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…
Night’s Master – Tanith Lee – Audiobook Review
This is a re-read for me. I have loved Tanith Lee’s work since I was a young man, and revisiting this book brought it all back to me. The dark…
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 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…
We Came From an Island – Cynthia Pelayo
It’s wonderful when an author takes the time to share some of the very personal things that are parts of them. We Came From an Island is a small, fairly…
Growing Up Dead in Texas – Stephen Graham Jones
There is so much to unpack in this book. Author Stephen Graham Jones takes readers back to his childhood, to a dusty Texas town where lives are lived one cotton…
Review of SPINAL REMAINS by Chad Lutzke
Spinal Remains by Chad Lutzke, Cemetery Gates Media; 1st edition (August 9, 2022) This collection is a not-so-friendly neighborhood of stories. Lutzke has crafted all the pieces in this collection…