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(For Story Sales History see Short Story Archive)

This is an archive of all news blurbs once posted on the main page
of the website, saved here for posterity. )

2008

My novel Margaret's Ark was a Semi-Finalist in the
Amazon / Penguin Books Breakthrough Novel Competition.

Read the excerpt & Publisher's Weekly review of the novel here! (thanks to Michelle Pendergrass for the cool image)

 

2007

The MS Fund Raiser Wheels and Heels Against MS 3-day, 50 Mile Walk was a great success! They raised over $16,000!! Click Here for details

 

There's an Interview with me at Fear and Trembling Magazine on their site this month. (Though the site's been down a lot lately) Check it out if you can, let me know what you think.

 

Two countries down, 191 to go....

German Language rights to Solomon's Grave have officially been sold to Otherworld Verlag. They will be publishing it November 2007!. Click here to see the new cover art!

2006 The Italian language edition, titled il Segreto di Salomone, has been officially released by Edizioni Il Punto d'Incontro (see cover here)!


Thanks again to Gardner Goldsmith who has me as a guest on his radio show "Against the Grain" on Friday the 7th, 12:30 on WNTK 1020 AM / 99.7 FM (NH & VT)!

  February, 2006: Thanks to Priscilla Olsen & everyone else involved in Boskone 43-- Boston's biggest Science Fiction convention, this weekend -- for having me as a participant - I did two panels which were very fun and interesting (at least when I kept my mouth shut), and thanks to Daniel & Trista Robichaud who served as my reading audience, and Sharon Lee & Steve Miller who let me hang out with them during Literary Beer. :-) And of course my fellow dinner-searchers Friday night.
2005 October 31, 2005: Special thanks to Gard Goldsmith for having me back on his radio show, Against the Grain, this time at: WNTK 1020 AM / 99.7 FM (NH & VT) on Halloween (Monday October 31st, at 2:45 pm). It was fun. And a special hello to Del Howison of Dark Delicacies Bookstore who was my co-guest. Del has just published a major anthology of stories with a who's who of writers called, appropriately enough, Dark Delicacies.
2004

October 28, 2004: Read Camille Dodero's article about New England horror writers, including an interview with me and other locals, in the October 28th Boston Phoenix newspaper! You can also read it online by clicking here.

  "Redemption" my hapless original story with its lengthy tale of woe from Christmas Trees and Monkeys, has received Honorable Mention in 2003's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow - who, it seems, has a sense of humor. :-)
2002, 2003 Christmas Trees and Monkeys, Collected Horror Stories, Volume 1, my self-published short story collection made it to the Preliminary Ballot for the 2004 Bram Stoker Award, for superior achivement in a fiction collection. Not bad, not bad....
"The Doll Wagon" (from PODDITIES - A Tribute to Jack Finney's Body Snatchers) received Honorable Mention in 2002's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror! One of my little to-check-off list things I can now check off the list.
  "White Wave of Mercy" from Lone Wolf's Darkest Africa anthology reached as far as the
preliminary ballot for the 2002 Bram Stoker award.Many thanks to those who thought it worthy of such a nod!