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Spooky Season 2023 Revving Up!

Spooky Season has descended upon us, and what better way to get into the spirit (all puns intended) than some spooky reads. I usually have a few release every October, but this year, your bookshelf or e-reader will look like an Eighties kid’s trick or treat pillowcase after a really good Halloween night First comes a free read in the Halloween Witch issue of D.J Tyrer’s View from Atlantis…

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Have You Seen The Yellow Sign....?

Summer time didn’t bring me a lot of easy living, between various personal problems I won’t elaborate on (I have a therapist for that…) and some good things that sort of balanced the measure (more about the best one, at the end of this post). In spite of all this, I kept my hand to the keyboard and got some more stories out the door. Most importantly, I assembled a small collection of my own…

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Fractal Faery Tales

Life has gotten interesting, as it so often does. No doubt regular readers of this blog noticed a very long gap between entries, and that, naturally, comes as a result of Life Constantly Getting Too Interesting. I had another health scare, this time involving Something Concern-Inducing showing up on an otherwise routine scan and it was especially Concern-Inducing due to my Not Great Family…

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Coming in Like a Lion

This winter has proven a hard one for me, between work at the day job and my health getting wonky. I have managed to (mostly) keep my head up and my hands on my writing desk and I have several tales for your consideration and terror I’ve managed to keep abreast of posting regularly on my Patreon page. For January, we had a New Year’s house party at the home of Lady Dyanthe Bracknell, who…

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Starting the New Year the Write Way

After a few fumbles, due to my unpredictable work schedule even into the start of the new year, I’ve managed to get back to work on crafting new tales for your future consideration. I can’t say much for now, as things are in the process of moving and shaking, but I’ve set to work on some faery tales and a potential home for them, plus helping a fellow author finish up something. Hopefully fortune…

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2022: A Year In Review

2022: A Year In Review

One week into the new year – is it me, or does the number ‘2023’ feel like a number in a story from the Golden or Silver Age of Science Fiction (Or is it all the fiction I read from that era)? – and it’s time to look back on 2022 and the stories I published during its time. “Please Don’t Tear the Pages From the Grimoires” – a tale loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”, in…

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Coming Up for Air in the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Coming Up for Air in the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Admittedly, I dropped off the face of the earth for the past two months: November gets crazy when you moonlight in grocery retail. I got so tired from slinging frozen turkeys, I had no energy to write. Usually, I allow myself to take the month of December off, but this year, I gave myself a break from working toward publishing stuff (though I did write something with a view to typing and sending…

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Tricks and Treats for 2022

Tricks and Treats for 2022

Spooky Season is in full swing and I have a full bowl of treats for you to dig into. Starting off with this month’s Patreon story: the mermaids have swum back to the depths and a new tale takes its place. In Lonesome Farm Stand, October Night, a young girl working at a farm stand contends with scary customers coming out of the damp night. A subscription for as little as two dollars a month, less…

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"Please Oh Please, Come Buy My Books..."

“Please Oh Please, Come Buy My Books…”

“Please, oh please, come buy my books.I won’t give you dirty looksIf you please come buy my books?Paper comes from a tree –Will you buy some books from me??“ Pardon the Burma Shave-jingleesque poetry as I’ll be softly quoting it at the last sale of the season at the Tewksbury Community Market, on September 29th, between 4 pm and 7 pm at 288 Livingston Street, in Tewksbury MA, as I return to vend…

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Spooky Season Starting!

The weather here in the Miskatonic Valley has at last started cooling down as August faded into September. As the nights grow longer and the time when the veil thins draws near, people’s thoughts turn toward the spooky and supernatural. I may be taking things slowly and with care when it comes to the writing, but I do have some Halloween treats in store for you. From Tales of Wonder and Dread…

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Blowing the Dust From This Blog

Blowing the Dust From This Blog

Life continues to devour me whole, however, I’ve managed to keep clawing my way out and get a few new (and refurbished) tales out for your reading pleasure. I’m making good on my promise to do more with the Patreon page and add a new story each month. In April, I dusted off a tale that had previously appeared in Scary Snippets: Easter Edition and posted a new version of The Horror At the Garden…

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Patreon Rebooted and "Dark Dossier"

Patreon Rebooted and “Dark Dossier”

In spite of the state of the world, I’m hammering away at my writing as best I can. At long last, I sold a few books through my Alibris store, which I’d started toward the beginning of the pandemic and I’ve added a few new titles to it. A few years back, I opened a Patreon account, where I’ve posted a few things, mostly alternate takes of stories or cut scenes, but I’ve added a few stories not…

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2021: A Year in Review

2021: A Year in Review

This year was a bit slow going due to everything being everything. However! A few stories emerged from my mind and found their way onto the printed page. “The Eyes in all Their Darkness” – Forbidden DreamsAn otherwise seasoned FBI agent finds himself quite literally in over his head when he infiltrates a cult suspected of sacrificing young people to a being on the edge of reality as humanity…

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Slow Going in the New Year

Slow Going in the New Year

2021 is shaping up to be as much of a well of calamity as 2021 was. My mental health hasn’t been the best, but slowly. I’m pulling onto a more stable place. In the meantime, my level of inspiration has taken a nose dive. While I’m poking at some projects, and I have some exciting news of things to come this year, including a side trip into a new to me genre, and while I have some things to keep…

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2020: A Writing Year in Review

2020: A Writing Year in Review

2020 was a year of horrors and terror (also. water is wet and dust is dry), but I managed to channel my fears into twenty-four shivery tales for your shared shudders…   “Not Intended For Use As a Splat Book” – Terror Tract January 2020 – in which a disturbed young LARPer tries, with all too much success, to harness a fiery force from beyond and bend it to his devices, using a suspicious book of…

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The Spooky Season Commences

The Spooky Season Commences

This has been a difficult time for me, as my lack of recent updates probably can tell you. While I was productive for the first half of the year, I got horribly burnt out during August, due to an attempt at returning to my day job after the numbers of coronavirus cases had diminished and some personal troubles I won’t elaborate on. Also, I’m going to come straight out and admit that some less…

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Summer Busy-ness

Yet more radio silence, due to keeping busy with the writing. Also, I decided to go back to work at the day job on a week-to-week basis. This took some thinking and deciding, and then just as I went back to work, the number of COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts started to creep up. It’s made the return interesting, as I’ve often said, in the sense of “living in interesting times”. I guess we have…