A different take on the old summertime shark-attack story, from my forthcoming third volume of collected short stories, to be published by C...

Remarks on Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at the opening night of the 2013 Rhode Island International Film Festival: Thank you Don Farish, tha...

Top Brain, Bottom Brain: Surprising Insights into How You Think by Stephen Kosslyn My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Kosslyn is one of the world’...

Front page of the July 28, 2013, Providence Sunday Journal.  Art by The Journal's Tom Murphy.  With an extensive print and online p...

Arriving on November 5, 2013: Top Brain, Bottom Brain: Surprising Insights Into How You Think , a Simon & Schuster book co-authored wi...

I am honored and humbled to be named the 2013 winner of the Roger Williams Independent Voice Award from the Flickers: Rhode Island Internati...

 UPDATE, 7/12/13: Listen to Mark Slade's interview of me on his latest Dark Dreams podcast . We talk horror, non-fiction and writing of ...

UPDATE: Critical praise for the collection is coming in! VAPORS, volume 2 of my collected horror, sci-fi and mystery stories, is no...

 My interest in how society treats its mentally ill and challenged has endured for decades. Publication of Abandoned Asylums of New England:...