I am a writer, editor, and web consultant who works with marketing companies, web development and IT agencies, magazines, websites, and other organizations. I help clients develop and refine messages, ideas, and businesses through precise, creative writing, accurate grammar, and cutting edge web consulting.
I am available for freelance projects in any of these areas, and also in writing or editing fiction, comics, and graphic novels.
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Article: Review: Cube Zero
Publication: Rue Morgue
Published: April 2005
My very negative review of the third - and hopefully final - installment in the trilogy started in the very good indie hit Cube (1997). The best that can be said for this one is that it was better ?han its predecessor, the dreadful Cube 2: Hypercube.
Article: Travelogue of Terror: The Mutter Museum
Publication: Rue Morgue
Published: May 2005
This travelogue details my trip to Philadelphia’s collection of medical oddities and specimens, The Mutter Museum. Fascinating, upsetting, and scary, the Mutter is as required a stop when you’re in Philly as Geno’s Steaks or the Art Museum’s “Rocky” steps.
Article: Feature: Corpse Comics
Publication: Rue Morgue
Published: April 2006
This was a two-page spread round-up of zombie comics to accompany a package that featured Robert Kirkman’s hit Marvel Zombies. I reviewed Warren Ellis’ BlackGas, the hideous Escape of the Living Dead, TokyoPop’s OEL The Abandoned and War on Flesh, and Boom! Studios’ very good anthology Zombie Tales.
Article: Feature: Asian Horror Comics Roundup
Publication: Rue Morgue
Published: Sept./Oct. 2003
This article was a feature-length round-up of some of the best Asian horror comics being published at the time. The piece covered Junji Ito’s masterful Uzumaki, the frenetic Korean actioner Priest, the stylish Malaysian Malay Mysteries, and the somewhat weaker TokyoPop offering Island. This was really my breakthrough article at RM, after a short article appeared a number of months before.
Article: Review: Zombie Honeymoon
Publication: Rue Morgue
Published: March 2006
My largely positive review of the very good indie horror/romance film Zombie Honeymoon. This was the movie I enjoyed most from The Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival 2005.
Short Story: Free Eugneia!
Publication: Punk Planet
Published: Spring 2004
A short story about Eugenia, a former Black Panther who, ?n early 90s Los Angeles, has become a crack addict. She wanders through her memories on her way to her dealer.
Article: Travelogue of Terror: Lovecraft’s Providence
Publication: Rue Morgue
Published: May 2006
The Travelogue of Terror piece is about Rhode Island’s most famous resident, H.P. Lovecraft. The articles takes readers on a short walking tour through the most imporant Lovecraftian sites in Providence, including his birthplace, homes, location of his collected papers, and his grave.
Article: Primetime Necrophilia
Publication: Bitch
Published: Spring 2004
My article was a short, front-of-the-book item about Spike TV sexualizing women’s corpses to drive viewers to the re-runs of CSI. Ghastly and strange and it seemed that someone at Spike got the point pretty quickly, since the ads seemed to stop running after a few weeks or months.
I had two stories in this issue of Rue Morgue
Article 1: Travelogue of Terror: The Blob Fest
Article 2: Review: The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle
Publication: Rue Morgue
Published: June 2006
The Travelogue of Terror piece is about Pennsylvania’s annual BlobFest, which celebrates the film The Blob, held in the same town where the movie was partially filmed.
The review is of a fairly entertaining book. More at Amazon (where you can buy it, too)
My first comic published by someone other than me.
Title: Dark Matter
Artist: Jeff Palmer
Publication: Variants #2
Publisher: Variance Press
Published: December 2005
Format: 8-page story
Story synopsis: On a lonely road in the dark Kansas night, a man stops to pick up a woman walking along the side of the road. He wants to help her, but she resists. After the comet creases the night sky and strange sounds seep out of the radio, she changes her mind and asks him to take her to his home. There, things happen that he never could have expected when he stopped to pick her up. “Dark Matter” is a story about an ordinary astronomy teacher’s encounter with the extraordinary. It’s about the incredible things that make up the world but are hidden to most people. It is about the things we know are there, but can never see.