Halloween is right around the corner, and to celebrate, my Halloween-themed novella In Solemn Shades of Endless Night is free at Smashwords for the next week. So download it, read it, tell your friends, etc. Also, there’s a new release coming very soon. My suggestion is to sign up for my newsletter if you haven’t done [...]
From Robert Swartwood, the editor of the critically acclaimed Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, comes a collection of twenty-six very short stories, ranging from the real to the surreal. Phantom Energy is 11,000 words long (view full table of contents here). Praise for Phantom Energy: “The zip fictions of [...]
I do, however, know when I’ll be back again. Which is next week, because tomorrow I’m flying out to Columbia, Missouri for their art show of Hint Fiction (here’s an article that ran a few days ago about the show which even shows some of the pieces). I will of course be tweeting my adventures but otherwise it [...]
I got some exciting news earlier this week. It’s nothing earth-shattering but was very cool and I’m super happy it worked out. Basically, when I initially wrote Man of Wax (which is scheduled for an October release, btw), I included a few passages from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It’s a little great children’s [...]
Dustin Grella is one talented dude. He does this amazing kind of animation, as seen by his acclaimed piece Prayers for Peace. He also does this thing called Animation Hotline, where people can call in and talk about whatever and he’ll animate it. Of course, he can’t animate everything he gets, as he gets a [...]
My own special “Robert Swartwood” theme at Swedish Zombie concludes today with the publication of an original short story called “The Hunter.” As I noted before, the story takes place in the world of The Dishonored Dead and is, in many ways, a “prequel of sorts” to the novel. It delves more into Philip’s backstory [...]
Today is the first post from Swedish Zombie where they review The Dishonored Dead, saying it “gives the word ‘zombie’ a new meaning.” In the next several days there will be more reviews of my work, plus an interview, plus an original zombie short story translated into Swedish (as a sneak peek, this story delves back [...]
