I’m happy to announce that Blackfire Rising has finally been resurrected and is now shambling in bookstores and websites near you. It was an experiment. A way to create a better soldier. Colder, more efficient. But some things shouldn’t be altered, and some creatures are best left to myth. The dead know no peace,…
Tag: fiction
Cover reveal: Blackfire Rising
Now that the Blackfire event at Midsouthcon is past, you all get to see the cover for Blackfire Rising. The reading went very well, and I got to read some of my favorite scenes in the book. I’m very grateful to Midsouthcon for giving me the time and space to discuss the resurrection of Blackfire,…
St. Louis is now WEIRD
I’m happy to share that the St. Louis Writers Guild anthology, Weird STL, is now live on Amazon! Available for only 99c, this anthology includes some creepy, unusual, slipstream or downright WEIRD stories by the funky members of the Guild, including yours truly. I want to make it clear: My story is not a COVID story….
September Linkspam: It’s in the syllabus
Holy late newsletters, Batman! Remember when I told you folks that I was a tad overcommitted for the fall? I wasn’t kidding. I ended up with nine classes at three universities for the fall, and that’s at least three to four more classes than any sane person should try to teach and four to five…
Dreadmire rises from the dead!
It’s aliiiiiive! The anniversary re-release of Dreadmire is now available online and wherever fine books are sold. Excerpt: None of them were really muka anymore. Once Alesia had thought only the craziest of hermits would voluntarily remain in Dreadmire. Why would anyone choose such a filthy, wild, barbaric place inhabited by such strange and dangerous creatures? Why…
June 2024 Linkspam
With the spring conferences done and the summer tour looming, it’s been kind of quiet here in the Tower. I’ve enjoyed this uncharacteristic spell of Not Traveling, being able to settle in and bake things and write things and… cough my lungs out? Stupid bronchitis. This is why we can’t have nice things. Fortunately that’s…
A haunted swamp, a dancer and the Angel of Death…
It sounds like the opening of a joke, but there are three new items up for order (or preorder) this month! First: We are now accepting preorders for Dreadmire, the 15th anniversary edition of my first quest fantasy. It’s a dark one – not for the kiddos – and I’ve always had a great fondness for…
March 2024 Linkspam: Return to the swamp
In the late 2000s, I wrote a media tie-in novel titled Dreadmire. It was a dark fantasy adventure tied to a d20 RPG published by Spellbinder Games, sourcebook by Randy Richards. The medievalesque high fantasy Randy created was inspired by the ecology and culture of the Louisiana bayous, and I found it a fascinating setting. I…
The One Where Elizabeth Wins
I’m honored to share that I’ve been awarded an AWP Community Scholarship to attend the 2024 conference in Kansas City. I was lucky to attend last year’s conference in Seattle, and I absolutely loved it. AWP is one hell of a conference, with about 25 panels per hour aimed for writers and writing programs. It’s…
New items in the store!
First: We are about to stock copies of parABnormal Magazine, December 2023 edition, which includes an original short story by moi. We only have a small quantity coming in and likely won’t be available for long, so if you want one, you might want to snag it soon! Click here to order. Also, the site…