Writerly Friends

   Writing is a lonely business, so it's nice to find people who suffer as much as I do with the craft. Some of these people I've met face to face, others I've only met online, but all have helped me in one way or another.  Check out their stuff and see what you think.

Sam W. Anderson
Sam writes stories that would make Ray Bradbury proud.  They're pointed, concise, and damn entertaining.  Oh, and did I mention he has a collection of them coming out this winter? He's my go to guy for any question on submitting stories, business protocol, and the habits of self-pleasuring midgets.  Sam has placed work (fiction and non-fiction) in Cemetery Dance, Insidious Reflections, Doorways and Dark Animus.

John Mantooth
Hailing from Alabama, this bus driving, English teaching, basketball coaching, beer swilling son of a bitch has the best narrative voice of anyone I know.  I go homicidal with jealousy reading his stuff.  He's had stories published in: Shimmer, GUD, Electric Velocipede, Horror Library Volumes I & II, came in second in the Apex Magazine Halloween contest, etc.  Pretty damn impressive, don't you think?

Petra Miller
Petra was the grand prize winner in Writer's Digest's 2006 Popular Fiction Contest with this little gem "Saving Grace".  Isn't that awesome?  She drinks, smokes, and swears like a guy.  And this story,
"The Potluck", makes me laugh every time.

Erik Williams
When I finish Erik's stories, I usually want to take a shower because I feel disgusting.  And that's the biggest compliment I can pay anyone.  I'm also always left wondering just what Erik's political beliefs are because he skewers both sides in a single story; that's damn hard to do.  He's placed stories in GUD, From the Asylum, Down in the Cellar, and others.

Tom Tessier
An honest-to-God legend. Tom's been at it for over thirty years and still helps out the little guy (that'd be me).  Do yourself a favor and read FINISHING TOUCHES, then ask yourself why this guy isn't as big as Stephen King. 

Sunil Sadanand
Sunil's stories make me want to give up writing.  His stories are razor-sharp and always have meat to them.  If you want your ass kicked in a critique, he's your man.  And he's spot-on everytime.  Click HERE for his website to read his impressive resume.

Cameron Pierce
He was my roommate at Borderlands, an eighteen year old kid who read aloud a story that Tom Monteleone called "the most mesmerizing bullshit I've ever heard in my life."  I don't pretend to understand Cameron's stories; I just read them in awe of the pharmacueticals he must have at hand when he writes them.  Read some of his stories HERE.