First, an apology for neglecting this blog for almost a full month. A lot of non-writing factors and concerns kept me unavailable. But now I’m getting back in the swing of things. I did post a book review yesterday (mystery novel fans might take note!) and now I have a ton of accumulated news about my […]
Read more "PUBLISHING NEWS: Updates, Delays, New Sales & Upcoming Publications"With Blair Murphy on a ‘secret mission’ (of a literary nature, possibly leading to something big–and yes, that is all that Our Glorious Leader would tell any of us), I was in charge of the weekly coffeehouse at the Grand Midway Hotel. I was ably assisted by Synthia (in a black promotional t-shirt dating back […]
Read more "COFFEEHOUSE NIGHTS: 14 September 2019"As always, I have a number of projects going at once. Hence this blog is in the nature of a ‘head’s up’ for any and all interested parties. In the next couple days (probably this Thursday), I’ll be posting my review of the 2013 film Lee Daniel’s The Butler here. It’s a somewhat fictionalized account of […]
Read more "Various Coming Attractions"I’ve done a couple freelance review articles for horror novelist DM Draper’s website in the past. But now I’ve been asked to review a number of well-received zombie-focused works. The first two have already been published. Here are the links: http://www.dmdraper.com/reviews/cell-by-stephen-king/ http://www.dmdraper.com/reviews/patient-zero-a joe-ledger-novel/ More such reviews will be forthcoming as are some new fiction pieces […]
Read more "WRITING NEWS & RANDOM LITERARY HOUSEKEEPING"Here’s a first look at issue #3 of Skelos, a horror magazine that’s about to be published. I happen to have a book review in this issue. It’s just one of four different publications I either have work in right now or that I sold material to in the last two days! For some inexplicable reason, […]
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