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How’s My Hair? reading Yep, two readings in the same week. This time in a bookstore, which in ...
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Flashover out in paperback! It's here, y'all. Last week I posted about my new novel, Flashover, and its ...
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$@!# Authors Say (and play) Come downtown and enjoy some double-threat entertainment from yours truly and friends at this ...
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Flashover e-books on sale For you digital adopters, an early release of my new novel, Flashover, is now ...
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Noir Reading and Pics Now that my liver and brain cells have had a chance to regenerate after ...
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Presenting . . . Winebox! // Word on the grapevine is that I've got a new musical duo for ...
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Andrez Bergen Interview I recently had a chance to throw some questions at Andrez Bergen, the author ...
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AWP 2012 – Chicago Getting excited now. Just two short weeks until The Association of Writers and Writing ...
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Noir at the Bar Sorry I've been slow with updates around here lately, but I assure you that ...
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LA1K My short story "Fry Girl" (my personal favorite of those I've written) ...
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I’ve added a new section to the site for microfiction. Also known as very short stories (posted to my Twitter feed as #vss or sometimes #storystarters) or hint fiction, these are usually meant to suggest a story to the reader rather than actually tell one. It’s an interactive experience where the reader can’t help filling ...
Northwest Alumni feature
The fall issue of Northwest, the alumni magazine of my alma mater Northwest Missouri State University (where I earned my degree in Mass Communication in 1995) contains a short feature on yours truly. Click the article to enlarge, or the cover to browse the entire Issuu via NWMSU’s site.
Warmed and Bound on Kindle
The Kindle Edition of the year’s hottest collection, Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology is now available for immediate download from Amazon.com at $7.95. ePub is coming soon. Of course, you can still order it online in paperback (408 pp) from Amazon, Powell’s, or Barnes & Noble as well. A great deal of care was ...
Booked interview
Robb Olson and Livius Nedin from Booked were kind enough to invite me to take part in their author interview podcast series today. In fact, their last couple of weeks’ episodes have been devoted to the Warmed and Bound Sessions, speaking to my fellow contributors in this killer anthology. We talk about my story “Headshot,” ...
The Velvet Podcast 016
Episode 016: Great Writers Edit; Bad Writers Discuss Editing on a Podcast is now online, part of The Velvet Podcast series. Joining me on this panel are authors Gavin Pate (The Way to Get Here), Richard Thomas (Transubstantiate), and moderator Caleb J. Ross (Stranger Will).We discuss the editing of prose fiction, detailing our own processes, ...
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