When Cletus J. Diggs gets a visit from his buddy Jasper and learns about the dead man sticking boot-first out of the fishing hole, he has no idea what it will lead to. 
How could he? Old Mill is…
I started out, as I suppose a great many authors do, writing poetry. It seemed the sensitive, artistic thing to do - and it was a hell of a lot easier and quicker for me than crafting a short story, or the dreaded (at the time) task of writing an entire novel. The thing is, I love poetry. I have…
A long, long time ago I read a short story that stuck with me (no pun intended) titled SMOOTHPICKS. That story was published in Deathrealm Magazine, and the author was a lady named Elizabeth Massie. I didn’t know Beth at the time, but I’d heard of her. I’d seen her work in The Horror Show, and seen her name on…
Many years back now, it seems, I got the privilege of reviewing a novel titled DUST OF EDEN. This book was written by the incorrigible, indefatigable Thomas “Sully” Sullivan. Through that review, I met the man, and found the other books, and forged a friendship I expect to enjoy for the rest of my life…
Sully uses words like spiders use…
I will probably finish HOMEPLACE by Elizabeth Massie tonight…so soon there will be a review (and hopefully an update on her five question interview, which took place a long time ago).
I have an update on Thomas Sullivan’s interview, and that will go live any time now as well, but I want to dig out my reviews of his books, and…
They came at him from all sides. Some wielded warped, haphazardly hand-written dictionaries and grammar texts with their participles dangled and their metaphors hopelessly mixed. Others held shar-nibbed fountain pens drenched in blood red ink. Something held him, and he fought to free himself, but each thrash of his limbs tangled him more helplessly.
“We will tattoo him,” one said.
“We will…
Every year it’s the same old thing. The judges start making commentary that just doesn’t fit the performances they have just witnessed. Good acts get panned and disasters get patted on the back. It’s as if they think by ignoring what they just saw and heard, they can change the reality of the sound and influence voting. As if anyone…
In reading the oddball news this morning - something I take great pleasure in - I was forced to ask myself just what century we live in. Over in Italy, a man dead now forty years, was exhumed. The man was a Catholic Monk - a mystic - who is thought to have experienced The Stigmata, among other pretty amazing…
Short post on my part today to point you at other people’s posts… There is a new interview with me up over at author Richard Dansky’s website…
“RICHARD DANSKY: On your website, you’ve discussed tying together your novels Deep Blue and Ancient Eyes, as well as some of your other work. Is this something you’ve always had in mind, or did you find…
Over at Storytellers Unplugged it’s my day in the hotseat, and I wrote about a discovery I’ve made in my fiction - an ability to tap into some very deep, very emotional moments in my past and warp them into something different, but somehow believable and powerful. The two most notable examples of this would be the novella “Roll Them Bones,”…
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