Category: Fiction

The Last Child | Excerpt From a Companion Story to The Last Zombie Series

THE LAST CHILD excerpt from a companion story to The Last Zombie Series Her parents never came home after the electricity went out, and now thirteen-year-old Phoebe Davis must evade the undead and navigate the apocalyptic landscape of her street if she’s ever going to find a familiar face again. 1. ALL HER life—thirteen years … Continue reading The Last Child | Excerpt From a Companion Story to The Last Zombie Series →

The Last Zombie | A Zombie Apocalypse Book Series

If you've followed me for a while, you may know that last year WB Welch and I co-wrote a zombie novella titled The Last Letter (available on Amazon). Heck, you might have even read it. We've sold a couple hundred copies, though both of us disappeared from the internet for months right after its release … Continue reading The Last Zombie | A Zombie Apocalypse Book Series →

Casting Paperback Comedian | Guest Post by E.C. Flickinger

Who should play the lead in the movie version of Paperback Comedian? You’ve probably thought about casting the perfect person for your favorite book, maybe even for something you’ve written. Yeah, it’s a bit daunting. THE BEST at their craft have a special presence, a gravity. We admire them instinctually. We choose to orbit their … Continue reading Casting Paperback Comedian | Guest Post by E.C. Flickinger →

How We Accidentally Wrote a Book for Our Times | JJ Blacklocke

HOW WE ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A BOOK FOR OUR TIMES by JJ Blacklocke AN ADVENTURE In 2016, two best friends traveled to New York City for a pair of adventures: to see HAMILTON on Broadway and to sit down together and plot out a science fiction series. Four and a half years later, we can watch … Continue reading How We Accidentally Wrote a Book for Our Times | JJ Blacklocke →

All First-Person Protagonists are Writers

DO YOU ever think about that? There’s an exception, of course: novels presented as transcribed verbal storytelling, like Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne. For the most part, though, all first-person protagonists are writers. That’s not to say the character necessarily identifies as a writer within the time frame of the story, but whatever they experienced in … Continue reading All First-Person Protagonists are Writers →

How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended | The Light of the Seven

THIS IS my take on how Game of Thrones should have ended. I call it The Light of the Seven, and it could have been achieved in the same number of episodes allotted to the past two weak, pathetic, first-draft-sounding seasons. Enjoy. We’re at the beginning of the big moment in what’s currently Season Eight, … Continue reading How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended | The Light of the Seven →

Pie for a Follow, John Scalzi?

THREE DAYS ago, on my birthday, New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi agreed to follow me on Twitter, under one condition: I had to agree to bake a pie. It's called a Schadenfreude Pie, invented by John himself and to be eaten, according to him, "while you are reveling in the horrible misfortunes … Continue reading Pie for a Follow, John Scalzi? →

All the Things I Did Today (poem for a children’s book)

I ran across this in my files having forgotten I wrote it. Don't know that I'll ever do anything with it, but it was fun to reencounter. It's definitely not complete and it might be awful but I'm sharing it anyway! (I don't know if the formatting will transfer properly but let's see.) All the … Continue reading All the Things I Did Today (poem for a children’s book) →