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What *Not* to Do When You’re Promoting Your Debut

December 12, 2023 admin Leave a comment

Oh look. It’s more author behaving badly drama!  Cait Corrain, a YA author whose debut was scheduled to come out…

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Posted in: Publishing, Rants, Writing Filed under: Authors Behaving Badly, Cait Corrain, Never Ever Do This

The Agented Author Roleplaying Game: The Only Way to Win is Not to Play

November 10, 2023 admin Leave a comment

As I’ve talked about before, I wasted a year of my career with a schmagent—a well-meaning individual who starts a…

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Posted in: Publishing, Writing Filed under: Don't Do What I Did, publishing, Writing, writing advice

Revisiting THE FIRE BEFORE

September 26, 2023 admin Leave a comment

“When the cursed entities called the Fury compel people in her hometown to commit escalating acts of violence, Kindred Walker…

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Posted in: Pitch Wars, Writing Filed under: Old Stuff, Pitch Madness, Pitch Wars, publishing, The Fire Before, Writing

StokerCon Roundup

July 5, 2023 admin Leave a comment

I’ve attended StokerCon, the Horror Writers Association’s yearly convention, via my computer the last two years. This year it was in…

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Posted in: Events, Horror, The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill, Writing Filed under: Events, horror, StokerCon, The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill, Writing

Out Now: THE SHADOW DANCERS OF BRIXTON HILL

June 13, 2023 admin Leave a comment

Authors know that nothing in publishing happens fast…except when it does. Last spring, I first got the idea of a troupe…

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Posted in: Horror, Publishing, The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill, Writing Filed under: Buy My Stuff (Please), The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill, Writing, Writing News

Unpopular Opinions: Why I Don’t Like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

June 5, 2023 admin Leave a comment

In all honesty, I’m not sure how unpopular this opinion is these days. I mean, Stephen King himself famously disliked…

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Posted in: Horror, Pop Culture, Reviews Filed under: movies, Reviews, The Shining, Unpopular Opinions

Bad Book Reviews, Part 3

June 1, 2023 admin Leave a comment

  Good grief, people. I keep telling y’all not to respond to bad book reviews, but you keep doing it…

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Posted in: Publishing, Rants, Reviews, Writing Filed under: Authors Behaving Badly, Never Ever Do This, publishing, rants, Reviews

Writing and the Whisper Network

May 16, 2023 admin Leave a comment

Last weekend, all hell broke loose over a scandal involving New Leaf Literary Agency. New Leaf abruptly axed an agent…

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Posted in: Publishing, Rants, Writing Filed under: publishing, rants, Writing

Cover Reveal: THE SHADOW DANCERS OF BRIXTON HILL

April 29, 2023 admin Leave a comment

  So publishing is wild, y’all.  Nothing happens…  Nothing happens…  Nothing happens…  And then everything happens at once.  If you’re…

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Posted in: Horror, Publishing, The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill, Writing Filed under: The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill, Writing, Writing News

Coming in 2024: THE KEEPER OF THE KEY

April 27, 2023 admin Leave a comment

OK, that thing I said in a previous entry about having better publishing luck in odd-numbered years? I was kinda…

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Posted in: The Keeper of the Key Filed under: horror, Parliament House Press, The Keeper of the Key, Writing News

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