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A Year of Distance Sleep is now a three-hour event. Twice per night on good ones, many aimless ...
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Music from Larkspur Underground – free download Last year, I scored the serialized horror podcast Larkspur Underground, written and produced by ...
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Scoring “Larkspur Underground” podcast Visitors to my Music page know I've produced many tracks for multimedia. Theme songs, spot ...
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“Songs I Wrote in the ’80s” music video This one takes my previous video, "Antidote," to the next level: a logical progression ...
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“Antidote” music video With my Finding the Light album release this week, I figured I should preview ...
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Album cover revealed! Here it is! She's a beaut, eh? The artwork comes from the illustrious brush ...
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Solarcidal Tendencies This anthology contains my short story "'Burgatory" originally published at Solarcide a few years ...
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Major Inversions audiobook Remember my debut novel from back in 2009? Ever wanted to cut out the ...
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LitReactor Community Spotlight I'm the focus of this month's Community Spotlight over at the excellent LitReactor, profiled ...
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Submission Windows released! Prison bars. Stained church glass. Deadlines precursing rejection. These are Submission Windows: vantage points ...
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The Tobacco-Stained Sky A couple of years ago, I read Andrez Bergen’s excellent post-apocalyptic sci-noir novel Tobacco-Stained ...
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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...Finding the Light – album preview
Now that Finding the Light has been mixed and mastered, here’s a six-minute sampler with a little from each track. Intrigued? I’m anxious for you to take the entire 50-minute journey, because so far only two people have heard it: the mastering engineer and cover artist (the only two roles I delegated). My next post—very soon—will […]
Album Progress
My lack of recent updates is because historically most of them have been literary, and I’m on hiatus from that world for a bit. (I will, however, be hanging in Minneapolis during AWP, eager to let you buy me drinks.) My stack of unread books grows monthly, as I’ve barely cracked a spine since last […]
Important Question? podcast
What would convince you to eat another human being? This is our first topic on a new must-listen podcast: Important Question? where we explore and debate such taboos with the profundity and absurdity and hilarity they warrant. Ensuing episodes will examine other grey areas soaking in our collective grey matter, like, I dunno … ruining […]
On Rating Books
You may have noticed that I read a lot of four- and five-star books. That’s not me being generous with my ratings, it’s because most were prequalified recommendations from those whose tastes I trust. Neo-noir, crime fiction, southern gothic, literary fiction: these are my preferred genres. I have little interest right now in young adult, […]
Book Layout Tips
The rise of self-publishing means more authors are taking on unfamiliar roles, with mixed results. To put it kindly. I’ll leave the marketing/promotion advice to others, but one aspect I can speak to with some authority is design. I’ve designed all three of my own books, assisted with several others, and worked on a ton […]