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And Now For Something Completely Different…

I’ve always been a dog person. Cats are nice, but I once wrote a chapter in a book that included cats eating the corpse of their former master, which I am completely convinced they would do. Probably while the corpse

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Peaks and Valleys

I ran an Amazon giveaway on the 27th & 27th of February.  I gave away 10,000 books over 48 hours.  Sure, it wasn’t as impressive as the 17,000 I gave away about a year ago, but it still made me

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Posted in A Debt of Bacon, A Feast of Infinite Rot, A Hollow Dream of Summer's End, Forsaken, Giveaway, Rant, Self Publishing

Struggle

I don’t know why I do this. That thought probably runs through my head every five minutes.  On a good day, maybe once an hour. On a bad day, it’s always there, a giant fuckin’ neon sign, flashing beneath the

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.99 Cents

Just a quick heads up that FORSAKEN will be 99 cents for the next week at least, perhaps longer (but not much).  There’s a reason why, I’m just not ready to announce it.  After all, I did say some several

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Forced Optimism; ^$@& Winter!

Wow, this place gathers dust fast! So I had a big blog post all written up, a massive tribute to the frigid hell that is winter, and, more specifically, how months of cold weather and grey skies turn me from

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Perks…

I find the research phase of breaking a story to be a lot of fun.  While I never try to become a full expert on a subject, I find that a little research does indeed go a long way.  Even

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Why I Don’t Do Dinner Parties

Short of “Registered Sex Offender,” no three words seem to consistently raise eyebrows and result in awkward pauses and general discomfort than the following: “I Write Horror.” It’s the literary equivalent of farting in church, a close cousin to being

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My Ideal Writing Spot…

I think I’ve found it.

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A Brief Respite

A year ago I challenged myself to write a book that really scared me. Like leave-the-lights-on scary. Like bad-things-happen-to-good-people scary. Like get-beneath-your-skin-and-drive-you-insane scary. After a year of going full dark and coming up with sentences and paragraphs and whole chapters

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