I have word of a new British horror novel coming down the pike. It has an interesting trailer (above)  that hints at its content. It...

Let me switch over to my literary fiction hat for a moment, literary fiction being shorthand for things harder to classify. "Birnam ...

I'm not sure I'm 100 percent enthusiastic about a   Hannibal  or a Bates Motel television series, but the announcement Vera Farmig...

I periodically stop by Joe Bunting's Write Practice blog, which as the title suggests, is a spot designed to  keep writers churnin...

I think I'm settling into the whole creative writing instructor gig, and I'm finding I like working with student writers to polish ...

I always feel saddened more when tragedy strikes as people are in the midst of a happy time, when there's an accident on a boating excu...

Free episodes of a new online horror series, The Unknown, are now available. Episodes are short and twisty. Seems like this came around...

For a film that exists solely because of it's high concept, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is far better than it has any right to b...

Deadly Delivery , the first young adult novel I wrote as Michael August, has just become available as an audiobook from Crossroad Press. ...

I was chatting about Ray Bradbury with someone just the other day. When I mentioned that I was thinking of including discussion on his work...

The last few days, I've been driving across the Southeast by day and continuing my reading and re-reading of mystery and weird ficti...

I've  been reading, re-reading and seeking out new things as I prepare for my teaching gig. I'm thinking of  a Serverus Snape w...

Long ago, my freshman English comp teacher told me if I decided to pursue teaching, I should look at a special focus. He didn't use the...

I can't really testify as to the reading experience. Christine is the BlackBerry user in our household, but Campfire has released the gr...

(Disclosure: I received a review copy of the British edition of 77 Shadow Street. This look inside includes mild spoilers, though no more th...

(I actually got tagged twice - drop by the blog of Robin Ashe also) Jalisa Blackman (@J_M_Blackman) hit me with an interesting meme arrow...

My dark fantasy novel Gnelfs is now available as an audiobook . It's read by Derek Hames. If you have an Audible credit, spend it now. ...

Got to talking e-book reading on different devices with a guy the other day. Before the iPad or the Kindle, I used to read e-books using...

I haven't done an update on my cat, Miss Daisy, for a while now. She was diagnosed with kidney disease a few years back . Hard to ...

I heard talk of " Awake " a few weeks back. It's an NBC series starring the great Jason Isaacs of Harry Potter etc. Until re...