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7/17/2008 - My review of Thomas Pendleton's novel Mason is now online on FearZone.com.

7/14/2008 - Contracts have been signed for a novel in Hard Case Crime's forthcoming Adventures of Gabriel Hunt series, created by Charles Ardai and due out in the summer of 2009. Stay tuned!

6/30/2008 - A glowing review of Jack Haringa Must Die! is up now at FearZone.com.

5/27/2008 - Jack Haringa Must Die!: Twenty-Eight Original Tales of Madness, Terror and Strictly Grammatical Murder, edited by yours truly, has been released! This is a benefit anthology to raise funds for the Shirley Jackson Awards. You can order it right from their website here.

5/23/2008 - Two new items are online at FearZone.com: a review of David Wellington's novel Monster Planet and an interview with Wellington.

5/4/2008 - A terrific new review of General Slocum's Gold has appeared on the Belleville News-Democrat's Culture Geek Blog.

4/10/2008 - General Slocum's Gold is now available for purchase at the online retailer Horror Mall. And of course it's still available directly from the publisher too.

4/9/2008 - The Reading Room at Horror Fiction News Network is now running a free excerpt of General Slocum's Gold.

4/3/2008 - My "Must Have List" has been posted on the Horror Fiction News Network site as part of their ongoing series of book recommendations by authors, editors and publishers. See which books I chose!

3/14/2008 - My review of Michael Kelly's collection, Scratching the Surface, is now up at FearZone.com.

2/15/2008 - General Slocum's Gold has officially been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award! Winners will be announced on Saturday, March 29 at an awards ceremony at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City.

2/11/2008 - Two new reviews are now up at FearZone.com: Laird Barron's collection The Imago Sequence and Other Stories and Paul G. Tremblay and Sean Wallace's anthology Bandersnatch.

2/4/2008 - Mark your calendars: On April 12 I will be speaking at the Garden State Horror Writers meeting in New Jersey. The talk will be free and open to the public.

1/25/2008 - My interview with editor Ellen Datlow is now live at FearZone.com.

1/23/2008 - General Slocum's Gold is on the Preliminary Ballot for the HWA's Bram Stoker Awards in the Long Fiction category! Will it progress to the Final Ballot and become a nominee? Stay tuned.

1/15/2008 - General Slocum's Gold was included in Gary Braunbeck's "Best Of" Reading List for 2007!

1/7/2008 - My review of Ellen Datlow's anthology Inferno is now live at FearZone.com.

12/29/2007 - The General Slocum's Gold love continues. It was just named FearZone.com's Best Short Story of 2007!

12/6/2007 - General Slocum's Gold was named one of Brian Keene's Top 10 Books of 2007!

11/19/2007 - My interview with filmmaker Sandy Clark, producer of the documentary American Scary, is now running at FearZone.com.

11/7/2007 - A new, very good review of General Slocum's Gold has surfaced, this time by Daniel Robichaud at HorrorReader.com.

11/5/2007 - I just signed a second contract with Susie Bright, this time for my story "Comeback" to appear in her forthcoming anthology X: An Erotic Treasury. It's scheduled for release in October 2008 from Chronicle Books.

10/26/2007 - Speaking of FearZone.com, they've posted an online video of me reading a snippet of General Slocum's Gold as part of their continuing Author Reading Series. Check it out here.

10/25/2007 - FearZone.com is running an interview I did with Sarah Langan, author of The Keeper and The Missing. Sarah said I asked the best questions of anyone who's interviewed her so far. I bet she says that to all the interviewers!

8/19/2007 - I just discovered that my story "Comeback" was excerpted by Playboy for an Erotic Book Passages feature! Unfortunately, I don't know exactly which issue it was in. If you find out, let me know! Meanwhile, I'm tickled by the attention this little story keeps getting!

8/15/2007 - The pictures page has finally been updated!

8/13/2007 - The Literary Word weighs in with another rave for General Slocum's Gold review.

8/1/2007 - A superb review of General Slocum's Gold is now running at Horror World.