NEW PODCAST!

So excited to announce that I will be co-hosting the IT CAME FROM GENERATION X! podcast with the brilliant and hilarious Tom Dieboldt. Each week, we will cover rock n roll, movies, television, comic books, literature, and all-around sugary sweet pop culture. We will be joined by awesome guests and provide a respite from the absolute lunacy of our mad, mad, modern-day world. The first episode will be out soon!

The promo trailer for It Came from Generation X! Theme music by Chris Wimsett ©️ 2023 Logo by Leo Malkin ©️ 2023

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MY NEXT BOOK

My debut short story collection, Dark Black, will be released April 21, 2020 by Los Angeles-based Hat & Beard Press. I’m honored that it will be the first book in H & B’s new literary fiction imprint.

As of now, the book has 20 stories in it, including a few you may be familiar with like, “The Girl in the Funeral Parlor,” “Conjuring Danny Squires,” “Live Forever!” and several others that have been published in lit journals and anthologies. But there are also many new stories that I am so excited to share with you all. This book is Gothic pop-cultural horror. That’s the best way I can sum it up.

Finally, it was essential to me to include illustrations in the book. My mentor, Ray Bradbury, bucked publishing trends throughout his career by including beautiful illustrations by his brilliant, longtime collaborator Joseph Mugnaini. Publishers often don’t see the need for this extra step, but Ray did. And I do too. The world is increasingly populated with visual learners. Art adds that next level of quality and evocation to a book. I am honored to be working with illustrator and printmaker, Dan Grzeca, well-known for his rock music prints for artists such as the Black Keys, Sharon van Etten, U2 and others. Here, I share the cover image for my next book, Dark Black.

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