After months of planning, packing, and panicking, Authorcon II in Williamsburg, Virginia is nearly upon us (March 31st – April 2nd). My journey begins tomorrow after work, when I drive to the Keisling’s haunted mansion to spend the night before we carpool to Virginia. Todd plans to strap me to the hood Mad Max style, …
This is the last weekend of my summer. On Monday, I go back to work for the fall semester, teaching first year English to incoming freshman. Just like that, autumn has arrived for me. That’s the weird thing about teaching. Even as an adult, I still get to experience all those familiar “back to school” …
After an intense internal debate, I have finally launched a Patreon Page! With my new novel coming out on October 18th, a new writing gig at the 80sXchange, and extra time for writing after losing my summer classes this year (yeah, that happened), now felt like the perfect time to launch. You know those commercials …
Plus Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions Updates I am proud to announce a new release, Liminal Spaces: An Anthology of Dark Speculative Fiction edited by Kevin Lucia, is now available for purchase as a paperback or ebook. My short story, “The Black Door,” can be found in its pages, along with a host …
Dead Headspace Podcast Episode 102 I recently sat down with Patrick R. McDonough of Dead Headspace Podcast for an incredibly fun chat. We even had a surprise drop-in from Todd Keisling to add to the palpable insanity already on display. We talk about everything from sculpture, to Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions, to …
Friends: Welcome back to October. Our time is here once again, and every fiber of my peculiar makeup is shivering and shuddering in anticipation. Each day is a brilliant, auburn surprise. Every moment is a sliver of autumnal delight. Craggy orange pumpkins have again taken over storefronts and stoops; apples are piled high in baskets …
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Don’t run away! I know you want to. I know as soon as you see the word “Kickstarter,” nasty visions of wannabe artists and writers float through your mind, all with their hands extended begging for your hard-earned cash. Push those visages away momentarily. Instead, picture rewards beyond measure: hand-painted sculptures, exclusive maps, things that …
Ever since I started sculpting, I have wanted to create a throwback to the mail-in kids’ club packages I remember from the 80s and 90s. Those, now nostalgic, sign-ups we’d send in–sometimes with box tops, sometimes with Kool-Aid stamps or product labels–which resulted in a surprise package at our doorsteps. These boxes would contain all …
We’re well into the last week of the year, and I for one couldn’t be happier. Sure, we can get into the whole one-year-older frame of mind, but what good will it do? Instead, I like to embrace this holiday home stretch. I bask in the warmth of vacation days, swim in the pool of …