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Now Available: Romancing the Weird

Romancing the Weird is now available in ebook form for just $2.99 at various online retail outlets and in print for $14.99 at Amazon. This short story collection has been a long time in the making. I discussed that in the introduction, so I won't go over all that again here. In fact, I encourage […]

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Preorder Romancing the Weird

Romancing the Weird, a collection of eight Science Fiction and Fantasy Romance short stories (all a little on the weird side), is now available for preorder at a variety of online retailers for just $2.99. I've been working on the stories for this collection for quite a while now, so I'm pleased to finally have […]

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Small Talk in Elevators

A few years ago, I was invited to speak on a panel about Horror in Romance at the RT Convention in Atlanta. The day of the panel, my editor and son drove down and spent the day at the con with me. I don't know what happened to Richard, my editor, but somehow my son […]

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Ida Jean Waller Gets Laid to Rest. Bless Her Heart.

My dad is a singer-wongwriter. When we were little, back before he got into insurance, musicians constantly flowed in and out of our house, it seemed like. We kids never thought much of it, but we were ousted from our beds in favor of visiting musicians on a regular basis. Dad gave up music for […]

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Finalist, 2018 Rash Award in Fiction

A few days ago, I received the news that my short story “Lightning Crack, Thunder Roll” was selected as a finalist in the 2018 Rash Award in Fiction, an honor I was absolutely thrilled to receive. The Rash Award is sponsored by the Broad River Review, the literary magazine of Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, […]

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Lightning Crack, Thunder Roll

This past Sunday, Richard took me for a motorcycle ride up to Brevard. We had no real plans other than grabbing some lunch. After doing so (at the soda fountain in downtown Brevard), we headed back toward Cashiers, near where I live, and veered onto Hwy. 281, which runs from Lake Toxaway down to the […]

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Our Song

Richard (my editor) and I have been road-tripping a lot lately, and have been since last fall when he fell ill and bemoaned the inability to fulfill all his autumn outings. Like the good friend I am, I drove him to a cider festival, to get pumpkin-flavored frozen custard in the Raleigh area, and to […]

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Red

I have a lot of stories that begin because of a phrase I couldn’t get out of my head, usually one I fall asleep or wake up to. Red (A Twisted Fairy Tale) is no different. One day, a whole sentence popped into my head: “Red was the color of her hair in the moonlight.” […]

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Time after Time

My son is a regular idea factory. I’ve written before about how he and I serve as sounding boards for one another, him for my written stories and me for his game stories. It’s not unusual for us to take a similar idea and develop it in different ways. It’s also not unusual for his […]

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Now Available: Dreaming of a Dark Christmas

If you’ve been following my personal blog over at DreamingIf, you’ve already heard about the surprise I’ve had cooking for a while: a collection of dark Christmas short stories written under each of my pen names. I’ve been planning this since August, and am so happy to present these stories to you now. Dreaming of a […]

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