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Undead Is Not An Option

  Hi everyone! I’ve kept this a little quiet, but awhile back I wrote a short story called Dead Man’s Shoes to appear in the Zombie Survival Crew‘s anthology Undead Is Not An Option. This morning Undead Is Not An Option opened up for pre-orders (at the introductory price of $10.00), and I’d love it [...]

Surviving The Publishing Apocalypse

As an aspiring writer, everywhere you turn there’s someone else proclaiming that the sky is in fact falling, and you’d better self publish yourself some shelter before the old gods return and eat your sweet meats for you.   On the other side of the street, wearing nothing but a street sign and a filthy [...]

Do You Need To Write Short Stories?

The short answer on this, is no. You don’t have to write short stories in order to have a career as a novelist.  But it helps.  I first heard the advice about short stories in Stephen King’s excellent book On Writing. Inside, King suggests that budding novelists strive to get short fiction published to give [...]

How Things Change

This post could have also been labeled “aieee!” but I would have worried that it would have given the wrong message. Things are actually pretty darn good. For one thing, I’m getting married. I got engaged to my girlfriend DJ, who’s put up with me for coming up on eight years now, last weekend. We’re [...]

Shorts!

I’ve finally got the short stories page up and running righthere. If you like stories, and you like them short, then this could be the place for you. The story that’s on there at the moment, Jack’s Echo (nothing to do with my last name, it just happens to be the main characters first name), [...]

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