Quotes

to Kealan Patrick Burke Why don't you ask Bram the talking wonder dog about The Cabbie Homicide! Never in my life I wrote about funny talking animals, you had to be really damn drunk or spent time in the paddy wagon to come up with this.

I didn't expect to be known as a creative nonfiction contributor even by Lee Gutkind but even as a horror author in my fictional output I found myself fact checked because I did what Richard Matheson also was prone to, the histories in my works are real and the villages well they belong to everyone. The characters I create are people I knew or grew up with at some point. The Cabbie Homicide took me 90 minutes to churn out and it became the story that all the publishers know it's a rite of passage with me.

Selling a reprinted piece to Tales of the Talisman 2.1 that stuck around my journal for a good two years -- I had something to prove as I wanted to show that I was able to be published with a single entry journal. Cabbie was a bit of a curse to me though, the story I didn't like talking about for years or tried to distance myself from it in 2005. But the roster who became the first namesake had me coming full circle with it. Tales of the Talisman (when Jackie Druga supervised the overall production, did see something in me at 25.)

When you have creative nonfiction, you need advocates to get the word out. It's not an easy thing to sell to magazines and the magazines often are a handling fee market akin to Lee Gutkind's outfit is. Don't pass those up because it's cheaper than a stamp, and not everyone has printer to work with. The form within genre circles is distinct, a few of us did it -- I was the only one who brought it to a paying market within Ralan.com.