The name of the story is “The Last Straw.” It is not one of my more famous stories. It is certainly not one of the more successful. I wrote it twenty years ago, spent ten years trying to sell it, and ultimately sold it to the Tampa Tribune. You can find it it in my […]
Letter enclosed with a signed copy of the first Gustav Gloom novel sent to a young fan who had a slow start reading but was able to claim that book as the first… novel she had ever finished and loved. Dear ___________: Your teacher has told me that you loved the first Gustav Gloom book […]
Available at Nightmare Magazine starting May 4, “The Old Horror Writer,” a masochistic portrait of how I might very well end up. Excerpt: “He’s an old man now, twenty years removed from his last novel and ten from his last short story; he’s no longer a member of HWA or of SFWA, and the agency […]
