CAGE OF BONES reviewed in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine!

TWO SALES TO REPORT: A story I wrote specifically for the Twilight Tales anthology Freaks, Geeks and Other Sideshow Floozies has been accepted for the book. “…And Then Some” will hit the streets when Freaks debuts at the 2002 World Horror Convention. I also recently placed a story called “The Strong Will Survive” in Space and Time magazine. Look for that to appear in a year or so. In other news…I’ve survived the first two…

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WHC 2002 Program Book Editor… that’s me!

SEATTLE MAY BE just a memory now, but Chicago looms just around the corner. Yep, the 2002 World Horror Convention is in my backyard, and over the summer I volunteered to help out with its organization. Consequently, this weekend I found myself sitting down with a spreadsheet figuring out what will be appearing in the souvenir program book for the con…and who will write it! WHC 2002 Program Book Editor, that’s my new title! I’m…

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World Horror Convention 2001 – Seattle

SEATTLE’S WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2001 has come and gone. Can it really be over already? I’m gonna miss names and events, I know, but here’s my scattershot recollections of a loaded weekend, more for my own future memory benefit than anyone else’s. Thanks to Sephera Giron, Judi Rohrig, David Norhaus and Monica J. O’Rourke for catching me on camera during some key moments of the con, and allowing me to post those pix here! FRIDAY,…

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CAGE OF BONES and “Bloodroses” Made the Stoker Preliminary Ballot

HAVEN’T UPDATED IN awhile, sorry! For those wondering about what’s gone on since early February, my reading at Twilight Tales in February went well — I read “Dead Girl At The Side of the Road” from Cage of Bones and Other Deadly Obsessions. I sold a couple copies of the book that night too! Over the past couple months I’ve also appeared at a book signing at Evanston, IL’s Stars Our Destination bookstore and placed…

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A plug from Charlee Jacob

I JUST WAS READING an interview with Charlee Jacob on the Twilight Showcase website and saw that she gave me a plug!! The showcase asked her: Among the newer voices in fiction, who do you enjoy reading? and she responded: “Tom Picirilli, Gerard Houarner, Lucy Taylor, John Everson, Kurt Newton, Steve Beai, many more.” I felt so honored because I love Charlee’s work! Read the entire interview at www.twilightshowcase.com/jacob.htm. I’m now just a week away…

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New Year, new fiction!

A NEW YEAR already? Seems hard to believe. And all the vacation time I took around the holidays aimed towards polishing off two different novel drafts seemed to just evaporate. I ended up only producing a couple of short stories and never got near the books. On the positive side, last week I was invited to be the guest on a Writer-To-Writer chat through AOL. The transcript of that session is now available through iUniverse.…

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