Michael

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Querying Agents & Presses

I’ve been querying agents (and now some horror presses) since last October in a renewed effort to get an agent and see if I can crack the “big” press world. […]

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Mood Boards: Contemporary Ancestors

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Book Marketing: Frank Talk About Real Numbers

About a million years ago, I started my first author blog in order to talk transparently about book marketing and the results of various efforts. I didn’t keep that up,

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Book Review: T. Kingfisher’s THE TWISTED ONES

Are you reading T. Kingfisher? Are you devouring her books, perhaps physically, because they are SO AMAZING? Because if not, I think you might want to be! The Twisted Ones is

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Book Review: Living Queer History

In my final semester at Appalachian State I wrote a review of Gregory Samantha Rosenthal’s Living Queer History, a nonfiction work describing Dr. Rosenthal’s work to co-organize an ongoing queer history

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The cover of the novel THE LONELY LETTERS by Ashon T. Crawley.

Book Review: The Lonely Letters

Last semester I wrote a review of Ashon T. Crawley’s book The Lonely Letters for a class in my Appalachian Studies certificate program at Appalachian State University. I submitted it to

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A #PitLight-Adjacent Post (A Day Late)

This year I participated in #PitLight, a fun, upbeat, authors-only social media pitch event for books we’re working on (or want to work on, or perhaps should be working on).

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Recent & Upcoming Virtual & In-Person Schedule!

I recently did a bunch of online panels in various places: I recently moderated a super-fun Con-Tinual panel about the films and cultural impact of Troma! (YouTube) I recently had

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SplatterFlix 2022 at the Carolina Theatre of Durham!

I’m thrilled to be at the SplatterFlix Film Series at The Carolina Theatre of Durham this weekend! I’m selling books, talking about Ret-Con, and giving away Arcane Carolinas buttons and

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StoryBundle: Best of the Indies

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