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WIP: A Fall in Autumn

Someone suggested I start posting excerpts from what I’m writing at the moment, so I’m throwing this out there. Does it sound to you like a good idea that I […]

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Quandaries & Opportunities

I have an interesting opportunity and a quandary, and I’d like to describe them to you. One of the goals I set for myself when I published PERISHABLES was to

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WRAPPED IN BLACK Interview: Aaron Gudmunson, “Pig Roast”

Aaron Gudmunson’s “Pig Roast,” which is the closing bookend for Wrapped in Black: Thirteen Tales of Witches and the Occult, is one of the most delightfully disturbing and creepy premises in

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WRAPPED IN BLACK Interview: Shenoa Carroll-Bradd, “She Makes My Skin Crawl”

Shenoa Carroll-Bradd is a very gifted writer with an absolute boatload of ideas, interests and ambition. She writes short fiction, screenplays, graphic novels – you name it. If words can

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WRAPPED IN BLACK Interview: Solomon Archer, “Into the Light”

I’m going to preface this interview by saying Solomon Archer – who once asked me to call him Archer – is absolutely one of the most interesting authors with whom I’ve shared

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WRAPPED IN BLACK Interview: Mike Lester, “Not This Time”

It’s my tremendous pleasure to interview Mike Lester, an accomplished author with work both long-form and short-form to his credit and who is a fellow contributor to Wrapped in Black: Thirteen

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WRAPPED IN BLACK Interview: Rose Blackthorn, “Beautiful, Broken Things”

Today I’m posting my interview with the incredibly talented and prolific Rose Blackthorn, whose story “Beautiful, Broken Things” in Wrapped in Black: Thirteen Tales of Witches and the Occult is absolutely captivating.

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WRAPPED IN BLACK Interview: James Glass, “The Rising Son”

Next up in my series of interviews for Wrapped in Black: Thirteen Tales of Witches and the Occult is none other than James Glass, whose incredibly clever and well-told story “The

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WRAPPED IN BLACK Interview: Michael G. Williams, “Stories I Tell to Girls”

Originally I was going to skip my own Wrapped in Black: Thirteen Tales of Witches and the Occult interview. I mean, it would be a little egocentric, right? At best

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WRAPPED IN BLACK Interview: Nick Kimbro, “Häxenhaus”

Next up for my five-ish questions for co-contributors to Wrapped in Black: Thirteen Tales of Witches and the Occult is Nick Kimbro. Nick is a martial artist and a widely

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