Another Kairo short story, River of the Blue Carmina, has been published in the latest Weirdbook Magazine #49. Purchase your copy now to read the story.
NEWS! River of the Blue Carmina
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Larkwynn and Ravenblack
The start of another quarter crept up behind me with the point of a blade to my throat, telling me to complete what I have begun. I do my best to comply. I have reached close to the middle point of the dark fantasy novel I am writing.
I don’t like to talk about what I’m writing during the process, but I will divulge a bit. When I created the world for my story, I came up with the name Atios for it. However, by the time I had reached around the fourth chapter, I found that name had been used by someone else. Searching the web, it was difficult to tell how known Atios was to others, but in my despair, I felt the need to change it anyway. My replacement was the name Larkwynn. This time it is chiseled into stone, no matter what may come.
I received the proofs for my Kairo short story River of the Blue Carmina for Weirdbook Magazine #49. Look for it to be on virtual news stands soon.
Lastly, I recently discovered a murder of goth and goth adjacent bands that are now in heavy listening rotation (lest I give the wrong impression, I’m pretty goth adjacent myself, with a dark leathery wing overlap). The favorite discovery is probably Mono Inc. from Germany. Their album Ravenblack is simply delicious, and they have a new album coming out this year. Sirenia and Ancient Myth are great more metal sounding bands. Rounding out the parade are darkwave bands Feyleux, The Birthday Massacre and Harsh Symmetry.
May your all April showers bring melancholy gray clouds and black eyeliner tears.
Don’t call this a reboot
So, it has been a long time, I acknowledge that. Some things have changed and some remain the same.
I am still hard at work writing a dark fantasy novel set in a world of my own making. A world overtaken by a magical darkness, where a new spark of light, unwilling and corrupted though he may be, is the only hope in stopping an unchained evil, and possibly resurrecting a sacred order of good. My plan is to finally finish it by the end of 2025. I may shop it around to publishers before self-publishing as I have my two other books. Fingers crossed that this will be my breakout hit.
I am still waiting on two of my Kairo stories to be published in upcoming Weirdbook Magazine issues. I have a Frankenstein monster in WW2 short story looking for a home.
In addition, I am in the exploratory phase of starting a radio show/ podcast called Electric Darkness (hence the name of the Web site). This will be an audio show that will showcase music (synth, dark, spooky), some old ghost stories, maybe interviews, all in a cozy, low key, dare I say ASMR tone. Of course, I will also use a tiny portion of it to promote my writings.
Stay tuned.
ELECTRIC DARKNESS 