This site isn’t updated often, unless I have some important publishing news. For regular updates on my writing, check out my blog at http://gristleandsmoke.blogspot.com.
I would, however, like to introduce some of my recent journalistic work, writing on workplace issues for The Examiner. New articles are published two or three times a week.
As of last night, my second accepted story, Clearing, is online! You can click here to get to it directly (with no way to back out to their main site…I think Abandoned Towers is one of the last of the heavily-frame-laden websites in the web-o-tron), or you can go to the Abandoned Towers site, and click on the Science Fiction section on the left.
Tags: abandoned towers, clearing, fiction
Niteblade: Lost Innocence
Every fifth issue of Niteblade Fantasy and Horror Magazine is a print issue featuring readers’ picks from past issues, along with winners of a contest judged by Niteblade’s editor Rhonda Parrish. This year I was lucky enough, along with six other authors, to have my short story Billy Don’t Like Clowns selected.
Lost Innocence is currently available on Lulu, and will hopefully be up on Amazon soon. (UPDATE: It is now live on Amazon)
Below is the ToC:
Chosen via Poll:
Illuminating Hell by Christopher Hivner
Dark Angel by R. K. Gemienhardt
The Rusalka by Ian R. Faulkner
Killing Mittens by Milan Smith
The Dreadlobster by Joshua Parmenter
Prison Darkness by Nathanael Green
The Seventh Day by Patrick Hurley
Corpse Candles by Richard H. Fay
Diary of Death by Alexis Child
Imaginarium by Aurelio Rico Lopez II
Chosen by Rhonda from past issues:
Philosopher Quinn by Jens Rushing
The Gnome’s Spectacles by Chris Burdett
Joy by David Buchan
Oil Change by Greg Schwartz
The Minotaur’s Breath by N.C. Whitehead
Dan’s Blaze by Matthew Longo
In Bloom by Kristine Ong Muslim
Wicked Love by J.R. Pearson
What We Give by BD Wilson
Shine On by J.A. Tyler
Winners of the Lost Innocence Anthology Contest:
Stone Soup by Joshua Gage
She of the Haunted Eyes by Kevin Miller
A Child’s First Casket of Rhyme by J H Hobson
The Ten Second Rule by Felicity Dowker
Outside Her Window, It Waits by John Bruni
Billy Don’t Like Clowns by Jeremy Brooks
Pick up a copy as either a downloadable PDF or a softcover…and enjoy the show!
