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Yeah, I have no time for this greyness. The memes must flow. Meanwhile, buy one of my books for Christmas! Or Hanukkah. Kwanza. Solstice. New Years? Whatever you’re celebrating, I’ve got a story for it! So long as your observances include snarky PIs, undead horrors, strange aliens, and murderous fae beasties, I mean. Which is practically all of them, right?

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If you don’t like mopey, annoying, self-indulgent posts, you just might want to skip this one; because I’m mostly going to complain.

Because life sucks right now.

Winters are always hard for me. I hate the short days, the long dark, and the lack of energy. Yes I deal with SAD.1 That’s always bad enough. On top of that, in the past two years, I’ve lost my dad, a favorite aunt, a favorite uncle, and one of the best dogs I’ve ever had.2 I’m going into the first holiday season where I’ve had the chan...

Plot twist! I was going to do meme Monday, then a poignant story of personal grief, but then I felt blah and discovered there’s a new season of the Great British Baking Show (go Iain!) and now you get a Wednesday meme doomp.

Now go buy one of my books for Christmas. If you like them, they make perfect gifts for your friends. If you hated them, they make perfect gifts for your enemies. Win-win!

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As usual, I bring you a heaping serving of the finest artisan memes gathered from teh interwebz. BUT FIRST… a gentle reminder that I have a book out!

Sigils is your typical boy-meets-girl story… if your like your stories with a heaping side of hideous Fae creatures, cynical Marines, and a sarcastic perky goth girl. I think yinz guys and all y’all might enjoy it.

No C-4 in this one, unfortunately. Give me time. 😉

If you’re wondering whether it will trip your trigger, I spent some time talking with ...

Yeah, you can probably guess where I’m at. In the meantime, buy my book! 𝑆𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑙𝑠 is available on Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and on Kindle Unlimited.

And now… THE MEMES!

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(Oh, and buy my book! Seriously. You’ll like it. It’s good. Well, not bad. Promise.)

Sigils is my urban fantasy / dark fantasy novel set in Pittsburgh, and it’s out today—just in time for Halloween!

An open door is an invitation... but you may not like what waits on the other side.

James O’Neil is about to learn the hard way that names have power, and his graffiti tags can open doors in the forgotten byways of Pittsburgh. After an accidental summoning of a powerful and malevolent Fae, he only manages to escape by the intervention of other taggers. On the run, James needs allies, a...

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled memes for this important reminder…

Sigils Serial 1 and Serial 2 are out now! Serial 3 is available for preorder and will ship later this week.If you’re the type that prefers to hallucinate while staring at slices of dead trees, you’ll be able to get a paperback copy of the complete story on October 30th.

Meanwhile, have some reference images for Sigils that I was playing around with this weekend. From left to right: James, Meg, Bone, and Syn. Not pictured: the...

Every once in a while, at work, I have to request renewal of authorization to use a resource. As part of that process, I’m supposed to provide a short reason justifying why I still need access. Of course, after asking for a “short description”, they give me an unlimited-length text field. Which means that someone, somewhere, gets a bit of flash fiction every once in a while, when I’m feeling particularly perky.

“Required to do my job.” My supervisor sounded the four words out slowly. “That’s all ...