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Superman, Spider-Man and the Pursuit of the Perfectly Pure Protagonist
Complaining about readers is not a wise pursuit for a humble author who desires an audience, and I acknowledge that one could read the following as doing exactly that. In my defense, I’m not so much complaining as observing a trend. What trend? That of readers celebrating protagonists who are morally pure, and condemning protagonists…
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Describing Emotions in Fiction
Note for readers: This post is a reprint (with a few updates and edits) of a blog post I did for the web site Tuna for Bernadette in 2013. Despite the piece’s advanced age (ten years is like a hundred in blog years), I feel it holds up, and the approach it details is one…
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Interview at “Book Notions”
It was a blast to be interviewed at the web site Book Notions about my upcoming novel “What Waits in the Shadows” and horror writing in general. Click here to check it out!
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Promo animation of ARC Reader comments for “What Waits in the Shadows”
I’ve been getting some great reviews for advanced reader copies of my upcoming horror novel, “What Waits in the Shadows.” I’ve collected several into this short video animation, which features one of my music compositions.
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All my thoughts on “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (all at once)
I finally watched last year’s best pic Oscar winner, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’ My thoughts as I viewed it were that I was seeing the product of true geniuses (it had two directors) who possessed a deep understanding of the power of cinema and the innovative ways symbols and visuals can be mined for…
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“Screams from the Ocean Floor” anthology is coming
I’m drenched with anticipation about the above named underwater horror anthology coming soon from Broken Brain Books. It features works from a plethora of great horror authors, including big names like Angel Van Atta, Gage Greenwood, and current wunderkind of Facebook’s influential Books of Horror group, Leigh Kenny. Oh, and one of my stories will…
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A few thoughts on generative fiction
There’s no doubt the most interesting thing happening in the world of fiction writing is the development of AI tools like Chat GPT that are capable of writing readable fiction. (“Readable” is admittedly a low bar—the phone book is readable—but by this I mean the text can keep readers’ eyes on the page, at least…
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The horror of the first blog post
I can think of no greater horror than the sensation that comes when confronted with writing the first post in a newly christened blog. What should I say? Will I be judged harshly for my meager words? Will this blog, like tens of millions before it, be abandoned? As I contemplate these concerns, my heartbeat…