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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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Country Strong
I finished reading Other People We Married by Emma Straub this morning. Very well written literary stories, mostly about unhappy people in bad relationships who are on the verge of making decisions about how to change their situations. Reminded me a … Continue reading
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Madness is what genius looks like to a tiny mind
We spent the weekend in a beachfront house in Surfside, Texas, which is on the Gulf of Mexico about 45 miles down the coast from Galveston. This is our fourth trip to that community, and our third staying in the … Continue reading
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Forget the original: just get a good copy
Yesterday I got all my rewrites done on the first 7000 words of the novella in progress to change one event and propagate its impact through the rest of the story. The way people react to a disappearance is perforce … Continue reading
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Penguin -> Peahen
Some days are lost to writing because you have to look after real life every now and then. Spent most of yesterday running around getting my car tended to. It’s not something I have to do very often, given that … Continue reading
There is hope in raindrops
Poked around at the novella renovation that I want to do next, but not much forward progress yet. Rewrote a couple of pages, updated them to a more contemporary setting and technology (the story was inspired by a very creepy … Continue reading
What do you do when you lose? Party harder!
I was in high school the year of the incident at Three Mile Island. Though it was all over the news at the time, it seemed a long ways off. Over a thousand miles, in fact. However, at the end … Continue reading
No bucks, no Buck Rogers
Finished the first draft of the essay that’s due in a few weeks. 5000 words, though who’s counting? I wasn’t given an upper limit. I suspect it’s going to grow a bit on my first round of revisions, then perhaps … Continue reading
Unstoppable
After a few more review passes, I submitted the newest short story to the editor. It was a little bit presumptuous, but just a little. This is for an invitation-only anthology and one of the other contributors asked me to … Continue reading
Make sure they spell my name right
Almost finished doing the taxes and looking forward to a refund, which is always nice. Listening to Split Enz and getting ready for a productive day of writing. The plan: finish first draft of short story, revise proposal, get two … Continue reading
Brief notes
A nice review of When the Night Comes Down from Mario Guslandi at Horror World. I’ll answer to Ben, if you like. I wrote to the Canadian Archives in Ottawa sometime last year to get copies of one of my uncle’s … Continue reading