The correlation between humor and likeable characters
Think of some of your favorite and most memorable fictional characters, whether it be in TV or film serials, comic books, literature, etc. Now, think of those who became endearing to you after how...
View ArticleA Departure of Sense: Worlds Within Worlds of Fiction
The above trailer has to be without a doubt one of my favorite horror films ever made. Everything is so superbly crafted, from the imagery to the acting, to the dreamlike narrative. The film takes an...
View ArticleOriginality is for fakers
You read that headline write. Shocking isn’t it? But it’s true. Now, I’m familiar with jaded internet-culture, how it has bred into us a kind of cynicism when we see something that jolts us forwards in...
View ArticleUpcoming Anthology
I am pleased to announce that my short story “Angela’s Garden” will be appearing in Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous edited by Tim Marquitz. There are a host of talented authors I’ll be...
View ArticleFading Light: Multi-Author Interview
Exciting news, Dawesians. The publisher of the latest anthology I’ll be appearing in, Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous, set up a multi-author interview to promote the release of the book....
View ArticleJournalistic Integrity
I don’t lay any claims to being a journalist, at least what it is that I do now could hardly be called journalism. That’s not to say that I don’t have some journalistic credentials in my history, but...
View ArticleThe Dead Walk Again Vol. 1
Everyone, be sure to head over to Amazon to check out The Dead Walk Again Vol. 1, featuring my short LGBT-themed story Hero alongside ten other chilling stories of a broken world in the midst of a...
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It is December 25th, 2012 For the second year in a row everyone thought the world was going to end. Well, we joked about the world ending because there were a few sad people (some of them friends) who...
View ArticleWriting Lately
Somedays, writing comes so easily. Every word flows, the characters spring to life at your fingertips, and you find yourself lost in the woven narrative enjoying the process as much as you hope the...
View ArticleThe Pit
Due to some changes in my life as well as an ongoing fight with clinical depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, I’ve taken a back-seat to public writing. This needs to change. I withdrew deep...
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