Hey everybody, M. here,

Wow! I totally meant to post about this early last month and stuff has just gotten away from me. I’ve been pretty busy and getting used to doing things a bit differently, as at the end of July I relocated and it was my first major move in more than a decade. Since then I have been able to get some pictures posted over on Facebook of my contributor copy of Necronomi-RomCom (Dark Edition) but have been too distracted with settling in and other assorted excitement of a mentally taxing variety to post images of the book on this here blog until now. So without further ado, here are some pictures of it!

For those who ended up here through an errant, perhaps drunken Google search and have no idea what they’re looking at, this one half of the latest horror duology published by new indie press Transformations by Obsidian Butterfly which contains 19-some “Lovecraftian horror rom-coms.” That is to say, romantic comedy/horror mashups that employ elements of the Cthulhu Mythos.

If you’ve read some of my stuff before you might already know that this is not my first shoggoth-wrangling rodeo when it comes to mashing up cosmic horror with romantic comedy (as you’ll find most recently in my story in the From Beyond The Threshold anthology which came out last year and has at least a little bit of that vibe, I think).

My story in Necronomi-RomCom, Hearts Synchronize, follows our perennially underemployed hero Greg Beaman, whose messy and madcap search for love brings him into contact with truths metaphysical, beings extra-spatial, and horrors sometimes horrific and sometimes hilarious. I’ve included a picture of that bit from the story intro right there so you can get a feel for what you’re getting yourself into. If it seems like you’re kind of thing, you can order a copy right here or if you want even MORE stories in a Necronomi-romcomantic vein, grab a copy of the hardcover omnibus edition, which contains all the stories from both the Dark and Light versions of the book (and which has a cover that takes the already incredible covers of both books and does something even more incredible and totally high-concept with them).

And if you dig the story, please do give the book a review on Amazon, Goodreads, your blog, or wherever else reviews are found!

Anyway, things have been a little slow going over here with all the distraction, but I’ve been working on some stuff in fits and starts that will hopefully start coming together over the next few months. I’ve once again been going back and forth about if I should try to get into a schedule of writing and posting movie reviews here, or maybe some other sort of content that people can get into between when I’ve got new stories coming out in anthologies to talk about, but I’ve as yet bonked on that. I have at least been watching more movies again recently, though–I picked up a latter-day Claude Chabrol collection that I have been working my way through as well as a couple Bela Tarr movies.

Also don’t forget I’ve got my story Sticky coming out in Chthonic Matter Quarterly at the end of this year. More about that one should be coming soon.

Time for me to try to get some work done. Drop me a line or write a review or follow me on Facebook if you dig what I do (I’m still there for now, even though they seem to be throttling the reach for author pages so much now that I might actually start looking for another social media platform to put my stuff on and/or scroll mindlessly.)

Take care everyone,
-M.