Writing What Hurts – A CONTEST!
What’s Happening Just as a warning, I won’t always just talk about writing here. The world is a mess. This year has been strange in so many ways. Today I’m…
Writing What Hurts: September Rising
What’s Happening First, I want to assure everyone that, despite the fact I’m going through some personal things, it doesn’t affect Crossroad Press in any way. We are solid, self-sustained…
Writing What Hurts 8-24-2025
What’s Happening As I continue to send out resumes and seek the next day-job adventure, I’m concentrating on boosting sales for Crossroad Press, drinking more caffeine, and putting out more…
The News from Stately Wilson Manor
What I’m writing, have published, watching, reading, listening to and drawing What’s Happening This is one of those up and down years where the downs seem to be having a…
How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix – Review
How to Sell a Haunted House, while actually covering the topic in the title, is much, much more than a real-estate guide. As with most of Grady Hendrix’s books, the…
The Dismemembered by Jonathan Janz – Review
This was an unexpected treat. Jonathan Janz has found a way to channel the past. A lot of times when an author attempts to write, particularly at novel length, in…
The Wingspan of Severed Hands – by Joanna Koch – reviewed.
This novella is not a quick read. The opening sequence was so intense and visceral, covering deep emotion to intricate descriptions of things that will haunt me, that when I…
Stories of the Eye – Book Review
From the first few pages of “The Aneurytic by Andrew Wilmot,” I knew that I’d opened a book that was a step above. The prose is bold and out on…
The Hollows by Daniel Church – Book Review
This is straight on folk/creature horror that starts out of the gate with solid action and only heats up along the way. A strange old family on a farm with…
Human Monsters – Anthology Review
Human Monsters is a BIG collection with a wide range of styles and themes represented. Editors Sadie Harman and Ashley Sawyers have brought together a truly disturbing chorus of dark…