Bricks Without Straw

Happy New Year! I'm pleased to announce that Morpheus Tales #19 is now available. This issue contains my story Killing Wallace Crawton . You can buy it in a variety of formats. Check out the free preview on Issuu.com. The ebook in various formats is available on Smashwords , or at Amazon for the Kindle. The printed digest size edition is available here , and the printed Large Format Collector's Edition is available here  (both 10% off until 1st of February).

Thanks, Morpheus Tales, for picking up my story, KILLING WALLACE CRAWTON, which is tentatively scheduled to appear in e-book format in MT #19 (January 2013). This is one of my favorite stories to-date, partly because I wrote it shortly after reading TRUE GRIT, and partly because it fills in some history for my fictional town, Mill Town, Ontario, which figures in several stories (both horror and literary). You can read a bit about KILLING WALLACE CRAWTON here, in a post I made just after writing it in May, 2011.

I recently finished reading the wonderful novel, TRUE GRIT. Portis's voicing of Mattie Ross is exceptional, and, having seen the Coen Brothers' movie before reading the book, it was impossible to not see Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, and Matt Damon behind the words. Also extraordinarily impressive is the job the Coen Brothers did in bringing the book onto the screen. There is a southern lyricism and bare-faced honesty in the writing, which they preserved, which is truly inspirational. So what does this have to do with zombies?