A Digression on Structure

I take a generally benign subject - Hugo Awards - and twist it to my own nefarious ends.

Half memoir, half essay. All BS.

Hope you enjoy.

Check it out here.

The Death Fantastic

My story, "The Death Fantastique," can now be read over at Beat to a Pulp.

The inimitable David Cranmer - a hellacious author in his own right (har har har) says nice things about it and me here, at his blog.

Schmalance

New post over at The Night Bazaar. All about the balance one needs to become a best-selling uber-author and how I don't have that.

Also, Batman, thermoses, Janus, dogs, kids, and Google docs and the imminent death of publishing is mentioned.

Check it out here.

Artsy Cover - Ozark Noir

Is it too artsy? Do I need an inbred with a tattoo and a trailer and a gun? Comments? Feedback?

Shit, I think I'm gonna have to go back to the drawing board and get something more literal.

What do you want to see on a Ozark Noir cover?

An Interview on Culture Wars

I'm interviewed by Barna Donovan and Ernabel Demillo at Culture Wars.

It was a snow day. I was at home in my office. They called and I shooed my kids away. And then I opened my mouth and stuff came out. I had no control over it, whatsoever.

I hope I don't sound too much like an idiot.

Check it out here.

Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles

The western is due for a resurgence. A re-ascent. A renaissance, if you will. (Yes, I know renaissance means re-ascent. Stop it.)

So, when the illustrious David Cranmer (writing as Edward A. Grainger) - editor of Beat to a Pulp - asked me to do a cover for his short story collection, I jumped at the chance. I love old west prints.

The stories look great. They're hardboiled westerns. Six-gun Noir.

More info on Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles when I know it.

In the Immortal Words of Tom Petty

New blog about the trials and tribulations of being a writer over at The Night Bazaar.

It's full of rather inane blather.

Here's the deal. I'm a good writer. I'm a good storyteller - no, wait - a teller of stories. I am not a good blogger, essayist, or philosopher. I have nothing figured out and I'm just fumbling along through life, doing and saying stupid things, and sometimes getting it right. Sometimes.

Meanwhile, I write novels.

Oh, right. Here's the link to the blog.

IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF TOM PETTY

SOUTHERN GODS Cover Art

Behold the cover painting for SOUTHERN GODS. Give me your thoughts, comments, questions.

DEADWORLD

New cover design by moi.

Bryan Smith has entered the epublishing fray. Pssssst. I also designed his masthead.

THEY'RE HANDING OUT BAGS OF MONEY AT AMAZON!!!!!

But seriously, Bryan's book sounds damned awesome. Here's what he told me:

It's an apocalyptic horror novel. Demons/creatures from another plane of reality tear their way into our world and lay waste to everything, eventually killing 99% of the world's population. However, the creatures themselves soon start to die off. An agent - gas - from the other dimension seeps into our world, infecting it with a strange kind of rot that causes inorganic matter to age and decay at an accelerated rate. Buildings that were perfectly functional weeks earlier fall to ruins. New cars become rusted hulks. The few surviving humans are manipulated by a pair of warring creatures from the other dimension. These two are much more powerful than the ones that initially invaded and killed everyone. They are ancient enemies, one being very dark and malevolent, the other being a force more or less for good. At the end they will square off in a final showdown after having used the surviving humans as puppets in various ways.

Daaaang. GvsE.

I will post a link where you can purchase this, soon.

Writing Action Sequences

Over at The Night Bazaar, I discuss how little I know about writing and the impossibility of teaching that meager store to other people.

But still, it's fun. Go check it out.

The Night Bazaar.