Kendall Reviews recently asked me to write a guest post, and since my 2017 was largely devoted to writing my first novel, it seemed to be a subject in which I could offer some advice. So rather than talking about my favorite short stories or records to write to, I tried to use my experience […]
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Justin Burnett dug into me with some questions, bravely facing any worms he might encounter in the soil. I rambled a bit in the hopes a couple of those worms had a little insight to share. You can read the interview here.
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My new short story, “The Pine Arch Collection,” is now live over at The Dark. I’m always happy to publish in this magazine. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace are excellent and diverse curators, and the fiction they give us is never behind a paywall. This is a slightly idiosyncratic story in that it’s told entirely […]
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The Dark is currently running a Kickstarter to fund their next two years, raise author pay rates, and cross off other important wish list items. Please check out the nice list of rewards and consider making a pledge before April 4th. They are one of my very favorite publishers of short fiction for a few […]
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Sometimes I feel caught between horror and that ill-defined land of “literary fiction.” I’m not interested in a “versus” argument or any sort of pretension here. I love both equally, I read both equally, I mash them into a ball together, and, most importantly, I don’t think there’s much of a difference between them, anyway, […]
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I have this terror that one day while my pup and I are in the back yard, just the two of us at home, I will fall down dead. She and I are always alone in this terror. It is a cold morning (for it is winter as I write this, and the terror lives […]
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Ah, the year-end writerly recap. I wrote far more in 2017 than I ever had in a year (about 150,000 words) and had a pretty nice publishing slate. My collection, Greener Pastures, continued to find its way into new hands as it turned one year old and now approaches the end of its second year. […]
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