“Don’t touch the moss,” our guide said. “It’s crawling with mites. Chiggers. Bugs.” I pulled my hand back. We were walking the historic Bonaventure cemetery in Savannah, surrounded […]
My Freewrite Review
First of all, for those who have never heard of it, that thing in the image up top is a Freewrite. It’s a wifi-enabled portable typewriter. It exists to allow […]
Antler Review: January
I began this year with a grand and ambitious plan: I was going to review short fiction. After all, I read a metric fuckton of short fiction. I subscribe to […]
The Book of Etta Made the Shortlist for the PKD!
I got the news in the usual way one does these days: phone lit up and buzzed itself off my desk and on to the floor. My second novel, The […]
The Midwife’s Christmas Gift
I wrote a scene into my first book, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, wherein one of the characters gives another one a very thoughtful Christmas gift. Without giving it […]
Looking for Holly Gennero
Invariably, I am reminded about a dozen times a December that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I’ll see the same grainy photo of a grainy photo of John McClane, […]
Awards Eligibility 2017
I published one novel and seven short stories in 2017. Some of these works are eligible for the Hugo, Nebula, British Fantasy Award, Stoker Award, This is Horror Award, Lambda […]
Strange California GIVEAWAY
California is a weird place. It’s not just weird in the granola-nutty way the rest of the country thinks it is. It’s much weirder than that. This is a book […]
Gerald’s Game is the Best Stephen King Adaptation of 2017
Gerald’s Game was the best screen adaptation of a Stephen King novel I have seen in a long time. King’s work is enjoying something of a renaissance right now, but […]
Beverly Marsh is not Your Damsel
I got the chance to talk about the new movie adaptation of Stephen King’s IT with the guys from the Scary Thoughts podcast. We all saw the film together and discussed […]