Other Appearances

Where My Other Works Have Appeared (Updated as Required)

I have a piece scheduled for this collection, “Turn the Page,” coming out as soon as the Kickstarter campaign for the anthology finishes raising the modest capital needed to launch.

On October 8^th, my contribution to the Horror Writers of America’s Halloween Haunts blog, “Aren’t You Too Old for This? Really…?” went live. I use this opportunity to share some views about the holiday, along with a few memories about how the day was celebrated way too long ago.

I contributed an account to FANTASTIC!: A Celebration of Fans Discovering Doctor Who from Zepo Publishing. Here, I share my personal history with the show, along with others in the fan community. This should be a great collection that looks at the fanbase from all over, allowing everyone to share how the got aboard the TARDIS and welcoming others to join in.

My short story, “Ivy, Lichens, and Wallflowers,” is part of the anthology Toil and Trouble from DCL Publications. This is a romance, one that like the other stories in the work is between a paranormal presence and a normal person, or as normal as you can find among sorceresses and influencers…

I have a background piece on how the story came together that may also be worth a read, too.

This is available via Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.

I have an essay in OUTSIDE IN CAN LIVE WITH IT, a collection of essays about episodes of ST: DS9, which looks at the episode “Prophet Motive.”

I’m happy to announce that Forces of Geek is now the new home of “Fantasia Obscura.” There will be more of the reviews and histories you may remember from REBEAT with a whole new set of films.

I will announce each title as it gets posted in the blog feed. And when you go to the site, do take a look at the fine work from the other writers whose work is posted there as well.

I’ve just placed my short story “Padre Jorge and The Dragon” in the anthology Dragon Mythicana from Inkd Publishing. It follows an envoy sent by Pope Clement to meet with the vanquisher of Hernando Cortez, Quetzalcoatl, to open a dialog between the two…

More information as it becomes available.

Way back in the Internet’s Pliocene Era, in December of 2002, I placed an article on SJGames’ Pyramid Online magazine. Entitled “It’s How You Plague the Game,” it gave some nuts-and-bolts tools for determining how to have an active pandemic affect your role-playing game, giving the day-to-day impact of what characters in the active story would face as an infection ravaged the area.

It would be eighteen years later that some real-time stress tests of the assumptions made in there would be tested, and for the most part it held. A few things that happened in 2020 and beyond got missed in 2002, but otherwise things went the way it was assumed they’d go. Whether that’s a reason to read or avoid the piece, that’s up to you…

The article can be found in the Pyramid Volume 2 HTML Archive: 2002 Spotlight for download from SJGames.com.

An older story of mine, “The Rooftop Session,” will be reprinted in Ruth and Ann’s Guide to Time Travel Volume I from Celestial Echo Press. For those who haven’t read it before, let’s just say that we get to see what happened at 3 Saville Row above and beyond what Get Back and Let it Be showed us…

This can be purchased through both Amazon and B&N.

I have a story in the anthology Conspiracies and Cryptids, “Meet the Baffles,” from Fantastic Books. When given the opportunity by editor Charles Barouch to do a story, I had the option of doing one on a cryptid (an unexplainable zoological creature, like the sasquatch and the like) or a conspiracy, to which I replied, “Yes…” As to what it’s about, let’s just say Seneca Lake has more to it than Watkins Glenn and the wineries… This can be purchased at both Amazon and B&N.

I have a story in this anthology, Trees, entitled “The Birchies,” from Jersey Pines Ink. This story is part of a collection of tales of horror about all the ways that trees can haunt, scare, and kill you; in my tale, I gave the trees a few advantages to help them as they try to wipe humanity off the map… This book can be purchased at both Amazon and B&N.

I have a story in the anthology The Fans are Buried Tales entitled “The British Invasion Fan’s Tale (or You Never Give Me Your Money).” The editor, Peter David, put out a call for pieces for a themed collection published by Crazy 8 Press, based on a real life event, when Farpoint 2003 was snowed in. So of course I would submit something that played to my strengths, which may be of interest to anyone who goes to a certain twice a year con out there, who may see something in the story that they can relate very well to…

I have a story in the anthology Gabba Gabba Hey entitled “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.” The call for this one was for stories inspired by songs of the Ramones, with the title of the story drawn from one of their songs. The song that inspired me came off the album Rocket to Russia, and manages to discuss how impermanent everything is… or supposed to be…

Most of my time from 2014 to 2019 was spent at REBEAT Magazine, where I covered a lot of topics from obits to history pieces. The bulk of my work there was the weekly column “Fantasia Obscura,” which covered the genre films (SF/F/H) that were released during the historical period the magazine covered, mid-twentieth century up to 1980. I had fond memories of working there, and encourage you to enjoy all the works that everyone contributed to the magazine over the years.