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“Ring of Fire” Makes Preliminary Bram Stoker Award Ballot!
Posted on January 21, 2020 1 Comment
I’m thrilled to announce my novelette, “Ring of Fire,” has made the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award in the Long Fiction category. This was one of the most difficult stories I’ve ever written. I knew going in that pairing horror and lust was going to be difficult—not echoing Hellraiser, avoiding anything that […]
2019 Year in Review
Posted on December 13, 2019 4 Comments
2019 YEAR IN REVIEW: “Golden Sun” (novelette) with Michael Wehunt, Damien Angelica Walters, and Kristi DeMeester in Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven (reprint) “Undone” in Gorgon: Stories of Emergence (Pantheon Magazine) “The Caged Bird Sings in a Darkness of Its Own Creation” in Shallow Creek (STORGY) currently recommended for a Bram Stoker […]
Award Eligible Work
Posted on October 1, 2019 3 Comments
I have a few stories that are eligible for various award nominations—Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, etc. “Ring of Fire” is a sf/fantasy/horror hybrid, set in an isolated arctic location. It’s novelette length, inspired by Annihilation, The Warren, and various A24 films. This was a real challenge to write, but I […]
The Seven Deadliest RELEASES TODAY!
Posted on May 7, 2019 Leave a Comment
Out today! Pick up your copy now. Reviews have been great. And I think my novelette, “Ring of Fire” is one of the best stories I’ve ever written. Edited by Patrick Beltran and D. Alexander Ward, with an introduction by Mercedes M. Yardley. Throughout history, there have been certain moral evils so entangling, so alluring, […]
Cover Reveal for The Seven Deadliest Anthology
Posted on March 27, 2019 Leave a Comment
Here is the cover reveal for The Seven Deadliest, edited by Patrick Beltran and D. Alexander Ward, for Cutting Block Books. It features seven novelettes from an amazing group of authors—John F.D. Taff, Bracken MacLeod, Rena Mason, Brian Kirk, Kasey Lansdale, John Foster, and myself. Yes, of course I GOT LUST! It’s titled “Ring of […]
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