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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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New Life in Autumn – 6/9/22!

Hey, check out what’s coming soon! RETURN TO THE MEAN STREETS OF AUTUMNValerius Bakhoum is dead and buried. Too bad he’s still flat broke and behind on the rent. Unsure

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#TueSneakPeek: Shut the Gates of Mercy

I also did a Twitter thread on Shut the Gates of Mercy, my third Emperor Norton time travel novella, as part of Sarah J. Sover‘s #TueSneakPeek. Mostly this book happens

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#TueSneakPeek: Aesthetics of New Life in Autumn

FYI, this post talks about themes and some 10,000-foot-view elements of a work that is not yet published, so if you hate reading about a book before you read the

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A Work in Progress: Perfect Virtue

After spending the last couple of years neck deep in science fiction and urban fantasy, I’ve been dying to write horror again. My current work in progress is about ghosts,

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A Tower of Concrete and Flame

That’s right, it’s another #SanFranciscoSunday, and I want to talk about the woman who wore trousers and smoked cigars so she could gamble–a woman so famous the city built a

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A Street of Wood and Blossoms

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A fist of stone rises over San Francisco

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