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Gas Up the Stair Car I was gonna do this whole post about evolving media distribution, and how I ...
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Books and Booze LIVE in STL That's right, having just celebrated their first anniversary as a podcast, the Books and ...
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AWP 2013 — Boston Usually, this is where I would regale you with tales of torporific panels led ...
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“Speed Ramp” story at Word Riot The February 2013 issue of Word Riot features my flash-fiction* story "Speed Ramp," about ...
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“The Sacred and Profane” I wouldn't usually devote an entire post to one measly little song, but I'm ...
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Leah Rhyne interview Leah Rhyne, author of the Undead America series, lowered her Louisville Slugger and caught ...
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OW III interview The former Outsider Writers Collective recently torched their old site and, rising from its ...
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Noir at the Bar Vol. 2 My short story, "Untitled Stephenie Meyer Novel" (originally published in the Oprah Read This ...
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Telecine column at ManArchy I'm contributing semi-regularly to a new column at ManArchy Magazine called Telecine. The term ...
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Booked Podcast reviews Flashover Normally I wouldn't give every review its own post, but this is a really ...
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Video: Winebox and fiction reading Czar Bar, Kansas City, 5/24/12 ("$@!# Authors Say" event). To warm things up, Winebox ...
More Information...“Shivaree” story at ManArchy
Just in time for Halloween, ManArchy staff authors contributed a week’s worth of quick scary/spooky stories to set the mood and prickle your nape hairs in this witching season. Mine’s called “Shivaree” and warns about getting nosy with some noisy neighbors. Look for other flash-length frights from Richard Thomas, Chris Deal, Bob Pastorella, Michael Paul ...
Books and Booze interview
Books and Booze Episode 6 Combining two of my favorite things into one of my favorite new podcasts. Sensing that some of their former guests (though entertaining and knowledgeable) had been far too sober given its namesake, for my appearance this week, I took it upon myself to lower my inhibitions, articulation, grammatical skill, and ...
“‘Burgatory” story at Solarcide
“No matter where you live in New York City, you always end up in Queens.” Opening lines always shoulder a lot of weight (and disproportionate thought). This one I pocketed from a pilot announcement as we were descending into LaGuardia, cemetery plots dominating the landscape out my window. Which later inspired the concept of a ...
The Soul Consortium
I can’t remember the last time I read a sci-fi novel (not a big genre reader in general, aside from crime fiction). Even with films and television, my sci-fi tastes always lean to character-driven stuff, like Gattaca, BSG, Children of Men, etc., where the technology is downplayed in favor of human drama. Simon West-Bulford’s The ...
LitReactor Book Club: Flashover
The readers and writers at the excellent LitReactor have chosen my novel Flashover for discussion in their community forum next month. I’ll be lurking in the shadows and answering some questions as they go, then participating more actively later in the month once all the spoilery stuff is out of the way. The details, lifted ...
