Northern Frontier The illustration for the story I contributed to the September release of a new Horrorific Tales anthology. Northern Frontier is a Christian version of the Boy Scouts that my parents sent me to as a young child. It's in...

Splatterpunk Zine's controversial pre-COVID release. I figured my girlfriend, Marell Kim, would be the perfect model for the story "Things Remembered" by Brian Keene in issue 13 of Splatterpunk Zine. It details how friends find the horrible abuse (in a...

The latest convention I'm attending This weekend I'll be at the Dallas Authorcon. For the third time, I'm visiting, and it's getting bigger every year. Producer Merrill David is also releasing his new anthology, Tumble Bleed, which includes my story, Flannel...

Christmas is Cancelled. Early 1980 was a whole different world. It seems like a lifetime ago and even another reality. One piece snow suits, massive blizzards, drifts of snow burying everything, and overgrown woods whose untamed fauna swarmed in around...

You're DeadBack in 1997, I did the cover for an issue of Maximum Rock and Roll entitled"You're Dead". This was for the main article, which accused the government of creating the AIDs virus. I recall speaking with publisher Tim...

Free expo tables! We are looking for more indie comic artists and authors. I have some free booths to give away to attract more artists who want to promote their projects at the Dead Man's Hand Expo. If you...

War is hell. We all know that. But unless you were a veteran who saw it on the front lines (like the World War 2 vets who cried during the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan), it was often...

The government in hot pursuit! I first got the bug to rebuild trucks when, as a teenage punk rocker living in a bad neighborhood in DC, I got a small settlement from an accident, and used it to buy a...

Monica was always my biggest fan and greatest supporter. I make sure to thank her in every book I release. She died in 2007 in a hit-and-run, and the NYPD mangled the investigation (most likely because she was a...

The Great State of Texas. I remember one rainstorm so intense, I couldn't even see the sides of the road. It was spring, I lived in Virginia then, and the watery deluge was so intense I didn't know where I...