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Current Mischief – September 27th, 2023

September 27th, 2023

Well, that was a rather exciting and action packed summer. Loads of adventures including a road trip around Southern Alberta for story research, a trip to Victoria for cocktails and general and specific mayhem, and a scorching and challenging fifty kilometer trail ultramarathon in Kalamalka Lake Park (Vernon, B.C.).

On the publishing side, The Seventh Terrace published two novellas – Someone Else’s Story by Laird Ryan States and 30 to 50 Feral Hogs by Dayna Ingram. We’re also finishing up the next entry in our Purgatorio series, this one a flash holiday anthology titled Solstice in Purgatory. It’s looking fabulous and will be out in November.

On the writing side, I recently sold a short story called The Loveseat. More details on this once I can share! I’m also working on a pile of prairie gothic related stories including a novel. Pretty stoked about this project.

In more professional news, I’m now the VP of AWCS (Alexandra Writers’ Centre) for the next year. That should prove interesting.

And I’m co-hosting the October Connections Brewing (Calgary) event next Monday. Come on down!

Connections Brewing (Calgary)
Monday, October 2nd, 2023, 6pm – 9pm MST
Prairie Dog Brewing
105D 58th Ave SE, Calgary
Come ready to mingle and network with the Calgary literary community. Our October event will feature Monsters & Villains trivia.

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Current Mischief – February 13th, 2023

February 13th, 2023

Last week was rather fun, if I do say so myself. Had the pleasure of being interviewed by the amazing Steve Stred for his 3Q series. Check it out here!

And if that wasn’t enough, on February 9th, we celebrated the recent launching of the latest Seventh Terrace anthology, Penitent’s Gold. Great party, with fabulous readings and literary camaraderie.

What I watched: Skinamarink (not sure what the hell I watched there), Dave made a Maze (fun) and Head of the House (weird).

What I read: When the Sky Comes Looking for You: Short Trips Down the Thunder Road by Chadwick Ginther (some entertaining short stories – the raven’s need their own book).

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Current Mischief – January 2023

I should post more here. I should. Just a head’s up I mostly hang out and post over at the small press publishing house The Seventh Terrace. I should cross-post at least. I should…

Anyways, news! While I’ve mostly been working on novels and contributing to the Purgatorio anthologies (the latest being Penitent’s Gold) at The Seventh Terrace, I did have a short story published last week. It’s called “Well Hung” and it fits rather appropriately in a new anthology called The F**ckening from Sci-fi Lampoon.

And speaking of Penitent’s Gold, we’re having a book party for it on February 9th at cSpace in Calgary, Alberta – so if you’re in the vicinity, considering checking it out.

I’ll also be at Wordbridge on February 25th where I’ll be on a panel talking about horror, and giving a presentation about collaborative writing. Should be fun!

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Current Mischief – January 2022

WHAT’S NEW

I should do a better job keeping the site current. I should… I spend most of my free updating/SM time on The Seventh Terrace and Twitter and such though, so that’s where you’ll typically find me.

WRITING

Had a few short stories published. Wrote a bunch, subbed a bunch, hoping 2022 will be a good year.

  • Finished many drafts of A Queen in Amber, my Lovecraftian/Zelaznian novel.
  • “The Last Wave” – my surfing short story was published in the AWCS 40th Anniversary book WonderShift.
  • “Corn Dogs” – a co-write with Sarah L. Johnson was published in Home for the Howlidays by Tyche Books.
  • “Cheeseburger Philosophy” – another weird and wild story for Terrace VI: Forbidden Fruit.
  • “Gravesend” – a fun Trace & Solomon novella co-write with Sarah L. Johnson in Terrace VI: Forbidden Fruit.

EDITING/PUBLISHING

Sarah L. Johnson and I edited and published three books through The Seventh Terrace in 2021.

More great work is in the pipe, including Hell Hast No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted by R.J. Joseph and the next Purgatorio book Terrace V: Penitent’s Gold, for 2022 – stay tuned!

RUNNING

Lots of running in 2021. Too much really, as I damaged both Achilles, didn’t recover, got tendonitis, ignored that, then got wretched bursitis. And tried to run/race through that… until I couldn’t even walk anymore. Anyhows, once I realized how much of an idiot I was, I started a recovery program, stopped running, got Shockwave therapy (or as I like to say, expensive voluntary torture), and have been resting up. I should be able to run again soon!

2021 Races:

  • WAM (Whistler Alpine Meadows) 60 km (September)
  • Lost Soul Ultra 50 km (September)
  • Black Spur Ultra 108 km (August)

2022 Races:

  • Calgary Marathon 50 km (May)
  • Squamish 50 miler (August)
  • WAM – Triple Wammy (Whistler Alpine Meadows) Vert, 25 km, 50km (September)
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Trace & Solomon: Torrington

By Sarah L. Johnson & Robert Bose

We wrote a new thing!

Read the review HERE!

