Tag Archives: Dark Quest Books

She Only Has Eyes for You

More info on this project to come soon, but I couldn’t wait to share the cover art for Volume Three of my Corpse Fauna series, courtesy of artist extraordinaire and mad zombie genius Glen Ostrander. Go on. Give ‘er kiss, now. Smooch, smooch.

Dark Quest Books Author Interrogation

If you ever wondered what goes on inside the mind of a writer, what drives us to do the things we do, what compels us to make the sacrifices we make, and to live lives of nonstop action and romance (in our imaginations), then check out this interview with me from the crew at Dark [...]

The Books Are Free But Magic Has Its Price

“Gorge released note after blistering note, and the audience soaked up his music like a rain of razor blades. They danced, whirled, and smashed together; they bled magic that flowed across smoky air, shimmering red and yellow with flashing stage lights, to feed the hungry core inside him. He hadn’t felt magic this pure and [...]

Music, Magic, and Mayhem–Three Chords of Chaos

Coming this Spring from Dark Quest Books…

EPIC Steampunk!

I just got word from editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail that the anthology In An Iron Cage: The Magic of Steampunk has been named a finalist for the 2013 EPIC Award for Best Anthology. Congratulations to all my fellow contributors, to editors Danielle and Neal Levin, and also to editor Alma Alexander, whose anthology, River, published by [...]

Corpse Fauna, Volume One, On Sale Now

I’m excited to announce that my zombie novella, The Dead Bear Witness, is now available from Dullahan Press, an imprint of Dark Quest Books! This is volume one of the four-volume Corpse Fauna series, which will complete a story cycle which I began writing in 1997. Although some of the Corpse Fauna stories were previously [...]

The Dead Bear Witness

Art by ghastly Glen Ostrander. Announcement coming soon…

More Love for the Dragon!

Editors are like dragons. They’re sometimes wise, often grumpy, and they covet gold in the form of good writing. They like to sleep a lot too, under mountains of manuscripts, but once you get them going, they’ll torch villages to make sure every last mixed metaphor, split infinitive, and threadbare cliche is scorched to ash. [...]

Dragon’s Lure Review

                          My story, “He Who Burns,” appeared in the anthology, Dragon’s Lure.  It was one of a number of stories I’ve written where I’ve managed to surprise myself. A dragon story wasn’t on the horizon for me in any form until I was [...]