22 Publishers Seeking Horror Novel and/or Novellas

Yes, I’m back, even if momentarily while I grade all of these research papers (sooooooo many papers). Once summer is underway, and more publishers reopen for submissions, I’ll have an updated list at some point. I can’t stress this enough: Make sure you always do your due diligence and pay attention to the publisher’s general … Continue reading →

I Want To Be a Better Writer

I want to be a better writer. I want to have enough money to buy my own books at print cost in order to sign and sell them to readers who collect signed books. I also want enough money to afford swag. Who doesn’t like swag? Stickers, refrigerator magnets, decals, bottle openers, key chains, tees, … Continue reading →

27 Horror Novel, Novella, & Novelette Publishers Open to Submissions (Summer 2022)

I can’t believe I’ve not posted here in so long. Sorry for that hiatus. I figured the best return to form would be another researched list of horror publishers of novels, novellas, and novelettes that are open to submissions this summer (and beyond). If I’m going to post anything, it may as well be worthwhile … Continue reading →

Invasion of the Splatter Westerns (and the inspiration for Red Station)

Last year, Death’s Head Press’ co-founder, Patrick C. Harrison III, did something pretty amazing. He reached out to a number of authors to write standalone novellas and novels in a genre he coined as “splatter westerns.” A splatter western is a mad hybrid of splatterpunk horror and western genres. In other words, the western would have … Continue reading →

Things I’ve Learned As a New Author (Part 2)

  Yesterday’s list of things I’ve learned as a new author seemed to go over quite nicely, but I saved the more controversial things I’ve learned for today’s post, Part 2. You can love it or leave it or mull it over for a bit before giving up entirely on me…   No one wants … Continue reading →

This Entry on Writing Has No Focus

I’ve not kept this up much as I’ve been attempting to multitask writing projects this summer and failing miserably at it. It’s a balancing act that is so hard for me to manage. I’ve put aside the project I’d started last November, a psychosexual horror thriller, and have started a new one that has a … Continue reading →

When Certain Writing Turns One Vulnerable

Okay, so, yeah, about this horror novel stuff that’s been going on… I didn’t think my first big piece of published work, the one that’s going released for mass consumption in a few months, would be a horror novel. In hindsight, I should have. I’m good friends with the genre. Have been since I was … Continue reading →

Dueling Worlds

Nobody told me it was going to be like this… Regular Working World: One in which I plod through, day to day, nodding and smiling in support towards colleagues and students and the occasional administrator. I teach, I answer questions, I grade papers, I question myself, I re-grade some papers, I teach some more, I … Continue reading →

When Writing Truly Became My Therapy

I’ve been stagnant here, and for that—as well as my lack of participation in the blogging community—I’m sorry. I’d a single writing goal over the summer, and that was to FINALLY finish my horror novel, that beast that’s been keeping my mind and soul occupied when other things should have been. I’d promised myself it … Continue reading →

Pop Culture Summering

Too much going on over the past month. Too much and, still, far too little. Just got back from a trip to my old college haunt, Macon, GA. Waiting for the roofer co. to call me back, but here in Florida, everyone has a leaky roof during the storm season. My current goal is to … Continue reading →