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POETRY READING NOVEMBER 3, 2022

If you are in the UK at the beginning of November, I will be doing …

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DARK TOWER & FAIRY TALE AMA ON R/BOOKS

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to my Dark Tower/ Fairy Tale AMA on Reddit’s …

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BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR, VOLUME FOURTEEN

Coming to a bookshop near you! Here’s a sneak-peak at the cover of Ellen Datlow’s …

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MY TRAVELS WITH GWENDY

I had the great honor of helping Steve King and Rich Chizmar with the research …

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Fifteen Years on the Road to the Tower: Happy Anniversary to the Dark Tower Comics

Fifteen years ago this month, the first issue of THE GUNSLINGER BORN appeared in comic …

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LADY WONDER, THE PSYCHIC, CRIME-SOLVING MARE

Do you believe people can be telepathic? What about animals?  In 1951, the police in …

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SIGNING AT ORBITAL COMICS: Saturday, October 26, 2019 6 p.m. until late

Come to Orbital Comics in London on Saturday, 26 October 2019. I’ll be there with …

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A WEEKEND AT BABE (BRISTOL ARTISTS BOOK EVENT)

If you are reading this blog, you are probably a bibliophile. And by bibliophile, I …

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Writing Comics: Part I

A few months ago, I gave a talk to the University of Winchester’s Comic Book Society about the world of writing comics. Most of the people there were aspiring writers and several were both…

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The Little Stranger

Back in 2011, I wrote a short ghost story for Womanthology. Since it takes place in Whitby (the subject of my previous blog), I thought it would be fun to reprint it here . . .

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