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Dark Faith Invocations Pre-Order
Religion, science, magic, love, family — everyone believes in something, and that faith pulls us through the darkness and the light. The second coming of Dark Faith cries from the depths with 26...
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Ghost In The Machine
If you happen by the magazine rack at your local Barnes and Noble, you might want to check out the summer issue of Shroud. Issue 12 includes an interview Mike Knost did with me and a new short story....
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2012 Writer’s Symposium
It’s that time of year again. GenCon brings over 30,000 gaming and cosplay fans to Indianapolis each year. And while some think of it only as a gaming convention, it’s also one of the best kept secrets...
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Work In Progress
It’s been a wonderfully strange year. Learning to write and edit with a little boy mucking about. Pushing forward on a novel, novella, and anthology at the same time. Here’s the inside scoop on my...
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One Penny Buys The Future
Not a bad deal. You agree to give up one penny, just one, per year and you make the future possible. Don’t believe me. Watch this beautiful, impassioned plea from Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and then go...
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FN’s Dark Faith 2 Interview
Patrick Hester and John Anealio, the cool guys behind the Functional Nerds podcast, offered to buy us a few drinks and kick back for a conversation about the new book and the role of faith, social...
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Dark Faith Invocations
Dark Faith 2 is now available for purchase! The second volume in the Stoker / Nebula / Black Quill nominated series includes twenty-six stories that focus on the testing of faith from a wide range of...
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Interactive Reading
Apex Publications is hosting a read-along event on Goodreads for Dark Faith: Invocations. On Mon/Wed/Fri, Lesley Conner will be leading a discussion on a different story from the anthology. Expect...
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2013 Con Schedule
This year, I’ll be kicking things off with a hometown book signing. Dark Faith Book Signing at BookMamas (Indianapolis) Saturday, February 23 Mo*Con (Indianapolis) May 3-5 GenCon (Indianapolis) August...
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Vampires Don’t Sparkle!
About a year ago, Mike West approached me to write a story for a new anthology, Vampires Don’t Sparkle! I planned to write a tongue and cheek mockumentary about the demise of a horribly campy vampire...
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Drive-Thru Movie Reviews
Because your attention span is short, and I don’t have time to write long reviews… No spoilers–ever. 2013 Seven Psychopaths A dark, comedic answer to generic action movies. Sam Rockwell and...
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The Great Gatsby
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald summing up my opinion of Baz Luhrman’s Great Gatsby. This music video meets literary adaptation rarely stops...
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Star Trek: Into Darkness
Overstuffed and needlessly derivative, Trek’s shining moments are swallowed by nonsense plotting and fan pandering. Missed opportunities abound in this uninspiring misstep.
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Before Midnight (recommended)
Brimming with bittersweet honesty and moments of true love, Before Midnight challenges longtime fans of Richard Linklater’s eighteen-year series (Before Sunrise and Before Sunset) to accept the complex...
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Seven Psychopaths (Recommended)
A dark, comedic answer to generic action movies. Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken steal the show in this tale of a blocked writer trying to survive the subjects of his screenplay. This movie has...
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Cabin in the Woods (recommended)
A deliciously subversive send up of the horror genre that will make a Joss Whedon fanboy out of you. Marvel’s Avengers is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this writer. Skip the trailer (how...
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Man of Steel
Some great ideas are rushed past to make room for a repetitive orgy of CGI battle scenes. Henry Cavill shines in the meager moments of character that happen between explosions, but it’s not enough to...
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The Hunger Games
Despite writing a good bit of YA fiction, I avoided this book. I’ll admit to getting turned off by the hype machine. But when my wife, who loved the book, demanded we watch the movie, I finally broke...
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Work In Progress
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2014 Con Schedule
CONverse (Converse, Indiana) January 24-26 Mo*Con (Indianapolis) May 2-4 GenCon (Indianapolis) August 14-17 Context (Columbus, Ohio) September 26-28
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