100 Electronic Jolts

100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories is now available in digital form from the good folks at Fictionwise.com for under 5 bucks. Pick one up before Monday (3/7) and you'll get a 15% discount. E-books are perfect for reading on a PDA or the computer screen. Fictionwise is a great e-book distributor for science-fiction, fantasy and horror titles; you can even buy some of my short stories there for as little as 49 cents. More information on 100 Jolts from the publisher.

Play Dead Cover

This is the mock-up for the cover for my next novel, Play Dead, coming out in August 2005 from Raw Dog Screaming Press (in hardcover and novelty "sculpture"-bound editions). It's still being developed, but I love the design...which looks just like it was taken out of the story. Play Dead's publisher is celebrating the book by sponsoring the "Play Dead Charity Poker Showdown" at World Horror Convention this coming April. 20 celebrity authors will battle each other at Texas Hold 'Em for the charity of their choice. Read 'em and weep! It's really early in production, and you can't order…

Forward Interview

Forward, the slick alumni magazine at Seton Hill University (where I teach) ran this excellent feature story on me this Fall, after I won the Bram Stoker Award. [Warning: clicking that link loads a 500kb .jpg image file converted from a .pdf document, so it might take a minute to appear]. I'm very lucky to work at a college that supports my horror writing so wonderfully. If you're a genre writer with a BA, you might consider our low-residency Master's program in Writing Popular Fiction. Horror/fantasy/sf writers who teach in our program include James Morrow, Gary Braunbeck, Tom Monteleone, and…

Coming in 2005

2004 was a killer year for me. I won my second Stoker Award, saw the 10th Anniversary re-publication of Grave Markings, published 100 Jolts, and generally got my groove on. And since this is the end of Volume #2 of The Goreletter, I thought I'd write a little summary of where we're headed in the year to come. I don't like to talk about projects in the works very often because I don't want to let any cats out the bag (or to make any promises I can't keep), but I'm revving up my novel writing engine this year. (I'd…