There’s this coffee shop, and this girl. She’s a nice girl, a lonely girl with a past full of baggage and insecurity enough for an Olympic pity squad…she drinks coffee at the coffee shop. As many lonely people do - she finds solace in books and ends up eventually working as a clerk in a book store. Along the way,…

There’s this coffee shop, and this girl. She’s a nice girl, a lonely girl with a past full of baggage and insecurity enough for an Olympic pity squad…she drinks coffee at the coffee shop. As many lonely people do - she finds solace in books and ends up eventually working as a clerk in a book store. Along the way,…

I started a while back on a quest to interview all of the SIRENS involved in the four author collection SINS OF THE SIRENS.  Today I bring you the final installment … Christa Faust.

You can find out all you might want to know about Christa AT HER WEBSITE - except for the answers to the questions below…  You can read my…

Author Willie Meikle is a Scottish writer living and working in Canada. He has eight published novels in the horror and fantasy independent press and short story credits in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Italy, Russia, India and Romania.

His most recent sale is to the upcoming Wrongworld DVD anthology “Choices”, coming in mid-April.

In addition to this, he’s…

I’m pleased to announce that the layout for my collection, “Ennui & Other States of Madness” is completed.  This is a massive 350 plus page short story collection.  Editor / Publisher Joe Morey said he wanted this book to be “definitive,” so I spent a lot of time deciding what would, and what would not make the cut to get…

The Wildman

By Rick Hautala

There is nothing new under the sun. That’s what they’ve said since Biblical times, and mostly it rings true. In the case of Rick Hautala’s new novel, the old rules bend. The Wildman is a novel about boyhood pals coming back together to revisit a horrible event in their past. Immediately upon reading this you might think of…

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This is a short, beautiful book. Usually in the world of books you get part of the package, or most of the package, but something just slips away. Either the writing isn’t quite up to par, or the proof-reading is poor, or the design is flawed … or the book itself is poorly constructed. In most cases, one or more…

I had an interview, book review, and more planned here today, but the expected launch of Simon Wood (Writing as Simon Jans)’s novella SCRUBS was delayed a week…instead, I’m going to point you to the most recent two essays over at Storytellers Unplugged.  You can see the header links on the RSS feed to your right.

This month, Thomas Sullivan writes…

I actually intend to talk about writing as well as television, but sometimes things pile up and you need to get them out of your system. For starters, my top five prediction for American Idol is still solid, I think, though there is some question whether of not Carly Smithson will make it. She’s imploded somewhat over the last couple…