a time as any to reflect on what has come before and where things are headed now. I had anticipated the year to be focused on the

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  • Let’s talk the impact of geography on influences for a bit, shall we? Let’s take Blues for an example. From the outside, it’s easy to look at the musical form of Blues as just a blanket term, but within that category things are much more fine-grained. For instance, you have Chicago blues, which has a

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  • The Next Big Thing

    Last Wednesday I was tagged for “The Next Big Thing” by the supremely talented and gracious Folly Blaine. 10 questions. 10 answers. It’s about to get real up in here, people! 1) What is the working title of your next book? INK CALLS TO INK 2) Where did the idea come from for the book?

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  • Going to Keep This Short…

    I’m gonna let my geek flag fly here for a bit, so if that’s not your scene, keep on moving. There we go.  We’re alone in here? Good. When I was 12, I played Dungeons & Dragons for the very first time. My character was a Dwarven Paladin, which turned out to be against the

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  • You’re looking at the business end of a Wunderbar, one of many candy treasures I brought back from Canada for, um, research purposes. I don’t write candy bars that often, but the Canada trip offered me the chance to try some new stuff, and I jumped at it. Take a good look at that picture.

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  • It’s been far too long since my last post. That’s kind of a thing for me, it seems. Thank y’all for your patience. In the time since my last post I met some of my idols and a whole mess of new and amazing people in person for the first time at the World Fantasy

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  • Reason for the Season

    Halloween is around the corner. As a kid, it was my favorite holiday. Sure, Christmas was nice, but it didn’t involve costumes. Plus, we were cut loose to wander the streets on a crisp fall night to take candy from strangers. What’s not to love? As I got older, my appreciation of the holiday grew,

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