Dog Days of Bulletpoints

• A huge thanks and all my admiration to Eryk Pruitt and Katy Munger, editors of Dark Yonder, who not only published my filthy perversion of a tale in issue #3, but also allowed me to grace the stage of Eryk's world-class Yonder Bar in North Carolina this past week for a packed-house reading. Wow. What a morale boost. I've said in the past that I kinda sorta don't like a lot of literary readings I've attended, but holy shit, this one was on fire from the get-go. The MC, Tracey Reynolds, could teach a seminar on how to host a N@B - ass-kicking and vulgar. All the readers had a distinct style and voice and knew how to hold the audience in the palms of their hands. Kudos!

• So now you should go BUY Dark Yonder #3 from Amazon, and check out their website.

• I have added as many links as I can think of to my short stories and other short writings that linger online to my Linktree, so please take a look. Some of these go back twenty years! And some are as recent as, like, right now.

• Speaking of shorts, I'm thrilled to let you know Reckon Review has accepted another one of my stories for publication, possibly in September but maybe slightly later. I love what Meagan Lucas (a fellow Dark Yonder author and reader) has put together here, and it was a dream mag for me - and now I'm in it twice. Check out Meagan's new book, Here in the Dark.

• I've also got an audio story forthcoming on a horror podcast, but I can't name it until they've set the date and given me the okay. In the meantime, I'm pretty sure I'll have insomnia while waiting.

• About three weeks left of summer for me before school starts again. So I'll be finishing Slowest Bear, writing short stories, and reading great comics (Ed Piskor's Red Room and A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance by Remender and Araujo) while cooking Mexican classics, pasta sauces, and BBQ, washed down with Trader Joe's wine and Modello. Cheers!