Gamut is Now Open to Submissions!

I can’t tell you how exciting this is!  Gamut is now opening its doors to submissions. Stop by the website and check out the sample stories, poetry, non-fiction, and columns. We are also offering  subscriptions, merchandise, and consultations. We’re looking forward to reading your work. <3 ****Edited to Add**** Well, that was quick! Gamut has chosen to cap submissions at 300 a … Read More

Get Little Dead Red and Pretty Little Dead Girls for 99 Cents!

99 cents for a short time only! The Wolf is roaming the city in this Bram Stoker Award winning Mercedes M. Yardley novella, and he must be stopped. “LITTLE DEAD RED is a dark retelling of the classic fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. But make no mistake; it isn’t that story in modernized form. That would be dark enough, … Read More

Little Dead Red and Other Stories! Win a Limited Edition Copy!

So the most amazing thing happened.Vault Books is a new publishing company that  creates limited editions of new and existing works by some of the most noted writers of speculative fiction, and they took me under their wing.  Pre-orders for my new limited edition short story collection Little Dead Red and Other Stories are now live. And this thing is going to … Read More

The Obligatory Scorpion Montage

This doesn’t include the scorpion in the bathtub, the one running across my hand in the bed, or the one in the lint trap of the dryer. Some were so frightening that I couldn’t even think of grabbing a picture.

This Is What Love Looks Like

I’m under some pretty intense deadlines and other stresses. How do you eat an elephant? You unhinge your jaw and try to devour all of it at once. Naturally. I came home from an unscheduled grocery store run (Arg, it ate up half an hour I didn’t intend to lose!) to this beautiful spread by Middlest. “You need to eat, … Read More

Darkness Dwells Podcast Episode 60!

Okay, so this was so much fun. I was delighted to go on the Darkness Dwells podcast and meet one of my new favorite people, Jason White. I recount my dorkiness at the Bram Stoker Award, my unholy love for The Lord of the Flies, and listen in horror as Jason is abducted by Skynet. Please stop by and take a … Read More

Pimp a Friend Friday: John Boden

  1983: A boy and his little brother wander through a loosely stitched summer. A summer full of sun and surrealism, Lessons of loss and love. Of growing up and figuring it out. Nestled in the mountains of Pennsylvania is a small town, it’s not like the others. Things are strange there- people die but hang around, pets too. Everyone … Read More

An Essay on The Container of Sorrows' Theme

So. This is one of the coolest things to ever happen. I was looking for the link to my short story “The Container of Sorrows” to show my friend. And I run across this amazing essay that someone named Brendyliz wrote two years ago discussing the theme of “The Container of Sorrows.” You can read it here. What a delightful thing … Read More