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 Horror of Writing Workshop is this Thursday! It would be cool to see some lj’ers there. Get all the info here. Plus, don’t forget the Horror-web chat with Mike Arnzen and Darren Speegle on Sunday. I’m really looking forward to both of these events. Authors really are pretty interesting people to talk to when…

Lately I’ve been working on the press release for A Dirge for the Temporal. Press releases are a pain in the neck to write. Thank god Darren is coming to Horrorfind otherwise I would have absolutely nothing to put in the release since you’re only supposed to put ‘news’ not flowery descriptions of the book….

Dustin LaValley got a mention in a recent Fangoria article for his work on the script for TERROR OVERLOAD—TALES FROM SATAN’S TRUCK STOP (http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=7281) a low-budget anthology flick currently in production. If it’s anything like the tales from LaValley’s collection it’s going to be one hell of a ride! On a side note, it mentions…

Dustin LaValley’s short film Party Girl will be shown in the Atlanta Film Festival this year. It will be included as part of the Paint It Black thriller shorts program on Friday, August 13th at 10:30 pm, Spring4th Center, 728 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308.

Mr. Wicker RDSP is happy to announce that we have signed a deal to release Maria Alexander’s debut novel Mr. Wicker in 2014. Based on a screenplay that placed highly in the prestigious Nicholl competition, Mr. Wicker is an urban fantasy about a woman who is missing a deadly childhood memory. She must find that memory before it…