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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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  • Rue Morgue
  • Aardvark Design
  • RI Home, Living & Design
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  • Web Consulting
  • Web Marketing: SEO and Email
  • Journalism
  • Editing
  • Blogging

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Even More Submissions

I mentioned back in June that I’d put some book and comics submissions out into the world. No word on some yet, a few rejections on others. Still, the dude abides.

As of now, I’ve got a short comic script in with the editor of an established publisher and am about to start sending out a second set of book proposals (same book) and a comic miniseries proposal, with art by the truly awesome Shane Oakley, to various publishers.

Wish me even more luck!

Rue Morgue #44

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.

Rue Morgue #45

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.

Rue Morgue #55

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.

Rue Morgue #35

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.

Rue Morgue #54

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.

Rue Morgue #56

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.

Bitch #24

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.

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Rue Morgue #57

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)