Welcome to Torrington, Alberta. A wide spot in the blacktop, home to the world-famous Gopher Hole Museum above, and a massive convergence of mystical energy below. When a rogue exorcist acquires a soul translocating relic, the Vatican reluctantly – very reluctantly – turns to the only mercenaries capable of taking it back. The hard-drinking, double-crossing, catastrophe-courting mercenaries that sold it to him in the first place.

Trace and Solomon ought to know better. Church work is always a handshake with the Devil, but this time there’s more than money on the line, and it forces them to question what matters most. In this life, and the next.

Available at: Amazon, Amazon Canada, Kobo

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Current Mischief – November 2019

WHAT’S NEW

Wow, it’s been a year since I updated this poor site. Not going to promise to do better because… yeah. Way too many other priorities at the moment.

2019 has been an amazing year thus far. The big news, of course, is that I started a micro horror press with the illustrious Sarah L. Johnson called The Seventh Terrace.

Our first book is a collaboration called Terrace VII: Wall of Fire. It’s a dark little beast. Pick it up and tell us what you think.

WRITING

After a busy summer I managed to get back to some serious writing, both on my novel in progress and numerous short stories. Some great stuff in the pipe that will hopefully find a home ‘out there’ somewhere or in my next collection that’s slowly congealing.

This year I had a couple of short stories published:

  • The King on the Beer Bottle Throne – in Black Dog Review #3
  • Essential Services – in The Stories We Hide: Enigma Front #5

Also had my story, The Last Wave, short listed for the 2019 Raven Short Story Contest at Pulp Literature. Super cool!

EDITING/PUBLISHING

The publishing business is crazy you know? The four books I’ve been working on over the last eighteen months all ended up being released in a late October and early November. Just the way things roll sometimes. Fabulous books, each and every one.

Some cool stuff planned and in the pipe for 2020 – stay tuned!

RUNNING

I ran. A lot. Kept the wheels on for the most part, stayed sane, and found adventure with the best of friends.

Races:

  • Frozen Ass 50 km (February)
  • Calgary Marathon 50 km (May)
  • River Revenge 100 km (June)
  • The Great Canadian Death Race 125 km (August)
  • Lost Soul 100 km (September)

Just getting sorted for 2020. Should be epic.

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Baby It’s Cold Outside

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My latest anthology from Coffin Hop Press is a delicious collection of  Holiday Horror, Christmas Crime and Yuletide Woe!

The fourteen stories in this book are as varied as their authors, with one thing in common: exploring the dark side of that most wonderful time of year. They’ll light your menorahs, stuff your stockings, and keep you warm through those long winter nights.

Featuring deliciously shocking stories from:

  • E.C. Bell – That Old A-Wassailing Scam
  • Alex Benarzi – Nerium
  • Rob Brunet – Blown
  • Chris Patrick Carolan – Circle of Steel
  • M. Jane Colette – Violets
  • S.A Cosby – Sweet Baby Jesus
  • Meredith Frazier – Brother’s Keeper
  • Therese Greenwood – The Power Man
  • Jim Jackson – King Wong & the Mistress of Christmas
  • Claude Lalumière – The Fixer, the Cop, His Ex, and Her Killer
  • Liam Sweeny – Christmas Confessions
  • Kevin P. Thornton – The Shih Tzu’s Present
  • Darusha Wehm – Mistletoe & Holly
  • Sam Weibe – In the Dead of Winter

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Edited by Sarah L. Johnson and Robert Bose, with a fabulous cover by the Axel Howerton.

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Pick it up now at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca or Kobo

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Enigma Front: Onward

Onward

This fantastic new anthology contains my latest short story, ‘One Foot in the Grave’, about a squad of soldiers on a perilous rescue mission.

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We’re living in troubling times. World leaders squabbling like schoolchildren on Twitter. Persistent grim economic forecasts. Unprecedented environmental disasters. Avocado toast. It’s rough out there. Featuring 21 stories from members of the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, ENIGMA FRONT: ONWARD turns a hopeful eye to the future and the past, to worlds real and imagined. Worlds in peril, worlds in their prime, and worlds on the edge of rebirth. Worlds inhabited by curious aliens and helpful Fae folk, by Golden Age heroes and rebellious robots, and by the regular people doing their best to get through it all. Now… ONWARD!

by Chris Patrick Carolan (Author/Editor), Calvin D. Jim (Author), Renee Bennett (Author), Brent Nichols(Author), Alecyn Lea (Author), Kevin Weir (Author), Adria Laycraft (Author), Mark Phillip Ross(Author), Dale McShannock (Author), Lucas K. Law (Author), Katie Harse (Author), Robert Bose(Author), Robert J. Sawyer (Author), Christopher M. Chupik (Author), Celeste A. Peters (Author), Chris Marrs (Author), James Grotkowski (Author), Dan M. Hampton (Author), Elizabeth Grotkowski (Author), Ashton Noone (Author), P. J. Vernon (Author)

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Available in digital and paperback at Amazon.ca and Amazon.com