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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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Prepare to be boarded
Few things will wake you up as quickly in the morning as sitting down at your computer, which you’ve left on overnight, to find only a black screen. All the lights are on, but nobody’s home. I’m not sure what … Continue reading
This old House
Logged onto the local newspaper when I got up this morning. The current weather said “mist.” Loudest damned mist I’ve ever heard. We got a good soaking. Puddles in the yard, ditch nearly full to overflowing. Mist, indeed. I was … Continue reading
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And then the skies turned black
My wife called me the other morning on her way to work to say that she’d heard there was a tornado warning (not a watch, which is less urgent) for our county. About 10 minutes later, I got an automated … Continue reading
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At Last
I received my contributor copies of Cemetery Dance #65 in the mail last night. It’s been a while. Dear headline writers. “At Last Singer Etta James Dead” does not read to many people the way you intended. I hope next … Continue reading
Glass ceiling, race and gender
My review of Bag of Bones, which airs on Sunday and Monday on A&E, just went up on FEARNet. The WiFi on my iPad seems to be working again. At least on a different network it is more stable, so … Continue reading
Posted in CSI, Sons of Anarchy, Survivor
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Empty DVR
Join us at Bitten By Books today for the EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead chat and contest, starting at noon Central and running into the evening. The anthology authors will answer questions and there are Valuable Prizes at … Continue reading
Posted in Castle, Criminal Minds, CSI, Fringe, House, Law and Order: LA, Mentalist, movies, NCIS, Survivor
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Drum roll, please
The rainstorm yesterday afternoon was productive. About half an inch in some places. Enough to leave the front yard soggy. Not enough to end the drought. It’s supposed to be quite temperate this weekend. Lows in the fifties and highs … Continue reading
The slush pile
I received my contributor copy of Screem magazine yesterday. Haven’t had a chance to look at it in detail yet, but I plan to this weekend. The editor has invited me to write for them again, so now I have … Continue reading
Which way is out?
We had a stretch of fence between us and our neighbors replaced this week. It included a gate. When the workers were finishing up we went to survey the results. Fenced looked good, but the gate was installed backwards! The … Continue reading
Blew By You
Ended up having to proof two short stories. I received the proofs of “Red Planet” for Evolve 2 yesterday as well as the other story I mentioned previously. I got one of them finished and back to the editor this … Continue reading