VANDAL drops

VANDAL drops

Vandal: Stories of Damage, dropped on Tuesday 21 Feb! Live launch to come but you can look at some of the Facebook Event activity here. Thank you to Crystal Lake Publishing, and to Team V: Aaron Dries and Kaaron Warren. And to all the readers and fans out there who are buying and raving about…

Winter Haunts Workshop

Winter Haunts Workshop

I’ll be running a workshop called Writing Horror With Heart as part of Alex Davis’s Winter Haunts Event, on November 6, a day of panels, workshops and talks about ghosts and ghost stories and the supernatural. Hope to see you there!

This is Horror – finally.

  So I’ve been a fan of this show for years – I even wrote about it at Volume 1: Brooklyn and now I’m on it. You want a show that covers craft, art, suffering, conferences, story, inspiration, desperation, awards, missing out on awards, revision, publishing, self-publishing—this is it. Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Angela…

Review of “Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories,” and Gamut sale

My review of Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories is over at LitReactor. Neat collection, lots of stories and images that linger. Couldn’t really name a favorite, because of the breadth of styles and subject matter, loosely connected around the idea of naked souls bared to elements not always of this world, but I have to say…