To give you some brief background, Kresge Arts in Detroit awards 18 fellowships every year, 9 in four categories in a biannual rotation. I turned in my application for a Literary Arts Fellowship last week. As I filled out this year's, I referred to my application from 2013 and I discovered something surprising and quite … Continue reading Applying for the Kresge Artist Fellowship
Author: SeanMDavis
For Love
A while ago, I cracked open my fortune cookie to find this. I immediately put it on the keyboard of my computer. Today, I found myself thinking about loving writing. I realized that there are two fundamental truths about it. Love costs It costs effort. There are days when you won't want to write. You … Continue reading For Love
Addiction, Seven Years Later
I started smoking when I was sixteen for the same reason thousands of teenagers do: to look cool in front of my friends. The first pack I bought were Camels, unfiltered. Let me tell you, that pack lasted me longer than any pack I bought since. I'd only light up around my friends and only … Continue reading Addiction, Seven Years Later
Blog Tour for An Aberrant Mind by Ken MacGregor
Ken MacGregor writes horror, fantasy, mystery, comedy and children's fiction, the elements sometimes overlapping. His short stories have appeared in anthologies by Siren's Call Publications, Hazardous Press, Blood Bound Books, Mystery and Horror, LLC and more. Cellar Door, which includes one of Ken's stories, won the Gothic Readers' Choice Award in 2013. Ken is a … Continue reading Blog Tour for An Aberrant Mind by Ken MacGregor
Blog Tour Post
This week, I'll be answering some questions about my writing process for a Blog Tour that Michael Cieslak included me on. Michael is a Board Member for the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers and writer and editor. His latest anthology, Desolation: 21 Tales for Tails, includes tales of loneliness, isolation, and abandonment. A portion … Continue reading Blog Tour Post
Appearances at Penguicon 2014
This weekend, May 2-4, I'll be at Penguicon. Here's their cool trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IivdCtatJqA I'll be presenting on several panels with some cool authors. Here's my schedule: Friday, May 2: 6p, The Hidden Subgenres The number of genres into which Speculative Fiction may be divided approaches infinity. Most are familiar with Hard Sci-Fi, the Space Opera, … Continue reading Appearances at Penguicon 2014
Borderlands Press Bootcamp
This past weekend, I attended the Borderlands Press Writers’ Bootcamp. If you’re considering attending the Bootcamp or other retreat or seminar or six week course, I have two words for you: Do it. If you think that you don’t need to because you’re already a good writer, you’re wrong. You can always get better. Here’s … Continue reading Borderlands Press Bootcamp
Clean Freak Reviewed
Sherri White from Horror World reviewed Clean Freak. It's a nice, positive review and I couldn't be happier. Read the review here. If you don't have your copy yet, you can buy it here, here, or here.
Theme
Hey, it's been a long time. Too long. I will endeavor to be better about posting here regularly with what I'm up to, appearances, progress, thoughts about writing and all the other fun stuff in this writer's life I lead. I'm going to begin catching up with what's happened most recently. Today, I and some … Continue reading Theme
Grammar Batman
A moment from my life and day job. For exposition's sake, Jim is my boss. Jim: Just double-checking. "Who's" is "who is" and "whose" is possessive, right? Me: Yeah, that's right. Jim: That's what I thought. Just thought I'd double-check with the Grammar Police. Me: I'm not the Grammar Police. I'm more like a Grammar … Continue reading Grammar Batman
The Chimerical Dark 