Category: Writing
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A Voice Calling released
Yesterday was the official release date for my novella, A Voice Calling. It’s a story about a haunted house that does very terrible things to its inhabitants over the decades, and the town that has never quite known what to do about it. It moves back and forth through time, depicting the various families that…
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Kirkus Review of Monstrous Alterations
Another review of Monstrous Alterations has come in, this time from Kirkus Reviews, which had this to say about the book: Barzak’s lyrical short story collection reimagines fairy tales and other classic stories. The adaptations draw on children’s classics such as Brothers Grimm fairy tales, J.M. Barrie’s stories of Peter Pan, and L. Frank Baum’s The…
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Publishers Weekly Review of Monstrous Alterations
I hope everyone out there is doing well. I just wanted to post this review of Monstrous Alterations from Publishers Weekly here, if you’re not following me on one of my socials. It’s made me a very happy writer. I hope if you’ve purchased the collection, and if you’ve begun reading it, that you’re enjoying…
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Signed Copies of Wonders of the Invisible World
In just less than two weeks, my new novel, Wonders of the Invisible World, will be released. I’m incredibly excited for this book to find its way to readers. The local book launch event for the book will be held at Barnes and Nobles in Boardman, Ohio on September 11th, at 7 PM, where I’ll give…
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Being on Set for Jamie Marks is Dead
At the end of this past week, I took a spontaneous trip to upstate New York to visit the film set for the movie “Jamie Marks is Dead” which is based on my first novel, One for Sorrow. The director and script writer, Carter Smith, had sent me an email earlier in the week inviting me…
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Interfictions goes online
Another new development for 2013 is that Interfictions, the anthology series that Delia Sherman launched first with co-editor Theodora Goss and then with me as co-editor of the second volume, will be moving into an online incarnation, including poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and hybrids forms. Fiction editors are myself and Meghan McCarron. Nonfiction and poetry editor…