Tag Archives: Richard Dansky

Updates and October

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A couple of quick updates:

As you might have noticed, I don’t update this site too much. If you want to keep up with what’s actually going on with me, most of my words are devoted to my Patreon site. You can find that link here. I promise, it is chock full of daily goodness. There’s everything from essays on music and books to Bigfoot to behind the scenes looks at my career to audio versions of my stories to original fiction.

Likewise, you can get my books and other stuff directly from my online store, which also features t-shirts and hopefully some additional stuff after the start of the new year. The shirts are made by my niece, and the money from those goes to her to keep her in pizza money at college. The books, those are me, and they include copies of stuff that is out of print or otherwise hard to find. And of course, I will cheerfully autograph, inscribe, or deface anything you order.

I am now selling some items from my personal library over at PangoBooks. You can find that stuff here. There’s a wide range of books, genres, editions, and so forth, and I’m adding to it pretty much every day.

And here’s my upcoming appearances:

October 15th – I’ll be reading as part of the legendary Noir at the Bar series at Yonder in Hillsborough, alongside such luminaries as Katy Munger, Jill McCorkle, Eryk Pruitt, and more.
October 17th – Catch me, along with Rikki Goodwin, Jon Carroll Thomas, and death metal band Noctomb, for Morbid Tales IV at Moon Dog Meadery in Durham. There will be fiction. There will be mead. There will be metal. Very loud metal. You have been warned.
October 23rd – There’s going to be a whole mess of horror writers from the HWA Carolinas chapter and Necksnap Magazine at the Museum of Natural Sciences for Tales of Woe, a spooky Halloween event. There will be readings! There will be discussions of horror! There will be no stickers given away, because this is a museum and you don’t do that sort of thing. But you should be there!
October 31st – If it’s Halloween, then it’s time for ghost stories in the graveyard at Mystic Farm & Distillery! We’re going to have more authors, ranging from the “mildly spooky” to the “oh my God, why didn’t they put down tarps” as the night goes along. Hope to see you there!

Ghosts of Smoke and Flame

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I am more than happy to announce that my new novel, Ghosts of Smoke and Flame, will be released on February 19th! A story of rookie ghosts, a lovesick angel, a demonic cell phone, a possibly psychic cat, and more it’s proof that even if you think your family is Hell, things can always be worse…

You can pre-order the eBook here. In the meantime, gaze in wonder at the awesome cover by renowned comics artist and author Matthew Dow Smith!

Necon 2025

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Just got back from my annual trip to New England for Necon, which was, as ever, a delight. This year I had the privilege of serving as Toastmaster, and was thus tasked with delivering the opening toast to the convention, as well as hosting the welcoming dinner for the Guests of Honor and interviewing the Writer Guests of Honor (Cynthia Pelayo, Errick Nunnally, and Eric LaRocca) onstage. I also moderated a panel on writing local horror, MCed the improvisational humorous writing competition Write Club (where I was gloriously sandbagged onstage by my girlfriend), co-hosted Necon Update (a humorous look at the con and various campers), and hosted a new event where first-time Necon attendees got to give a reading. Oh, and Ellen and I also hosted a late night unofficial Scotch and Cheese party, which was by all accounts a smashing success.

And there was some other stuff that went on that I will talk about later.

But it was great, I promise. Already planning for next year!

 

Going To The Mountains to Read

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Saturday, May 31, I’ll be part of a group reading at the Story Parlor in Asheville, NC to support Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. It goes without saying that western North Carolina got absolutely hammered by a hurricane last year, and while the folks out there have done a great job of rebuilding, they’re not getting a hell of a lot of help from Washington right now. So if you’re in the area, swing by and help out a little, because the lineup is great and so is the cause. And if you can’t make it, maybe check out Brother Wolf and see if you can help them a bit anyway.

Hope to see you there!

Mo*Con News

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I am thrilled to announce that I will be a Special Guest at this year’s Mo*Con, the annual gathering of talented and mighty folks hosted by writer, Afrofuturist, and general man about town Maurice Broaddus. Details of the show can be found here, if you’re interested in attending!

 

 

Nightmare Logic 2025!

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I am happy bey0nd words to announce that Falstaff Dread has picked up my new novel NIGHTMARE LOGIC for publication next year! This is the scariest, most horrific novel I have written, and I am thrilled that the fine folks at Falstaff believe in it and want to bring it to you. Keep watching this space for updates!

Some Love From A Goat

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Kayleigh Dobbs of Happy Goat Horror was kind enough to turn her eye to me and A MEETING IN THE DEVIL’S HOUSE.  She reviewed it, and you have to love any review that includes a break in the action to question whether the author is all right – which you can find right here.

She also sat down for a pleasant hour’s conversation which covered everything from writing for games to the true story behind the zombie frog tale “Meemaw’s Frogs”.  If you have the time, check it out – the conversation was a lot of fun. You can find it here.

Meanwhile the reviews keep rolling in on Amazon – two new ones say nice things like “MEETING IN THE DEVIL’S HOUSE is a meeting you don’t want to miss” and “The amazing thing is that each story is a master class in short fiction. Dansky’s writing in this collection reminds me of the first time I read Bradbury’s October Country. That’s the highest praise I can bestow!”