New Deal on The Black Seas of Infinity! For a limited 4 days only, my cosmic horror novel is a free download on Amazon at https://tinyurl.com/y8h89eb7 starting tomorrow! I'm looking to score an elusive Bookbub deal and need more reviews! Anyone interested,...

Pulp adventure magazines of those long-gone days! Does anyone remember those old pulp magazines? The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Weird Tales? They were the hot thing on newsstands before comic books, and always featured heavily illustrated stories. The first Batman is a...

Promotion on Bookbub for my new anthology. I'll be premiering the release of my new cosmic horror anthology, The Joke is on Mankind, through Bookbub A whole slew of talented authors Ryan C. Thomas Patrick Lacey Tommy Clark Merrill David  Nat...

Promo fo my new book on Bookbub! I want to run a BookBub promo for my cosmic horror series. Bookbub is pretty selective, but what helps is having plenty of followers. To that end, anyone wanting to help me can sign up...

War in Space! Like many kids in my era, I wanted to be an astronaut growing up! When I realized they were just the test dummies for the space program, I wanted to be a rocket scientist. Taking advanced calculus, I...

Long Forgotten. The rear cover for my anthology novel "The Never Dead". Oil on wood, 14" by 16". I pictured this as the gate to the long-buried remains of R'yleh, the ancient city of the Elder gods. If you want to get...

I lived for a few years near Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. When D.C. was the murder capital of the US and Marrion Barry was the major (the same guy caught smoking crack with a hooker in a hotel...

Christmas is Cancelled. I always viewed the character of Santa as being highly questionable. For my short story "Christmas is Cancelled", I imagined him as this solitary, archaic figure who just does what he is always required come Christmas season. As...

The horrors of forsaken land. When I was in elementary school, my Dad was attending West Point, and we lived in a rural military neighborhood, occupying an old, two-story Victorian-style house. It was atop a hill, next to a...

The Key Bridge. As a teenage punk rocker, I crossed the Key Bridge from the affluent buildings of Virginia into the downtown Georgetown of Washington, DC. The dichotomy between the two could not be clearer. Virginia was ordered, civilized, and very...