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I am the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
My short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. In 2010, four of my stories were collected in When the Night Comes Down and my story "The Bank Job" won the Al Blanchard Award.
I am a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. I also write book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
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Monthly Archives: January 2005
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The Road to the Dark Tower will be published in The Netherlands on April 16th by Luitingh Sijthoff as Het Pad Naar De Donkere Toren. DT7 will be released on the same day. The Dutch Stephen King fan site is … Continue reading
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Why endings are sometimes not as well written as beginnings
This may be pure and utter B.S., so feel free to disregard. While I was in the shower this morning, where I do some of my best thinking, I developed a theory that the reason why story endings are sometimes … Continue reading
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One click
Technology has enabled us to make bigger and better mistakes more quickly. I use one of those little USB memory sticks for backups of works in progress. They’re great–no moving parts, so they’re less likely to corrupt on you like … Continue reading
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What it takes to make me happy
Over the last two months, I haven’t written much new. As far as fiction goes, practically zilch. I’ve been editing like a sonuvabitch (see below), and there has been some new content involved with those revisions, but it’s not the … Continue reading
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813.54 VIN
What’s this? The guy goes days–weeks even–without posting to his LJ and now two posts in a few hours? Well, I’ll admit, the first post was made out of guilt. I didn’t really know what I was going to write … Continue reading
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Punting
An interesting word, that. To people wrapped up in the NFL post-season it means one thing. To those bearing a long pole loitering near an inviting river, it means something completely different. I rarely pay much attention to football. There’s … Continue reading
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Lightening the load
A couple of years ago, I would probably have sworn to you that I’d never do this. It’s funny how our thinking on things can change. I started staring at one of the bookshelves in our living room a month … Continue reading
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Coming back to life
Time to wake up and get back to business. What with three trips to Canada in the six weeks, I didn’t get much done with my writing. I carried the manuscript of Missing Persons with me each time I traveled, … Continue reading
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I’m usually a fairly private person
Though I enjoy talking about the things that happen in my writing life, I rarely go into details of my private life on this journal or on my message board or anywhere else online. I might mention something in passing, … Continue reading
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