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Steven Graham Jones’ Ethereal Slasher
I’ve been dying to write about Stephen Graham Jones’ book, The Only Good Indians. The problem is, every time I start writing about something specific, someone else gets to it first! That’s the downside with such […]

The Terror Feels REal!
In this week’s column on Suspense Magazine, I write about Alma Katsu’s The Deep and delve into the benefits of research when writing fiction. Katsu is a fantastic writer, and the details she puts into […]

Writing the Dinner Scene
I have a new blog post up on Suspense Magazine featuring Rachel Harrison’s awesome book, The Return. I also have a writing activity that teaches you how to create a “dinner scene” in your stories! […]

Buy Mr. Monkey by Francine Prose
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical. Mister […]

Buy The Nightmare Stacks
After stumbling upon the algorithm that turned him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwartz was drafted by the Laundry, Britain’s secret counter-occult agency that’s humanity’s first line of defense against the forces […]