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The January 2002 issue of Fangoria magazine included an article/interview with me about my writing.  It is now posted here in the Albums section, on the right side of this page.  Repeat click to enlarge the Fangoria pages.

Last year I wrote an Introduction to Lisa Tuttle's fine novella, "My Death," which is available in both hardcover and paperback.

For more information: http://pspublishing.co.uk/cat/md.asp

Lisa is one of our best writers, but her work doesn't seem to receive the attention and appreciation it deserves.  Here is what I wrote.

The new paperback edition of my novel FINISHING TOUCHES was published in August by Leisure Books and is available in bookstores and online.  The volume also includes my novella, "Father Panic's Opera Macabre." 

I put down some thoughts on both of these stories and horror literature in general, which you can read at http://dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/SpecialFeatures.cfm?ID=1971

Bill Sheehan, the author of AT THE FOOT OF THE STORY TREE and a book reviewer for The Washington Post and other publications, chose FINISHING TOUCHES as the subject of his critical piece in HORROR: ANOTHER 100 BEST BOOKS, edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman and with a Foreword by Peter Straub, to be published Fall 2005 by Carroll & Graf.  I've been fortunate to have more good reviews than bad, over the years, but this is by far the best, most perceptive look at any of my novels.   More details at http://carrollandgraf.com

     "It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body."
                -- Judith Rossner, Washington Post interview, 1983

The trade edition of CINEMA MACABRE, edited by Mark Morris, is due to be released by PS Publishing any day now.  The deluxe edition, signed by all of the contributors, will be available before the end of the year.  CINEMA MACABRE includes contributions from about 50 science fiction, horror or fantasy authors, each writing about one of his/her favorite movies. 

My piece is on PRETTY POISON (1968), starring Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, which was based on the novel SHE LET HIM CONTINUE by Stephen Geller.  The movie was set in Massachusetts, but in the book, the story takes place here in the Naugatuck Valley.

More information:http://pspublishing.co.uk

I will be taking part in the Borderlands Press Bootcamp in Baltimore, January 20-22, 2006. The Bootcamp is a weekend workshop for new and developing writers, and I will be working with this year's class on the issues of character and point of view in the novel.

Other participating authors include Jack Ketchum, Thomas F. Monteleone, David Morrell, F. Paul Wilson, Elizabeth Massie and Douglas E. Winter.

More information on the Bootcamp and Borderlands books: http://borderlandspress.com

Check out and enjoy Carl W. Lawson's wonderful art at http://cwlawson.com

Carl and I grew up in the same neighborhood in Naugatuck, CT.  In our high school years we worked together at the Finast supermarket on Church Street.  He had a VW bug, and he could put it through a full 360 slide going down Field Street in the snow.

My favorite painting on Carl's website is the one of the Frontier Cafe in Beacon Falls.  I used to stop in there three or four times a year with my brothers, Bob, Ken and Alan.  The owner, Lenny Dorosh, was a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, and his bar was a shrine to the team, full of Red Sox memorabilia.  It was a great place to have a beer and talk baseball, it felt like an extension of Lenny's living room (like many pub landlords in Ireland and England, he lived upstairs).  The last time we went there was a few days after Christmas, 2003.  A few weeks later, Lenny died at the age of 73, about nine months short of seeing the Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in his life.

The Frontier Cafe has been closed ever since.  Even if it does eventually re-open, it will certainly be changed, very different.  I'm so glad Carl caught it forever.

     "It's not possible to be wise and in love at the same time."
          -- Bob Dylan, in the Scorsese documentary NO DIRECTION HOME