Thank you to Meerkat Press for hosting the joint launch of The Bridge and J.Ashley Smith’s Ariadne: I love you.
Thanks to all who attended, asked questions and got our over-caffeinated answers and congratulations to Andrea Teare for winning the swag.
I’m bogged down on page 124 of 300 pages of what was meant to be a quick copy edit and has morphed into a bigger than the Black Lagoon rewrite. Why? How many novels do I have to write before I can call it quits after, ooo I dunno, eight drafts? Instead of eight hundred?…
“The open book lay flat between us, with the picture staring repulsively upward. As the old man whispered the words, “more of the same” a tiny spattering impact was heard, and something shewed on the yellowed paper of the upturned volume. I thought of the rain and of a leaky roof, but rain is not…
A body-swap story inspired by Shelley, not just Frankenstein, but also “The Transformation,” a tale I read a while ago and which really got me by the throat. What I love about the story is that the Doppelganger and the protagonist get all mixed up in the end, bits of one left behind in the…
In the next couple of hours/days I’ll be posting some reviews, interviews and just general stuff about Collision, my new collection of stories and a novella out from Meerkat Press. For now though, thanks are due to Meerkat Press, especially Tricia Reeks, who is as smart and unstoppable as they come. Matthew Bialer, I literally…
You can view the full list here. Lots of friends, colleagues, idols on the short list, including Karron Warren’s brilliant novella Into Bones Like Oil, also from Meerkat. I just keep looking at my name alongside Nathan Ballingrud’s, Brian Evenson’s (both of whose collections are among my most treasured rereads) and under hers—Shirley’s herself. My…
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