Alone together, here in the dark
I was a theater kid all through high school and college. For a long time, a career in theater was the end goal, though the role I imagined for myself changed...
Revision diary: Rebuilding worlds
This is cross-posted from my Patreon, so apologies if you are seeing this twice! I generally try to keep the two separate, but this seemed relevant to the...
When you're an elephant who has been swallowed by a snake
News first, because I actually have news to share! FINNA made the Locus Recommended Reading List! Anyone can vote in the poll, so if feeling moved, you can...
When all you've done is all you can do
There’s a particular image in my head that I’ve been trying to work into a story since May. Nibs and I moved to into an apartment in NYC in May, an odd...
Good news in strange times
1) First, I'm fine. Nibs and I are back in Vermont, and probably will be for a while. It's weird, after spending so much time traveling, to be really,...
Reddit AMA!
Hey all! I’m going to be over on r/books in a bit to chat about whatever you want....
Open weekend thread: #PandemicReads
Happy Friday, friends. Most of us are approaching weeks 2 or 3 in isolation at this point, and I’m curious. What are you reading, watching, and listening to...
Plotting the Unthinkable
This tab has been sitting open on my laptop for the past ten days or so. I don’t really need to say why, right? Most of us have been watching world events...
a list of disaster movies that have nothing to do with epidemics
This week is bad for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons. I have about 95% of a newsletter written about the amazing plotting in The Wicked and the Divine....
Artifice and Architecture: A New Gothic Revival, Part II
Quick reminder: if you like my thoughts about the nature of stories, you might also like my fiction. You can buy my short story collection Homesick or...
A New Gothic Revival: Part 1
(Hi! It’s been a while! November was consumed by doing a book tour for Homesick, and December was a necessary recovery month. But I’m back now, and will try...
Short and spooky: horror film mini-fest
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me, and it’s about to get busier. This week I’ll be reading at Rhizome in Washington DC and paneling at the Baltimore...
How I planned my cheap-ass book tour
I’m taking a quick break from writing about narratives this week to instead talk about the business side of writing. I saw the following thread literally...
Scary Stories to Keep In the Dark
I don’t know if I can tell you how profoundly Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark affected me as a kid. I don’t just mean that it scared the pants off me or...
Reading list: trans dopplegängers
So last week, I posed this question on Twitter: Nino Cipri is looking for work @ninocipriI'm writing a newsletter on the game Her Story this week which...
Her Story: Splintered Selves and Shattered Narratives
Stories about doubles and dopplegängers abound. My first encounter with them was probably Stephen King’s The Dark Half, which follows in a long line of...
Form and Function in Horror
It’s September, which means it’s basically October, which means I have license to dive face-first into my first and foremost love: high-key creepy...
"And death killed him."
I wrote last week about the Bread and Puppet Theater, a radical puppet theater based out of Glover, Vermont. This week, I want to examine one of their...
Bread & Puppet Theater
Back in 2009--although it makes me die a little to remember that was ten whole-ass years ago--I spent a summer working as an apprentice puppeteer to the...
What makes a story work?
So I write fiction, mostly. But I started out writing (awful) poetry and (less awful) screenplays. I’ve written comics, essays, plays, rabble-rousing emails,...
