horror

Wish I’d Known Then…

I’m the current guest on the podcast WISH I’D KNOWN THEN… with Jami Albright and Sara Rosett.  Some of the things we discussed included my writing successes, failures and the things I wished I could get a do overs for.  You can […]

The First 20 Years

The New Year marks twenty years since my first published work, which was a short story in a science fiction magazine.  I thought I would mark this personal landmark moment with some stats: More than 20 books published. Had my work translated […]

Halloween: MY OTHER SISTER

It’s Halloween so you’re entitled to a spooky story…however, this is one is true. So please enjoy… MY OTHER SISTER I was seven when I met my other sister. As a child, it wasn’t uncommon for me to wake up during the […]

Halloween Specials

It’s Halloween and a couple of my Halloween scares written under my pen name, Simon Janus, are on sale this week at Amazon. In THE SCRUBS, James Jeter, the notorious serial killer with a sixth sense, holds court inside London’s Wormwood Scrubs […]

Cover Reveal: LA FISSURE

I’m happy to reveal the cover for the upcoming French release: LA FISSURE.  It’s the translation of my supernatural thriller, THE SCRUBS.  I don’t have a release date but it will later this year. So what do you think?

iTunes & Me

Similarly to Kobo, a bunch of my ebooks and audiobooks are now on iTunes.  I must admit I feel like a bit of a rock star because I have an artist’s page on iTunes.  So if you’re an Apple iTunes person, you […]

Harlan Ellison & Me

Acclaimed Science Fiction writer, Harlan Ellison, died last week.  He was a legend for two reasons–his writing and abrasive personality.  He was a force of nature that was hard to withstand.  I met him only once.  We appeared on a panel together […]

The Shelf Life

Please enjoy this “Shelfie” as it represents twenty years of writing (although not twenty years of being published). It does look like I am going to need a bigger set of bookshelves.   🙂

Wanna Come To My BLOCK PARTY…

Hello, neighbors. You’re all invited to the Golden Elm Lane Block Party! Welcome to Golden Elm Lane. It’s just like any other small-town street…or is it? Horrible things happen on Golden Elm Lane…vile, monstrous, evil things. Serial killers, ghosts, and monsters of […]