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A gang steals a dangerous designer drug in a bid to control the streets of New Old Philly, a demonically-possessed warrior battles hellspawn in a post-cataclysmic world, and a victim of the inevitable zombie apocalypse writes a final letter to his ex-wife. Seems the gods of genre have blessed me with a perfect trifecta of [...]
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A few weeks ago I received some copies of Every Day Fiction’s second annual year’s best anthology, and I’ve been reading a story or two here and there. I’m not done yet, but so far the anthology has proven to be as enjoyable and rewarding as its predecessor. Containing 100 flash fiction stories from EDF’s [...]
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So, hot off the presses (er, html) is the news that the Harper’s Pen winner for 2009 is John C. Hocking’s ‘The Face in the Sea,’ appearing in Black Gate #13. Now, as a finalist for the award myself, obviously John wasn’t my first choice for a win . . . but [...]
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Well, this is a surprise. Today I got an email from Jeff Crook telling me that my story appearing in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly’s third issue, The Last of His Kind, is one of eight finalists for the Harper’s Pen Award. The Harper’s Pen Award is the new name for what was once the Ham-Sized Fist [...]
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Lately I’ve been noticing clicks on an outgoing link to Amazon from my site to a . . . well, a spear. I was baffled, really, as I didn’t remember linking to Cold Steel’s assegai in any posts — and if I had wanted to demonstrate what an assegai was, for instance in a review [...]
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I’ve been reviewing each issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly as it comes out (which you can read here and here), and have been really impressed with both the quality and the variety of the offerings on display. This time around I have the pleasant task of announcing my own inclusion in the issue, with a [...]
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Shameless brag time — two of my stories, Davy’s Toy Box and The Goon Eternal, have been selected by the brilliant and discerning connoisseurs of all things flash over at Every Day Fiction for their second annual ‘Best of’ anthology. I had the pleasure of appearing in EDF’s first anthology as well, and it’s a [...]
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Over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today I have a post that recalls my misspent youth with some fondness. You see, it turns out all that time I spent reading Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks and Warhammer’s White Dwarf Magazine, I was actually learning how to write flash fiction. Yup, it’s true, all those little snipets of [...]
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