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…
Review: Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo
Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo is a novel that can be packed into a single word that is a viable review. The writing is simply elegant. The research is impeccable,…
Review: The Fisherman by John Langan
The Fisherman is an epic work of dark fantasy with twin converting timelines, a plot dragged from ancient myth and very deep darkness, and a host of very believable, very…
A Tale of Several Agents
I’ve been in this business a very, very long time, but in all of that time the one thing I have never had is a good agent. Before you assume…
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…
THE TOLL by Cherie Priest – Audiobook Review
I had absolutely no idea what to expect from this book. I’ve read Cherie Priest’s books before, but never knew here as an author of horror, or folk horror, as…
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…