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POETRY READING NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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

DARK TOWER & FAIRY TALE AMA ON R/BOOKS

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

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 …

MY TRAVELS WITH GWENDY

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

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 …

CLICK & LISTEN AUDIO STORY: “THE BOG KING’S DAUGHTER”

When an anthropology student seeks out her mentor’s disgraced rival in the remote boglands at …

LADY WONDER, THE PSYCHIC, CRIME-SOLVING MARE

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

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction publishes “Jack-in-the-Box”

My novelette, “Jack-in-the-Box,” has been published in the March/April 2021 issue of The Magazine of …

INTERVIEW ON THE OVERLOOK PODCAST

Need an escape from the chaos of our world? Join me, Dave Evans, and Tim …

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 …

DARK TOWER COMICS AND THE POWER OF POPULAR MYTHOLOGIES

Here’s a fun wiki article. It lists their top nine graphic novels that expand on …

“BRIDE IN SEA-GREEN VELVET” CHOSEN FOR 2018 YEAR’S BEST ANTHOLOGY

My novelette, “The Bride in Sea-Green Velvet,” originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science …

A WEEKEND AT BABE (BRISTOL ARTISTS BOOK EVENT)

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

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…

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 . . .

Dark Tower Concordance: Spanish Edition

The Argentinean publisher Restaurant de la Mente will be publishing my Concordance in a limited …

Exclusive Offer: Dark Tower Portfolio

Stephen King Catalog’s beautiful Dark Tower Portfolio is still available. Part of the new Stephen …

A Visit To Haunted Whitby

Last week I returned to the haunted seaside town of Whitby for the first time in five years. If you’ve ever visited this remote corner of North Yorkshire, you’ll know why I love it so much…