Category: Metaposts

Nonfiction ramblings, updates, and discussions.

Metapost: More Audio Readings

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Jeff Clement and the good folks over at AuralStimulation have just sent me the following video, an awesome reading of “Dust” with music, stunning, eerie imagery, multiple actors and sound effects. Here it is, with my commentary, which is simply “wow”.

I’m a big fan of modern and old radio theater, and I think Jeff and company really nailed the aesthetic. There’s a lively community of people reading creepypastas on the YouTubes, and I’ve shared a handful before, but here’s a list I’ve compiled of all the ones I’ve found read from my stories. Hit “View Full Article” to see the rest.

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Tom Festo’s “The Algorithm”

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It is my sincere pleasure to share with you Tom Festo’s film adaptation of “The Algorithm.”

My huge thanks to Tom, Luis Filgueira, Mike Randazzo, Zach Heyde, and everyone else involved for letting me share this with you all.

For me, one of the many wonderful surprises was Zach Heyde’s creepy score. It reminds me in the best way of the “Session 9” score. The original soundtrack is available on Zach’s bandcamp page, name your price. I’m listening to it, right now.

New Release Monday – “Shifters” and “Another 100 Horrors” now available.

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The latest anthology from Hazardous press is now available on Kindle or in Paperback. “Shifters: A Charity Anthology”  includes a reworked version of my story “Collision”, which among other things, adresses the problem of conservation of mass among skinwalkers in the Arizona desert. Among other things. Shifters includes stories from  Chris Larsen, Doug Murano, Rose Blackthorn, Jay Wilburn, and D. Alexander Ward, as well as David Wellington, Aaron Gudmunson, Dane Hatchell, Mandy DeGeit, Kris Freestone, Adam Millard, Brent Nichols, Terry Alexander, Steve Voelker, Max Booth III, Matthew Wilson, Beryl Knight, Lisamarie Lamb, Chantal Boudreau, Dana Wright, Lori Michelle, Rie Sheridan Rose, Dawn Napier, Jen White, Cameron Johnston, E.L. Kemper, Amanda Pillar, Jonah Buck, Emma Whitehall, Christine Morgan, Susannah Carlson, Robin Deffendall, Tracie McBride, and Erzabet Bishop. Cover art by Glenn Chadbourne, back cover art by Diana Whiley, interior illustrations by Kris Freestone and Leia Napier.

All proceeds from the sales of this anthology will go to the American Humane Association’s Red Star Rescue Team, providing disaster response services for pets and domestic animals.
ImageAlso newly released, “Another 100 Horrors” from Cruentus Libri Press. 100 stories from 100 writers, all exactly 100 words. My new (short) story “Shipwreck” is a part of this collection, and it’s available for both Kindle and paperback.

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In future news, I am completing work on a historical horror story about the Siege of Constantinople and have completed a first draft of a very odd “Fields of Ur”. It’s still very very rough, but if you’re interested in seeing a completely unrevised initial draft, and would like to offer feedback, please send me an email and I would be happy to share it with you.

This autumn should see at least two more exciting releases: “The Blues” will be featured on the Psuedopod Podcast, and a version of “Before” will appear in Nightfall Magazine’s inaugural issue.

As always, if you’re so inclined to share your feedback, positive or negative, all us contributors would greatly appreciate it, either on Amazon or Goodreads.

“Horrific History” available on Kindle and Paperback

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Hello all

This is just to say that I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold.

Oh, and also, the latest collection from Hazardous Press, “Horrific History” is out on Kindle and on Paperback. It contains history themed tales of horror by such authors as Chris Larsen, Doug Murano, Rose Blackthorn, and Jay Wilburn. It also includes my dust bowl story, creatively titled “Dust”, as well as stories from Brent Abell, Pete Aldin, Jason Andrew, Monette Bebow-Reinhard, Rebecca L. Brown, Deborah Drake, T. Fox Dunham, Gwendolyn Edward, Aaron J. French, Tara Fox Hall, Ken MacGregor, Lynne MacLean, Adam Millard, Douglas J. Moore, Doug Murano, Christopher S. Nelson, Brent Nichols, Emerian Rich, Stephen D. Rogers, Julianne Snow, Jenny Twist, D. Alexander Ward, David Williamson and Lee Clark Zumpe.

