So I’m reverse-engineering the screenplay I wrote a couple of years ago into a novel. It’s definitely an interesting process; a lot of the stuff that you sometimes put into fiction that you find yourself stripping out on the third or fourth read-through is already gone, or, I guess, was never there in the first [...]

The Birthright was the first novel I actually finished. I pitched an idea about a family of occultists to a now-defunct serial-subscription website called keepitcoming.net five or six years ago; I actually didn’t have anything written, but I figured that if my story was accepted, the site’s weekly deadlines would force me to keep moving [...]

New awesomeness: Florida-based indie electronic publisher Pandora Project has just issued a standalone e-book version of short story “The Terrible Twos.” It’s sort of an experiment, we’re going to find out together whether folks will pay around a buck for a single (*cough* great *cough*) short story of a few thousand words, so by all [...]

Just finished it today. Wow. Such a crazy yet coherent mix of noir, psychological thriller, horror, wartime paranoia … before I picked it up, I was really excited about the Scorsese adaptation coming later this year. Now, I’m just not sure it’s even going to be possible to come close to the book’s multilayered quality.