New on my blog: Joomla out, Wordpress in--major site revamp this weekend!

It probably doesn't deserve an exclamation point, but whatever. If you drop by my site and it looks goofier than usual, or absent altogether, this is why. And if it looks, I dunno, wordpressier, this is also why. Once it's done, I'm hoping I can get my brainmeats refocused on writing.

New on my blog: Fading Light, Reading Pics, Site Maintainance, Free Links

In which I share some random link stuph for Friday, plus news on upgrading the Joomla installation for my website, pictures from the reading/q&a/signing I and other authors did a week and a half ago, plus this:

I got some good news recently -- my bizarro/horror short story Goldilocks Zone was accepted into the anthology Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous, edited by Tim Marquitz. That's the awe-inspiring cover on the left, with artwork by Jessy Lucero--click on the image to see it in its full-size tentacly glory. Fading Light's gonna be droppin' on September 1st from Angelic Knight Press, and in addition to my story, it features monstrously good tales from Malon Edwards, Jake Elliot, Lee Mather, Edward M. Erdelac, and more.

Looks like Farmer Brown's growing magic mushrooms now...

New on my blog: Short Reviews: BloodDreams #1 by Angi Shearstone / Resurrection by Tim Marquitz

New on my blog: Reading/Panel at Nicola's Books 5/7/12 / New Free Short Story to Newsletter Subscribers

Presenting "Indian Robot Endhiran", which I was told got made because one of the guys responsible for the special effects in "the Matrix" went back to India and had a lot of money thrown at him. If it ever gets remade by Hollywood, it must star Nicholas Cage. You know this is true.

New on my blog: Con Report: Penguicon 2012

Did one panel, had much fun last Friday and Saturday. Hope to do more next year. That's about it.

"Doctor Hooey"... a Turkish Doctor Who... parody? fever dream?

Right! I interviewed Jake Elliot, author of the dark fantasy novel The Wrong Way Down, on my blog today.

At the same time, I was interviewed by Jake Elliot regarding my dark fantasy novel Brutal Light on his blog today.

How the space-time continuum stayed together, I have no idea...

I'm going to be at the combination science fiction/tech geekery convention PenguiCon, in Dearborn, Michigan, today (Friday 4/27) through Sunday 4/29. I'm only scheduled for one panel, though, on Friday 4/27 at 6 pm: "Fantasy vs. Dark Fantasy vs. Horror: What Happened to the Boundaries?" Essentially its a look at how dark fantasy as a subgenre blurs the boundaries between fantasy and horror, and why its appeal is so strong. It looks like I'm gonna be running that panel solo, too, so whoever attends will be subjected to my eccentric views on all of this. I'll be heavily caffeinated, so if nothing else, it'll be entertaining!

I'll also be giving away a couple signed copies of my dark fantasy novel Brutal Light to panel attendees. So if you're in the SW Michigan area, or even farther out, drop in and say hi! PenguiCon has become, in my opinion, the premier fan-run con in Michigan, and there's always a lot going on. Even though I'm only on one panel, I'll be bopping about through the whole convention.