Category: News

“The Music of Timothy Shean” is now up at Dark Recesses Magazine. I love the look of this magazine and it’s a thrill to be at the top of their page right now. I hope you all enjoy the story, and share a link with friends. This is the 5th story that I’ve written that features some connection to the strange town of Auxerre, WI and the 3rd one to be published. If you enjoy “The Music of Timothy Shean” you can also read “Crawlspace” and “Old Growth” online.

My latest horror story, “The Music of Timothy Shean,” is schedule to appear in Dark Recesses Magazine on August 30th. I love the new look of this magazine. I’m looking forward to being in there, and to sharing this story with readers.

Some music should never be heard by human ears…

My latest horror short story, “The Music of Timothy Shean,” will be published in Dark Recesses Magazine. I’ve only just heard the news and will post again as I hear more about when it will appear. The magazine has recently been restructured and the new team appears to be doing a fantastic job. Their website is slick and very readable, with a number of good features already. I’m excited to be a part of what senior editor Michael Louis Dixon calls the “re-emergence of Dark Recesses Magazine.”

The first draft of my new book, Dark Mage of Midgard, has passed the 50,000 word mark and is just about half finished. The summer writing intensive is really going well, and my plan to write at least 1000 words every day this month is adding up to some really satisfying chapters.

The work this year has been a bit more difficult than last year when I was finishing up Journey to Elara. I think this is because I’m right in the middle of the new book, as well as in the middle book of the trilogy, where the plot is really complex and everything is going badly for our heroes. I should get a big chunk of it done this summer though, and have a first draft by Christmas if things continue to go this well.

The first draft of my new book, Dark Mage of Midgard, has passed the 30,000 word mark. I plan to write another 40 to 50 thousand over the summer, and hopefully have a complete first draft by the end of the year.

I’m really happy with the work so far. A lot of exciting things are happening, and I’m looking forward to each new development in the story.

“Crawlspace” appears in SNM Horror‘s June issue, and places 3rd in thier monthly short story contest. The magazine is online now and available for reading. Hope you enjoy it.

My story “Crawlspace” will be appearing in the June issue of SNM Horror Magazine. Find out what happens when a man becomes convinced that there is something horrible living in the crawlspace of his house.

“Crawlspace” was the second story I wrote with some connection to the strange town of Auxerre, Wisconsin. In this case the story’s epigraph is a quote from one Samuel Bjorn of Auxerre University: “The mind, like the world, is a house in which our reality lives, and even though the foundation may be sound, there is a crawlspace between the floor and the ground, often overlooked or forgotten, in which dwell things undreamt of.”

I was all excited to return to the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in June, but it’s been canceled this year due to the slow economy. This isn’t new news but as June approaches I thought I would mention it. The event was a lot of fun last year and well worth while. The conference is set to resume in 2010, and I hope to be there.

I’ll still likely be in Santa Barbara for a week in June, but sadly there will be no workshops or presentations to attend, no daily lunches or dinners with writer friends. There’s only one good thing about the conference being cancelled, and that is that I will surely get a lot more writing done. It’ll be the regular solitary work though, a sort of conference of one.

After another good day of writing, Dark Mage of Midgard has passed the 12,000 word mark. Still just the beginning, but the story is well under way.

You’re not going to find any spoilers here though. I can only say that I’m very excited about what’s happened so far, and even more excited about what is to come.

That’s all for now.

After spending several weeks on preproduction type work for Dark Mage of Midgard, doing research, outlining, working out new characters and storylines, I finally started really writing yesterday. Today I finished the first chapter. It’s off and rolling and I’m very excited.

I’ll post updates periodically as the work progresses.