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Recently I participated in an online interview with Erin Balser (@booksin140) on Twitter. The basic premise of her interviews is that the interviewee is limited to 140 characters per answer.

In the interview we discuss The Trouble With Being God, my next project, why I decided to self-publish, and other things.  You can read the full interview online here.

And if you’re not following me on Twitter yet, feel free to do so.

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Over the last few weeks several more reviews of The Trouble With Being God have been popping up across the Internet, both from readers and from professional publications. Here are a few of the highlights:

From Horror Bound Online Magazine:

The juxtaposition of Steven and one of the victims as dramatic foils is very interesting. They are both emotionally involved with Karen, and one could say that they are both preaching, albeit about very different things.

Overall, it was an interesting story. If t

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Dr. Acula over at Horrornews.net has read and reviewed The Trouble With Being God. It’s a quite fair review, in my opinion, and I’m happy to see Horrornews enjoyed the novel and picked up on the story’s essence.

Here’s a bit of what they had to say:

The novel is a very quick read, both physically and from a mental standpoint. Most chapters are no more than a couple pages long, forcing the story, in a way, to move fast. When I first started reading it, I thought this aspect would get annoying, a

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Since publishing The Trouble With Being God and releasing it into the wild, a strange thing has happened: the book has been repeatedly considered a horror novel. Now, while I can see this being easy to assume based on the first impressions of the cover design, or from a quick read of the first chapter, I never really thought of it that way.  With all the horror fans who have been picking up on the book (and a nudge from fellow author, Monica Valentinelli), however, I realized it was time to take

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