by Admin | Aug 22, 2019 | Audiobooks, Books, News + Events, Newsletter
This won’t take us long. As many of you know, I’ve accepted a position as writer-in residence at Newberry College in (duh) Newberry, South Carolina. And I’m glad I did—the campus is lovely, my colleagues are engaging company, and my students are...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Audiobooks, Books, Midcentury Erotica, News + Events, Newsletter, Non-Series Novels
“The Joys of Retirement,” eh? That’s really big type you used there. So? It’s almost as if you don’t believe it yourself. You know, if there were a special font for Irony I’d be on it like a mongoose on a cobra. My putative...
by Admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Anthologies, Books, Matthew Scudder, News + Events, Newsletter
Earlier this week, I told you all about the indefatigable Anthony Trollope, and how he filled whole library shelves by writing 250 words a day, day in and day out. I remember. As did I, but what I remembered turned out to be wrong. Which is to say that I stand...
by Admin | Jun 20, 2019 | Anthologies, Audiobooks, Books, News + Events, Newsletter
Sometime last year I started writing a new piece of fiction. It was very dark, very nasty, and more than a little disturbing, and when I was about 15,000 words into it, I found I didn’t want to write any more of it. While I wasn’t yet ready to toss it, I...
by Admin | Mar 19, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark, Books, News + Events, Newsletter
Well, which is it? Good or bad? That depends. Let me explain. I wish you would. Indeed. As most of you know, Subterranean Press is set to publish the only hardcover edition of my cross-genre anthology, At Home in the Dark. It’s limited to 500 signed and numbered...