This past Tuesday I travelled to Ottawa to take part in the Chiaroscuro Reading Series, along with Sandra Kasturi and Alison Sinclair. The reading went very well, easily one of my best, and the audience seemed to really dig my story, which was a new Black Lands tale featuring Jerry Baldwin called “Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law.”

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Very excited to announce I've sold a new Felix Renn story, "Eyes Like Poisoned Wells," to Cemetery Dance Publications for the next installment in their Shivers anthology series. Cemetery Dance is one of the best horror publishers around and I'm very honoured to have a Felix story in one of their fine books.

Currently readilng: Night Moves, by Alan ( Read more... )

There were a couple of reviews of SuperNOIRtural Tales posted over the holiday break. Ted E. Grau over at The Cosmicomicon had this to say:

Rogers' style is a perfect fit for this sort of fiction, as his writing is clean and straight ahead, without a lot of jazz hands, while also dashing the stew with a necessary amount of sarcasm and bone dry, ( Read more... )

2013 was another slow reading year for me. I read 33 novels, 23 novellas, and 188 short stories. That's 10 fewer novels than last year, and 30 fewer than the year before that. On the plus side, I read twice as many short stories than I did in 2012, and more novellas as well.

Once again, instead of limiting my lists of favourites to ten or fifteen ( Read more... )

It’s that time again. The year-end review. I know some people are probably sick of reading these things, but I still enjoy summing up the previous year’s accomplishments and milestones. It’s as much for myself as it is for my friends, family, and fans. It’s a lot easier to look back to these year-end reviews than to scroll through the hundreds of ( Read more... )

Yesterday ended up being quite the day.

First of all, in the morning I received an e-mail telling me that my story, "The Lighthouse of Midian," had been accepted for the anthology Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed, edited by Joseph Nassise and Del Howison, to be published in hardcover, trade paperback, and eBook by Tor Books in Fall ( Read more... )

I started writing the first Felix Renn novel today.

One chapter down.

And away we go.

I was very excited, and honoured, to find out that my debut horror collection, Every House Is Haunted, has been nominated for the ReLit Award. This was especially exciting for me because the ReLit Awards were founded by Kenneth J. Harvey, one of my favourite authors. If you haven't read The Town That Forgot How to Breathe, you should pick it up ( Read more... )

What better way to celebrate the Halloween season than with a new anthology of horror tales! Chilling Tales 2 features an all-Canadian line-up of excellent authors, including yours truly. My contribution is called "Day Pass" and it's a Black Lands story, although you won't find Felix Renn in this one.


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This fall is shaping up to be a busy one. This was supposed to be a quiet time of year for me in terms of appearances, but I’ve made a few exceptions because I do like getting out to meet fellow readers and booklovers, and these upcoming events are all relatively close by.

First up is Word on the Street, which takes place this Sunday, September 22nd ( Read more... )