In tomorrow’s America, belief is the new enemy. Faith in anything other than the State is outlawed. Rafael Ward has nothing else to believe in anyway. He’s content to teach the revised, government-approved narrative of history and collect his paycheck. Ward’s life changes when an outlaw Believer named MacKenzie shows up at his door demanding […]
I meet a lot of writers, young writers particularly, who feel like they don’t have anything new to say, no new stories to tell, no new ideas. Now, for me, ideas are mostly shiny, plastic dross. When you first find them they look like emeralds on the beach, a rare fossil, an Important Discovery — But […]
See anything in that photo? Sure, sure, you see a praying mantis. But look again. Up from the mantis. Up, up, up. Yeah, now you see it. I didn’t see it when I first stopped to take a cameraphone pic of the mantis — that photo there is not the camera pic, by the by, […]
This a story about why I read true crime, and why I write thrillers. A true story. It starts out a normal night working the desk at my dorm in college. Big place, over 1,000 coed residents in it on seven sprawling floors. Normally, there would be two people working the desk around the clock. […]
Pleased today to reveal the cover to John Hornor Jacobs’ newest — a novella of cosmic horror, and you can read the description below and check out the cover above. But first I feel that JHJ’s other work is deserving of a mention. Obviously, the world is made of writers. We’re fucking everywhere, like mosquitoes, […]
“Hey, can you send me that JIF file–” “HA HA WHAT DID YOU SAY? DID YOU SAY JIF.” “Yes, JIF file, it’s a–” “HA HA LOLWUT IS IT A JRAPHICS INTERLACED FILE? I WAS THINKING OF HAVING SOME VEGETABLES TONIGHT, MAYBE SOME JREEN BEANS WITH MAYBE SOME JARLIC AS SEASONING. WHO SHOOTS FIRST, IS IT […]