I will be a guest critiquer at the 2023 Odyssey Writing Workshop, which I attended in person myself waaaay back in the previous century. During the pandemic, this six-week in-person workshop transitioned into an online workshop of varying lengths, tailored to what writers specifically want to work on. This is a wonderful, flexible opportunity wherever … Continue reading Guest Critiquer at Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop

A quick dash through the top writing news of 2022 to bring us up to date: -My story "The Dead Ways" appeared in the debut issue of the new magazine Nightmare Abbey, edited by Tom English. It's available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble online. It's a terrific magazine, and if you miss the small … Continue reading Writing news from 2022

First news of 2022, I am interviewed on this podcast, Let The Cat In, by Australian writers Kaaron Warren, Aaron Dries and Joseph Ashley-Smith. We had a ridiculously good time chatting, I could have gone on for hours, and it has reinforced my determination to get back to Australia at some point, see more of … Continue reading Let the Cat In and a paperback reprint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmLTV32p8Q Last month, author Helen Grant had the idea for several of us to record ourselves reading a ghost story by candlelight for Christmas. David Longhorn (who in addition to writing edits the fine publication SUPERNATURAL TALES), Sean Hogan, and I stepped up and we bring you The Dead of Winter: Four Chilling Stories for … Continue reading DEAD OF WINTER: Ghost Stories for Christmas

My story "Der Geisterbahnof" is in the new anthology Beyond the Veil, which is out this week. Over at the Flame Tree Press blog, you can see my comments on the story's origins as well as those of several other contributors. Order Beyond the Veil from the publisher, Amazon, or your local friendly brick-and-mortar bookseller!

I'm delighted to be able to announce that the anthology Prisms, edited by Darren Speegle and Michael Bailey, is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing. This anthology got pushed back a few years, so my story "Encore For an Empty Sky"--a rare jaunt by me into science fiction--has been waiting for a while to … Continue reading PRISMS and BLACK STATIC

Last year, one of my favorite presses for weird and strange literature, Egaeus Press, published a book of haunted house stories, Crooked Houses, that included my story "Miasmata." But the print run sold out within a week, so if you didn't act fast, it was gone! Now I'm happy to be able to announce that … Continue reading Crooked Houses: Second Printing

The new Black Static is out! Issue #77 contains my column "Notes From the Borderland," this time focusing on Christmas ghost stories. There is fiction by Philip Fracassi, Steve Rasnic Tem, Françoise Harvey, David Martin, Shannon K. Gaerity, and Eric Schaller. Cover art is Ben Baldwin; Joachim Luetke also illustrates a story. Other columns are by Ralph … Continue reading Black Static #77 is out

I am surprised and pleased to announce that I have been nominated for a British Fantasy Award in the nonfiction category for the column I write for Black Static, "Notes from the Borderland." This is only the second award nomination for my writing I've ever received--in 2016 I was nominated for and won the 2015 … Continue reading British Fantasy Award nomination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAPi24uvt5M&feature=youtu.be A couple of weeks ago, I participated in an author's panel on Zoom moderated by Kate Jonez of the publishing company Omnium Gatherum. Unlike many people, I have been slow to warm up to Zoom in These Pandemic Times, but I really enjoyed chatting with my fellow authors Simon Bestwick, Tom Johnstone, and Mark … Continue reading My weird dark shadow and a new short story