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Coming early November: Tales from the Lake vol. 5. Includes my short story, “The Boy”. Check out the incredible table of contents below! Short stories: • “Always after Three” by Gemma Files • “In the Family” by Lucy A. Snyder • “Voices Like Barbed Wire” by Tim Waggoner • “The Flutter of Silent Wings” by Gene O’Neill • “Guardian” …

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StokerCon 2018 begins on Thursday, March 1st. This will be the first time I have attended, and I’m really looking forward to it. I had so much fun at NeCon last July, which was a more intimate con it seems, so I’m very curious was a bigger horror con is like. I also look forward …

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Since my last post: I attended my first writing con, Necon, and had the time of my life meeting many writers I’ve been reading for years, and others who I was learning about for the first time. I left feeling energized and excited about not only my own writing, but the writing of so many of …

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Next week I am leaving for Rhode Island to attend my first convention, NECON. Strangely enough, NECON takes place just across the Sakonnet River Bridge from Tiverton. I grew up on the Tiverton side, just off Main Road. Small world. I’ll be driving to the con Thursday morning, from Baltimore, with the goal of getting …

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My story, “The Familiar”, was accepted into Nightscript Vol. III. Nightscript is among my favorite anthology series being published today, and I am very happy that I can be a part of it.

The full Table of Contents for volume III is below. It’ll be released on October 31st, 2017.

“The Flower Unfolds” — Simon Strantzas
“Downward” — Amar Benchikha
“What Little Boys Are Made Of” — Malcolm Devlin
“Grizzly” — M.K. Anderson
“Might Be Mordiford” — Charles Wilkinson
“Palankar” — Daniel Braum
“The Ges...

Just a quick update:

On Friday I’ll be attending the 2017 Borderlands Press Writers Boot Camp, hosted and taught by Tom Monteleone as well as other amazing writers, including this year’s special guest instructor, Peter Straub. The Boot Camp takes place, quite literally, up the road from my house, and I feel very lucky that my travel arrangements involve getting dropped off by my wife. The weekend promises to be fun and extremely challenging, and, from what I’ve read from past attendees, imm...

2016 is almost over, and without question it is the fastest a year has passed for me in my life. Something tells me fatherhood is the reason for the speed. The little man is growing up so fast I can hardly stand it. If only I could squeeze him back into that little baby shape he was before, but then I’d miss the adorable rambunctious toddler that he is now. Watching my son grow up is the first time I’ve truly understood the word ‘bittersweet’.

I am excited for 2017. My storyThree Thousand, Tw...

(female American Redstart. Photo credit: John Schwarz)

There are at least two female American Redstarts, and one male, that I have been seeing regularly at Lake Roland the past two weeks. These birds are very small, and I love the subtle yellow coloring of the female, as seen in the above photo. I would not expect many personal photos of warblers while my main bird photography equipment is a smart phone, so John’s wonderful photo will do for this post.

My goal for August was to meet or excee...

(Baltimore Oriole, 8/27/16, Lake Roland Boardwalk)

If it wasn’t obvious, I do most of my birding at Lake Roland. This is mostly a matter of convenience, as it is right down the road from our house, and working out farther places on a 14 month old’s schedule can be challenging. That said, it’s a great place to practice my birding skills. However, I had been going mostly in the evening, and seeing the same assortment of 15-20 birds each time. I did spend some time looking for shore birds and s...

(female Northern Cardinal, 8/5/16, Lake Roland)

Every now and again a bird sits still enough for me to get a half-decent photograph with my phone. That was the case with the above photo of a female Northern Cardinal at Lake Roland this past Friday. I purchased a device that allows me to attach my phone directly to my binocular eye piece, which helps, and shows that it is possible to get good-looking bird photography with such a budget setup. In order to potentially snap photos of birds that...