Recent Posts
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No Necromancers, Please
This is a story about online dating, necromancy, and other things that sound fun until you have to attempt them.
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Too Many Words About Fountain Pens
I get back to posting and immediately take a break to talk about fountain pens for about a thousand words.
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The Intervention, or Killing My Darlings With Help
You need to kill your darlings. Good friends will line them up in front of the firing squad for you.
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Why I Write Horror (and Children’s Stories)
I seem like a generally well-adjusted, kind person, so I normally get asked pretty quickly why I write horror. I have reasons (and it’s not just a fertile imagination).
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The Flashlight Game
This is a short horror story from last year that has only been shared via Slack and text message until now. In that time, it’s sparked a lot of good conversations and become my favorite story, though, so I had to share it. It still gives me goosebumps, by the way.
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Another Season, Another Schedule
I love my schedule. It gives me guardrails, and I need it. I also need to be flexible enough to throw the whole thing out and make a new one every few years (or months).
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What I Learned Finishing My First Novel Rewrite
The rough draft of my novel took just five months. The first rewrite took over a year. I learned a few things in the process.
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The Grand Guignol
I tried to write a horror story with nothing supernatural, and I wanted to research a period piece, so I wrote about 1920s Paris and the Grand Guignol. Don’t know what that was? Read the story.
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Inked (Again)
Now that I'm firmly in my forties, I've decided to start getting more tattoos after twenty years. I pretend it’s not a mid-life crisis as much as finally knowing what I want to say.
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That Magic Moment (That’s Surrounded by Work)
There is a magical moment, one that happens at least once per finished piece of writing, when I know that something needs to be written, and why. It takes work to get there, but it’s the most important moment in my writing process.