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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: November 2005
The lengths to which some people will go
So, I’m working on this NaNoWriMo-fueled novel, which I won’t finish before the end of the month, but I’m 75,000 words in, so I think that’s okay. I’ve set the story in a part of the world I’m only loosely … Continue reading
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Come chat with me tonight
I’m the guest of the Biting Dog Press sponsored chat hosted by the Utah public library system tonight. 7 pm Mountain Time, 8 pm Central, 9 pm East Coast http://www.sff.net/people/pff/chatpages/SLCoLib.htm C’mon along!
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The finished product
Cemetery Dance just posted a page with photographs of the completed limited edition of The Road to the Dark Tower. Check out the extremely cool Glenn Chadbourne artwork. The signature page is especially classy, in my opinion. We will begin … Continue reading
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Shiver Me Timbers
Cemetery Dance Publications announced today the release of the fourth in their popular annual SHIVERS anthology series. I’m happy to say that my story, “The Deer of St. Bart’s” will be in SHIVERS IV along with the following: “Prohibited” by … Continue reading
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New reviews
A good weekend of writing. Over 61,000 words on the current novel, which now has the working title The Silent Desert. This is a fairly recent change, and I’m not sure I’ve adjusted to it yet, and it may well … Continue reading
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Goal accomplished
Nanowrimo’s goal—not mine. I reached the 50,000 word mark on my new novel this morning. But the story doesn’t end there. I have at least 25,000 words left to go, I think. Still 13 days remaining in the month. I … Continue reading
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I’ve been a writing fool
I’ve been on vacation for a week (didja miss me?) but I wasn’t sitting idly on the beach twiddling my thumbs and altering my DNA. Okay, so I did a little of that. It was my tenth wedding anniversary, so … Continue reading
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Creeping along
Nearing the 9000 word point on the novel in progress. Though I am calling it West of the Pecos as a document, I can’t bring myself to refer to it as that even as a working title. But it will … Continue reading
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Life of Brian
The subject is apropos of nothing, except CBC 1 is playing the finale song as I type this entry. My NaNoWriMo novel got off to a rousing start, and so far I’m keeping pace with my goal, and then some. … Continue reading
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