I’m looking forward to the Horror of Writing thing tonight. It will be good to see Brian Keene and the Warners again. And it’s always cool to hang out with Ron Malfi. Supposedly his brother, Darin, will be there wearing a Raw Dog Screaming Press/Fall of Never T-shirt. That is too cool! I hope to…

PsychologyToday.com features Michael Gills' GO LOVE: Q: You really focus in on the details of your story, Michael, so everything feels utterly real. How do you manage that? Fred Chappell taught me that a writer must know what's going on in the sevendirections at every given instant in the piece: above, below, in front,behind, on…

The Review of Contemporary Fiction has a piece on Jesus Coyote: “Harold Jaffe’s novel Jesus Coyote re-appropriates the discourses surrounding the Manson Family, laying bare the ideology of the dominant culture….One comes to realize that Coyote simply exists as he is, unapologetically beyond social norms, and might thus be seen as symbol of resistance to…

I’ve started compiling the video footage from the Backlist Books reading. Here is John Edward Lawson reading "Burning Sylvia Plath’s Bra" from his forthcoming poetry book, SuiPsalms.Yes…he really did do that.

The final issue of Bare Bone, #11, is now available. You can buy it over at Amazon or at our web site. Over the years Bare Bone really grew as a series and has some of the best short horror fiction around, especially from newcomers. Unfortunately between the high number of contributors and the increase…

ARCHITECTURES OF POSSIBILITY is now available for KINDLE.