IT’S BEEN A GREAT week for my mailbox! I received my contributor’s copies of the new Canadian TransVersions anthology, which puts my short story “Calling of the Moon” in the company of fiction by Nebula Award winners Robert J. Sawyer and Bruce Holland Rogers. The book also includes fiction and…
JUST IN TIME FOR Friday the 13th AND Halloween, Delirium Books has released Cage of Bones and Other Deadly Obsessions, a hardcover collection of my more extreme short horror fiction — both new and previously published — with the interior color art shown here. You can read all about it and…
IT’S BEEN ABOUT two weeks now since I hopped a plane to Denver to attend my first World Horror Convention. I’ve put off writing about it, because I had no idea how to summarize it into a couple of paragraphs. But the memories are already fading, so here’s a go…
MY FIRST “BUG MUSIC” column for Talebones is now out in issue #18. Of course, that means it’s time to sit down and write the next one <G>. Today I saw the first rough illustration ideas for the inside cover of my fiction collection, Cage of Bones and Other Deadly…
I FINALLY SENT IN my registration and made my plane reservations this past week for the May 2000 World Horror Convention in Denver. I’m pretty excited — this is only going to be the second national convention I’ve attended (the first was the 1997 World Fantasy Convention here in…
THE YEAR 2000 is shaping up to be my most exciting year yet, publishing-wise. I have new short stories due out in the final issue of Crossroads magazine, The Edge , Hourglass Fiction, CyberPsycho’s AOD and BloodMoon Zine. A new magazine called Dead Moon Tales will be reprinting one of…
THE BIG NEWS FOR me fiction-wise this winter is having my short story “Mirror Image” appear in the British anthology Nasty Snips, a collection of “short-short” stories which include tales from D.F. Lewis, Gerard Daniel Houarner, Cathy Buburuz, Shikhar Dixit and John Platt, and many others. To order the book,…
WELL, SUMMERS ARE traditionally slow times for both acceptances and writing for me. I was recently in San Francisco for 9 days on business and began a new fantasy story there about a woman and the moon. (It’s actually based in part on a conversation I held with a fascinating…
SOME GOOD NEWS over the past couple months! In March, the latest issue of Grue Magazine appeared, including my “Pumpkin Head” story as its lead-off tale. And this past week, the April 1999 issue of E-Scape appeared, including my story “Grandma Wanda’s Belly Jelly.” In other “web” news, I signed…
WELL, TIME TO CLEAR the decks. I’ve decided to clear the Journal plate of 1997-1998 entries and start anew. And so we begin… So what’s going on with me? A LOT! I seem to be on a fiction glut of late. At the start of the year, Bobbi Sinha-Morey offered…
