News:

“Necessity,” a funny bad bathroom horror story, was selected for the Books of Horror Community Anthology Part 1. You can pre-order it here, for release January 23.

You can also read “The Coffee Pots are Empty and All the Zombies are Here,” another funny horror story, this time work horror, in Tales of Sley House 2025. You can purchase the ebook or the paperback directly from the publishing company or from Amazon. My story is featured right on the cover, which is cool. This apparently came out in September, but it slipped by me.

Works in Progress:

Finished fixing/editing the Dracula retelling. I’m kind of leaning toward self-publication sometime next year, mostly for creative control and because I’m watching some nightmares unfold for other people struggling with getting their rights back, but I’m still not a hundred percent sure how I feel about going that route.

These edits took longer than I thought they would, so I’m going to have to push May Cooler Heads Prevail back again until after I do the double edit of Never & Forever (Meridian Book 8), because if I wait much longer, I’m not going to meet the deadline I promised for getting that in.

I am writing a piece of flash as a palate cleanser, but as soon as that’s done, I’ll start on the N&F edits.

Books I’m Reading:

Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin (I’d finish this, but I’m honestly not sure where I put it)
The Shining by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Christmas playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Holiday Road
Troll 2
Renfield
Primate
Stranger Things series
Resident Alien series
Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Free series (finished)

Poem of the Week: (throwback to January 2023)

the frost caught the spider
by surprise in her parlor
sending a blast of crystal
and the tiniest of icicle
across the net of her web
leaving both host and guests dead
in frozen gossamer lace
glimmering in the rise of day