Writing Prompt (8-28-08)

Write a folk song about the zombie apocalypse– just the lyrics; you don’t have to do anything too fancy.

Post your folk song (or a link to your song) in the comments section.

Blatant Promotion: Obama, McCain, and More

 

Many heads will be turned to the Democratic National Convention being held this week in Denver, so I thought I would take this opportunity for a little blatant promotion on behalf of my girlfriend. Stay with me – it makes sense. You see, she creates graphic designs for clothing, and some of her chibi designs are politically themed. You can find designs for Obama and McCain – and even Clinton. Check out the picture of Obama below.

Of course, she also makes pirate and ninja gear and she is working on a line of zombie designs as well.  And yes, I’ll definitely promote that here as well.  Click here to check out some of her other designs. She can even do some custom stuff if you need.

New Voices in Horror Volume 1

The e-book version is now available! My short story “Anatomy of the Terrible” is featured in New Voices in Horror Volume 1, an anthology envisioned and put together by David “Doc” Byron and edited by Corey Scales. The anthology will boast quite a few great authors, including Joseph D’Lacey (author of Meat) and Simon Wood (author of Working Stiffs, Accidents Waiting to Happen, and Scrubs, which he wrote under the pseudonym Simon Janus). It promises to be a fun and frightening read.

Click the cover to head on over to the New Voices in Fiction website and purchase the e-book.

“Anatomy of the Terrible” is the story of Kagan, a man who is on the run for brutal murders that he didn’t commit…or did he? His fragmented memories recall something else, something supernatural. And now an unseen force is beckoning him to the New Mexico desert.

New Voices in Horror Volume 1

Literate Machine Hosts “Confession of a Righteous Serial Killer”

A new website, Literate Machine, offered to take my short story “Confession of a Righteous Serial Killer” and host it on their site, where people can download it for a whopping zero dollars and zero cents. That’s right, completely FREE. As some of you might remember, “Confession…” is one of my older short stories, one that was published a long time ago in the magazine Black Petals. It is a simple revenge story, but I still like it.

So, how did my story come to be placed on Literate Machine? Well, the circumstances surrounding it are a bit synchronistic. Several days ago, I was perusing the site of an excellent dark fiction writer named Kevin Lucia. I noticed that he had written a comic called The Sliding and that I could see some of it on Literate Machine. It was late, so I decided that I would visit the site the next day.

Well, when I got up the next morning and checked my e-mail I had a friend request on MySpace from Literate Machine. Strange, right? So I accepted them and shortly after, I was contacted about “Confession of a Righteous Serial Killer.” Weird how the world works, huh?

If you want to download my story, click here, and then check out all of the wonderful works available on their website. You can find short stories, novels, comic books, and more. Most of the stuff is free or very affordable.

My Current Reading List (8-17-08)

 

Here are a few of the books that I’m currently reading, or will be reading in the near future.

 

Empire by David Dunwoody

Ghost Walk by Brian Keene

Transformation by Whitley Strieber

Dark Father The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli (as soon as I get it, which should be next week)

Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

Return of the Gunfighter by Max Brand

 

What are other folks reading? What should be on my list next?