Recently Published & Other News

"Something to Hold the Door Closed" garnered an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2008. It's also mentioned in the front matter as one of the three best original stories in that volume.  Go Me!

 

  • My poem "Sugar and Old Spice" is up in the October 2008 issue of ChiZine.


Abominations is now in print, with my novellette "Starvelito" included.






  • My poem "The Roads Both Taken (a quantum response to Robert Frost)"  is now available in Star*Line.  Also, this one was the Editor's Choice for short form, so you can read it online!

  • Also online, in the finale issue of nanobison, "The Last Word in Lonesome".  Check it out before December 1!

Award finalist!
 
My short story "Something to Hold the Door Closed", set against the true events leading up to the North Carolina Gold Rush of 1800, is now available in stores and online in this chilling anthology edited by William Jones.


Selected Horror

Lon Prater's "Head Music"is a poignant tale of epic sadness...[O]ne of the most emotionally touching stories in this volume, and a wonderful beginning for a newer voice in fiction.

~ David Niall Wilson in Cemetery Dance