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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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The next one is coming faster
I’m not quite sure what it means if the groundhog predicts 6 more weeks of winter when we haven’t really had any to speak of thus far. It’s been over 70° and flirting with 80 for the past several days, … Continue reading
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
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
Bad things are fixin’ to happen
The week after a con is always a busy one, just scrambling to get back to where I was before I left. I don’t think I’m going to get any writing done this week. I have to read about 40 … Continue reading
What do you call a duel between three people? A trial?
With World Horror less than a week today, there’s lots of business to do to keep me busy (and away from writing as much as I’d like). I’ll be leaving for Austin on Wednesday to get there in time for … Continue reading
A National Treasure
I started revising the section of the novella in progress that needs changing to come into line with my new theory of the story this morning, but I was interrupted by some business that required my attention so I didn’t … Continue reading
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Pick the devil you run with
Two or three weeks ago I received a letter from Elections Canada telling me I was being dropped from the registration list. Two days ago I received my voting package for the forthcoming election. Mixed message? Do I dare vote? … 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
On the corner of black and white
Unexpectedly cool these past couple of days. Barely into the seventies and down to the low fifties at night. I know not many people will sympathize, but after a few days in the 80s when we had to run the … Continue reading
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A Flea in Her Ear
I skipped my morning writing session today. Didn’t plan to, but a few minutes before the alarm went off at 5 a.m. I reset it to 6:30. I normally catch up on sleep on the weekend but I have to … Continue reading
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