Selling THE WATER TOWER 5 led to a weird sort of crisis of conscience for me. I was excited to get started on the next novel, ready to...

Yes, it finally happened. Yesterday I got word from Super Agent Kerry Sparks that she had finalized a deal with Sourcebooks to publish...

So, after failing to get a literary agent for my first novel, Lucky Town, today I signed with Kerry Sparks of LGR (Levine, Greenburg,...

In preparing for a class I’m teaching this trimester – Best Sellers – I re-ran across this fantastic video of Neil Gaiman espousing the...

So it looks like it’s been six months since I’ve written here. I’ll bring everyone up to date: I just finished my novel, The Water Tower...

Is Ian Rogers the nicest guy in horror? Probably. I don’t know anyone who has anything bad to say about him, and to be honest, I don’t...

John Mantooth is not only one of my best friends, he’s also easily one of the best writers I know. The dude’s got voice, and that’s –...

When I first started writing seven (or so) years ago, a lot was made of finding a mentor. I understood the idea – having someone out...

Like Erik Williams, who I interviewed a month or so back, I met Sam W. Anderson in Baltimore a handful of years ago. He’s sort of like...

So after all of the rejections, here’s what happened: I felt like a failure. How could I not? I spent four years on the novel, fully...

I have a lot on my mind (for once) and need vomit it all out. I’m waaaay out of sorts writing-wise for various reasons, and have decided...

I first met Erik Williams back in – hmmmm – 2002 (?) in Baltimore at a writer’s workshop. I was new to writing then, showing up at a...

I met Fred Venturini at the World Horror Con in Austin, Texas back in 2011. He was talking with Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones,...

Daryl Gregory is the author of three (fantastic) novels, a collection of short stories, and a couple of comic series. I suppose his...

Writing Update: So, about a month and a half ago I finished the sixth (and hopefully final) draft of Lucky Town, my 74K YA novel about a...

Been away awhile. I suck at this blogging thing. In better news though, the (novel) writing is going well, so there’s that. Some...