Doug is doing a series of Q+A with the various contributors, and I’m sending him some rambling nonsense right now, stop by and take a look.

Have a look at the free sample, and if you’re so inclined to share your feedback, positive or negative, all us word-arrangers would greatly appreciate it, either on Amazon or Goodreads.

Stills from “The Algorithm”, a film by Tom Festo

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In the past few years, about a half dozen people have emailed me, wanting to adapt a story I’ve written for film. My answer has always been yes, but so far, not much has come of it (with the exception of one really interesting script adaptation of “Roadwork”.) This weekend, Tom Festo (twitter:@bigleaguetom), director/writer of “The Algorithm  (based on my story of the same name), sent me these behind-the-scenes production pictures, and graciously let me share them here. I’m very excited to see the final product.


 The Algorithm, by Tom Festo

I’m really taken by this image, the symmetrical framing, the small cooler (such a nice touch), and a very creepy looking house. Location scouts are unsung heroes. I’m not just saying that because I’m related to one.

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Metapost: Releases and Revision

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I hope this update finds you all as well as I have been.

In the past few months, I’ve had two anthologies released from Cruentus Libri Press, and another story featured in the Mad Scientist Journal. If you’ll forgive the self promotion, here are the links to read “Zero” at Mad Scientist Journal, or to purchase either anthology from Amazon:

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Metapost: 2012 – The First (Serious) Year

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2012 was a hell of a year.

I didn’t meant to quit writing. But it happened. A month of not writing became six, and it was okay, I told myself. It was a difficult time, and it would surely end. Then I stopped justifying it to myself, and finally, stopped even worrying about justifying it. That’s how I quit writing for well over a year.

Part of it was from lack of a plan. When I started, I challenged myself to write a short story every week. This led to many a 4am night, blearily editing absolute nonsense, but it worked. Then I decided to give myself the room to play with longer ideas, and removed the arbitrary deadlines. Soon I was finishing work on a monthly basis, then bi-monthly, then it might take me a half a year. And this was when there was nothing else required of me. The moment fatherhood and a difficult pregnancy were my dominant concerns, writing slipped away.

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Happy Halloween

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Briefest of updates:

In the next month I will have two more stories appearing in anthologies, and another in the magazine Mad Scientist’s Journal. I’ll let you know when they are released, and I would appreciate, as always, that if you like what you read, you simply recommend it to someone else who you think may enjoy it.

Additionally, “A Quick Bite of Flesh” will be available for free on Kindle, for a single day, coming very soon.

As far as new stories, Runner B inches ever closer to completion (seriously), and I am working on the beginning of two new pieces: “The Fields of Ur,” an unusual science-fantasy story, and “Green Tunnel,” an Appalachian Trail backpacking horror story. And I’m just breaking ground on a fully plotted novel: “Cradle”, a genre-blending riff on blue-collar deep-space horror, haunted houses (in space), the psychology of music and language, genetics in population bottlenecks, zombies, solar-system wide apocalypse, and the destiny of life beyond homeworlds.

Thank you, and Happy Halloween!

Release: “A Quick Bite of Flesh” An Anthology of Zombie Flash Fiction

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Hello All,

Friday marked the release of “A Quick Bite of Flesh” from Hazardous Press, containing a version of my story Barricade.

It’s currently available on Kindle. UPDATE: And now available in paperback.

If you’ve read it, and enjoyed it, I’m sure all the authors would appreciate a few good words on Amazon or on Goodreads. Also, I have a Goodreads author page now. I’m not sure why, but this delights me to no end.

Thanks, as always, for reading.