Hello Friends,

I don’t make a habit of blogging, nor posting more than a pic or two I share on Facebook every once in awhile when I see a cool rock and roll photo or one showing a country I’d like to visit some day. The reason for this, is that deep down, I want to mostly show only my stories and reviews. I work hard on both, and it seems to cheapen it a bit if I show my “raw drafting.” I also want to avoid politics and “self-help” posts, though I appreciate those who craft either.

My life is interesting nowadays, so I don’t think it would hurt to mention a few things. My 2021 horror collection – Dancing With Tombstones, sold pretty well, and the same publisher, Cemetery Dance, has already agreed to publish my serial killer novel, The Winslow Sisters, January of 2024. I also published through Night Shade/Skyhorse, the serial killer novel The Sculptor, which came out about a year ago. I have written ten of the Bio/Reviews and Press Releases for new signings at Eclipse Records over the year, and I am writing a new horror collection, untitled at the moment, though I am considering, A Salute to Urban Legends and Twisted Campfire Tales, as this is also the title of one of the best stories so far. I am up to 30,000 words, aiming (of course) for 80,000 by the end of the summer.

I recently signed with a literary agent for a non-horror book that was conceived from the other parts of my life: teaching college and sports. The title is The Color of Your Fight-Game, and we have begun shopping this to major publishers. The quickie back cover synopsis is something to the effect of: A college English professor lost his wife and nineteen year old son in a car accident seven years ago, and he is hired to teach Comp 101 to the entire women’s softball team at The University of Delaware. He becomes a father figure to them, as they fill the empty spaces of his life in this exciting, sentimental sports drama. The tagline I want to go with is: The color is fire! yet I need my agent to weigh in on this.

It is a wonderful, strange adventure to be shopped to these huge publishing houses as compared to the horror specialty publishers like Cemetery Dance, Night Shade/Skyhorse, and Hippocampus, though these small market presses have been good to me. I feel that the adventure is just beginning, and I look forward to this part of the journey.