Author: Fred

  • Looking back, looking ahead

    Looking back, looking ahead

    As we start 2025, let me begin by saying thank you to everyone out there who purchased one of the anthologies I was featured in or read one of my stories in 2024. While I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, I became serious about trying to do something with it about… Read more

  • Share some Christmas magic

    Share some Christmas magic

    We’re only a couple of weeks away from Christmas. Hard to believe. If you’re like me, you probably still need a few gifts to go around (or all of them). If you happen to have a few readers on your nice list who’d be interested in goblin tricks, wild west mages, alien orphans, or rednecks… Read more

  • What will you find in the Goblin Bazaar?

    What will you find in the Goblin Bazaar?

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  • Happy Halloween horror double feature

    Happy Halloween horror double feature

    Happy Halloween. In the spirit of the spooky season, I have two new stories out today for your enjoyment. If you’re looking for fun, “Some Beach,” featured in It Came from the Trailer Park, Volume IV, from Three Ravens Publishing, might be the one for you. Earl Boudreaux just wanted to take the annual vacation… Read more

  • Take on tentacled terrors for Halloween

    Take on tentacled terrors for Halloween

    I’ve rarely had more fun writing a story than “Some Beach,” featured in It Came from the Trailer Park IV, which arrives — quite appropriately — on Halloween from Three Ravens Publishing. Earl Boudreaux just wanted to enjoy his annual summer vacation — a trip to the big Bass Pro Shop in Springfield and a… Read more

  • Travel the Cursed Canyon today

    Travel the Cursed Canyon today

    Meet your new favorite Old West wizard (I hope) today in my story “Blackhand,” now available from Raconteur Press. I’ve been looking forward to this release for a while now as it introduces a character I’ve roamed the plains of my mind with for several years, Bartimaeus, also known as No Man’s Son. He’s a… Read more

  • Meet Bartimaeus in Wyrd West: Cursed Canyon

    Meet Bartimaeus in Wyrd West: Cursed Canyon

    On Oct. 18, you’ll meet a character I’m very excited about. He’s roamed the plains in my mind for several years now, and his first story, “Blackhand,” will be featured in the upcoming anthology Wyrd West: Cursed Canyon from Raconteur Press. Bart, known often as No Man’s Son, solves problems of a special sort. In… Read more

  • Beautiful Darkness Vol. 3 coming Oct. 30

    Beautiful Darkness Vol. 3 coming Oct. 30

    Read one of my favorite stories, “The Torturer’s Apprentice,” in Beautiful Darkness, Vol. 3, due out from Dragon Soul Press just in time for Halloween. I’ve wanted to see this story in print for a long time. A story once dubbed “too gruesome” in a rejection from a well-known author and editor, it won’t be… Read more

  • Alien Family Values now available

    Alien Family Values now available

    Alien Family Values, featuring my story “Learning to Fly,” is now available from Raconteur Press. Even though her strange appearance marks her as obviously adopted, Saraya is the apple of her father’s eye. She is the only one of his children that’s shown an interest or aptitude for the magical arts that are his passion.… Read more