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Calling out to all the NE Ohio friends: This Sunday, September 20, I’ll be selling and signing books at the fifth annual North Coast Indie Author Book Expo in Avon, Ohio. I’ll be one of 100 independent and small-press authors representing a host of fiction genres, as...

Halloween is still six weeks away, but you can get an early start on your share of scary tales with Shudder Stories: Green Ghost, available now from Becky Books! Following up on the success of Shudder Stories: Corpus Vile (2025), this new collection leads off with...

Hundreds of readers, writers and fans in the pulp community – and I count myself in all three groups – are still reeling from the news of the sudden passing of Will Murray last week (August 25) at the age of 73. Will was an enormous figure in the pulp community – not...

It’s been a week since I returned from Pulpfest 2026, and I’m still catching up on unfinished business. I was at the four-day convention representing Flinch Books with my partner and co-founder Jim Beard. We’ve been there almost every year since 2016, and our table in...

This afternoon I’m recording an episode of WTF Live, a brand-new podcast produced by Pretty Good Books, an indie bookstore located in Ashtabula, OH, and hosted by Moriah Jackson, the Iowa-based indie author of The Echoes and When the Levee Breaks. The title of the...

The first installment of my extended interview on the Pulp Underground discussion forum is now live. Pulp Underground co-host Grace Ximenez and I spent almost the entire month of February and a few days in March making our way through a comprehensive Q&A series...

Just a Short announcement… Flinch Books, the small press publishing venture that I co-founded in 2015, will be a sponsor at this year’s ShortCon in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 6. Now in its third year, ShortCon is a one-day conference for writers of short crime...

March is National Small Press Month. It’s a 31-day acknowledgment of all the small press publishers and indie authors who offer a refreshing alternative to the oftentimes predictable content generated by the few monolithic publishing houses that dominate the...

As the final hours of 2025 wind down, I’m reminded of one or two writing projects on this year’s to-do list that didn’t make it across the finish line as planned. But rather than waste a good holiday thinking about unfinished business, I choose to focus on what did...

Warmest wishes for a joyous holiday to all who are celebrating. Hang your stockings by the chimney with care. Light a candle. Sing a yuletide hymn. Honor the past, hope for the future, and have yourself a merry little Christmas now.