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 LB | May 16, 2019 | Anthologies, Audiobooks, Books, Matthew Scudder
While you and I have lips and voices which are for kissing and to sing with who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with? Is that a serious question? It was my introduction to E. E. Cummings. in 1954 I was killing time in my...
by LB | Mar 23, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark, Books
Warren Moore III is an academic, although the photo might fool you. A professor of English literature at South Carolina’s Newberry College, he’s a medievalist and a great fan of Samuel Johnson. I don’t know how many of Dr.Johnson’s enthusiasts...
by LB | Mar 22, 2019 | Books
“Duane Swierczynki’s ‘Giant’s Despair’ is a neat bit of Appalachian family drama with drugs, murder and cover-ups at the core, along with a main character who is hampered in his actions by carpal tunnel syndrome gone too long untreated – too real a...
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...
by LB | Mar 16, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark, Books
Nancy Pickard on awards: “I don’t care what anybody says–awards are nice. It’s encouraging to get one; it’s a happy, satisfying moment after the long trudge of writing. Awards have helped my career, and lifted my spirits, and given me courage to go on. I’m...
by LB | Mar 14, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark, Books
It took me a while to find a usable photo of Richard Chizmar. There are plenty out there to choose from, but almost all of them show the man wearing a hat, and it’s usually a baseball cap, and more often than not the bill casts a shadow that renders everything...
by LB | Mar 12, 2019 | Books
As you may know, this new anthology owes its title to the dying words of the great O. Henry. “Turn up the lights,” he said to the crowd gathered at his deathbed. “I don’t want to go home in the dark.” And the sole criterion for stories,...
by Admin | Mar 10, 2019 | Anthologies, Books, Matthew Scudder, News + Events, Newsletter
Are you out of your mind? Well, that’s not really for me to say. Why do you ask? What kind of a header is that, telling your readers not to waste their time on your newsletter? I just thought— Or is it all some kind of devious reverse psychology? You tell...
by LB | Mar 8, 2019 | At Home in the Dark, Books
Jill D. Block wrote a couple of promising stories in college, then went off to law school and got sidetracked for thirty years as very successful attorney representing lenders in corporate real estate transactions, which is almost as exciting and gratifying as it...
