FREAKCIDENTS: Free on Election Day 2016!

The presidential campaigns this year have been something of a freaking circus and a nutty free-for-all. So I've decided to make my book, Freakcidents, free on Election Day to all you nutty Americans. Just head on over to amazon.com to download the kindle version of this Bram Stoker Award-winning horror poetry collection anytime on November 8th, 2016. Aside from a new president, you'll get thirty disturbing mutants for the price of air. Get your copy now! But promise you'll do me just one favor in return: VOTE! Offer is for one day only and ends at midnight (PST), when the…

HWA Presents: Horror Poetry Showcase III

The Horror Writers Association has recently released the latest entries in their neat series of horror poetry volumes, Horror Poetry Showcase, Volume III, edited by David Cowen. The book is a trove of the weird and thrilling, written exclusively by authors well-versed on the dark side. All the contributors are HWA members, including myself, Lucy A. Snyder, Rose Blackthorn, Peter Adam Salomon, G.O. Clark, Chad Hensley, E.F. Schrader, Denise Dumars, Alessandro Manzetti, Kathryn Ptacek, Corrine De Winter, Bruce Boston... about 50 all totalled...just too many more to list! See for yourself. It is available in ebook and paperback editions from…

Freakcidents Returns!

Here's the new book trailer for Freakcidents -- now available in ebook and audiobook for the first time... Read the full report, with sample audio and photos over on the Mastication Publications announcement for the book. ALERT: an Amazon Giveaway for a random chance to win a free copy of the ebook edition of Freakcidents was posted on 8/6/2016. These prizes usually go quick... ACT FAST for your chance to win! https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/003644a17065a0f0 Here's the write-up I sent out to subscribers to The Goreletter: Longtime readers probably have heard of Freakcidents -- my collection of impossible mutants and truly freaky freaks.…

Shared Psychosis: An Interview with Sara Tantlinger

One of the things I enjoy about National Poetry Writing Month (aka "NaPoWriMo") is Gerald So's "30 Days of the 5-2" Crime Poetry blog tour. He asks poets and readers to contribute something for a calendar day related to his journal of crime poetry. I've participated in the past (and I also published a new piece at the 5-2 just last month for "Pi Day") but this time around I decided to do something different: conduct an interview. As luck would have it, I knew one of the recent contributors to the journal, because she's working with me as a…