WTF Am I Reading?: Sawney’s Twisted Short Stories
EVERYONE IS A MOON is my definitive collection of short stories (at least, until I write a bunch more). While I’ve categorized the book as Dark Fiction as a whole, I don’t think that label…
10 Favorite Books That Burrowed Into My Brain
I read a lot of books, but frankly I forget about most not long after I’ve finished them. While I may well have enjoyed the reads, only a select few titles have managed to stick…
Revisiting “VENT!”: Famous Filmmakers Origin Stories
A significant element of VENT!’s raison d’être (see previous post) was demonstrating that even the most lauded and famous filmmakers had difficult, even doubtful beginnings. Below are a few true origin stories I had shared on…
Revisiting “VENT!: The Online Magazine for Disgruntled Filmmakers”
Way back in 1997, after I had completed producing my one and so far only feature film on a $60,000 budget, I launched a semi-popular website called VENT! It focused on the flourishing world of…
Interview with James Burns, author of LET’S GO TO HELL: SCATTERED MEMORIES OF THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS
The Butthole Surfers were the most important band I listened to during my formative teen years. They were my Beatles, my Grateful Dead, my One Direction(?). From the first time I heard frontman Gibby Haynes…
ADULT VIDEO: A Small Town Story
Ah, memories! Here’s a personal anecdote about some small town sordidness: I remember when I first saw it. I was coming home on the Long Island Railroad after visiting a friend at the School of…
Centralia: The Black Diamond of Columbia County!
The Hottest Tourist Spot in Central Pennsylvania There are no welcome signs (excepting the town line markers) greeting visitors today to Centralia, PA, but there needn’t be any. Upon entering the historic coal mining borough,…
UGLYVILLE: Writing an Untypical Young Adult Book
My new novella UGLYVILLE has just been released, and, like my debut novel DEAD SIZE, I once again can’t really tell you who the audience is for it. A Young Adult book perhaps… if the…
Sawney’s Top 10 Favorite Films of All Time
As a lifelong movie buff, choosing my top 10 favorite films was really, really, really difficult. I gave myself some rules: no honorable mentions and I had to pick films that stand on their own,…
Sawney’s Top 10 Favorite Horror Films (Easter Edition)
In observance of the second scariest holiday of the year (zombie Jesus is coming for us all!), here are my 10+ favorite horror films of all time. This is by no means an exhaustive list…