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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 2006
Malcolm Reynolds and his bad luck with women
It was great seeing Nathan Fillion on Lost last night, playing Kate’s former husband in a flashback. Better known, perhaps, as Captain Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. He had a couple of pure Firefly moments in the episode—one when he was … Continue reading
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Picking up the pace
After today’s output, I’m almost up to a 1000-word-per-day pace for November to date, which isn’t bad considering I didn’t do any writing at all for almost half those days. I did something I rarely do yesterday, which is write … Continue reading
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Quota
To meet the NaNoWriMo goal of 50,000 words during November, a writer needs to average 1666 words per day. Thanks to my trip to Austin for World Fantasy last weekend, I missed out on the better part of four days’ … Continue reading
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Back from Austin
Well, the periphery of Austin, at least. I still can’t honestly say I’ve been to the state capital city. That’s the way it is with conferences. They might as well be held out in the middle of nowhere. I arrived … Continue reading
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I have a fantasy
…convention to go to this weekend. World Fantasy, to be exact. I’ll be hitting the road for Austin as soon as I’m done with my shoot/don’t shoot scenarios at the Citizen’s Police Academy tonight. Looking forward to it, though not … Continue reading
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Validation
And I hope someday they’ll say hooray for me — Bruce Hornsby We never get tons of trick-or-treaters, but they came sporadically throughout the evening until about 10 pm. At first I thought no one was going to come at … Continue reading
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