BACK IN 2006, my novelette Failure  launched a “hardcover chapbook” line for Delirium Books. I got to create the wraparound cover art for that and the next several releases in the line, which was a lot of fun and really allowed me to stretch creatively. This week, my imprint Dark…
Independence: the state of not being controlled by others. Freedom from the influence, support, aid of others. HUMAN LIFE IS A constant struggle to attain the freedom that you want to do what you want… while at the same time, attaining the right amount of dependence on others — spouse,…
AT THE START, it always seems like you have all the time in the world… and then suddenly, it’s over and everyone’s on a plane back home. World Horror Convention 2013 in New Orleans was no different… this was my 11th World Horror Con, and a special one for me,…
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY edition of Vigilantes of Love, my 2nd short story collection, came out in e-book a couple months ago, and now I’m happy to announce that it’s also available once again as a trade paperback. The book includes an updated cover (using elements of the original, but rearranging…
OVER THE PAST couple weeks, I’ve been to Ann Arbor, Michigan and Calgary, Canada on business trips. Both turned out to be great micro-brew towns, with a handful of small breweries all within a few blocks of each other. So over the course of a few days I poked my…
I travel a lot both for my dayjob and book promotion… and I love tasting good craft beer. So that means I end up trying a lot of different brews in a lot of different places. I’ve been posting snippets and pictures periodically over the past few years, especially on…
I WAS SIX OR SEVEN years old when I first started watching Star Trek re-runs with my dad. I remember that because a) I loved the show and b) my mom always insisted that bedtime was about halfway through each episode. Talk about frustrating! Yesterday, some forty years later, was…
Today Amazon is featuring my first novel, Covenant on a special promotion for just 99 cents. It’s part of their Kindle Daily/Gold Box Deal of the Day campaign, featuring 40 Mysteries and Thrillers! I’m pretty excited that Covenant is getting this extra exposure — there are lots of great books…
JUST OVER A MONTH AGO, right after I landed in Santiago, Chile for a week-long business trip, I received word that my sixth novel, NightWhere, had made the final ballot for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards. What a great way to start a long trip, right? I was obviously pretty…
DURING THE LAST WEEK in February 2013, I flew to Santiago, Chile for a week-long business trip. I’ve never been to South America before, and really didn’t know what to expect. People (and the Internet) insisted that folks in Santiago would have a good smattering of English, since it’s a…
