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Look what came in the mail today… I got my very first copy of The Tribe II: Camp Cannibal and it is a thing of hard-bound beauty! The Tribe is back April 22nd… along with an East coast mini-tour. Get ready!

Book trailer time! THE TRIBE II: CAMP CANNIBAL hits the shelves April 22nd from Disney/Hyperion. Thanks to Daniel Kramer for the kick-ass trailer. Order your copy now! This one's a doozy... Check it out here: http://bit.ly/1eRTMXP

Greetings from Colombia! A special moment happened on the set of THE BOY during our final week of shooting. As you may recall, our producer, Elijah Wood, starred in a certain movie titled THE GOOD SON with our leading daddy David Morse. They haven't seen each other in over twenty one years. Twenty o...

Check out the kick-ass cover for THE TRIBE II: CAMP CANNIBAL! The second installment in the Tribe trilogy hits shelves April 22nd. If you know what's good for your friends and your family, you'll pick this book up before somebody gets hurt. Maybe you should pick up a couple copies. Don't say we didn...

The Wrap just announced our official line-up for THE BOY and it's a doooooozy. Rainn Wilson (The Office), David Morse (The Green Mile), Mike Vogel (Under the Dome), Zuleikha Robinson (Homeland) and Bill Sage (We Are What We Are) have all joined our dream ensemble cast. Add our main man, 9 year old ...

It's official: After two years in development, we are bringing the feature film version of our short Henley to the big screen. Now titled THE BOY, we begin principal photography next month in Medellin, Colombia. Written by me and our director Craig Macneill, based on my novel Miss Corpus, produced b...

Look where we've popped up now! I wrote a story titled "Birdfeeder" that made its way into the Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 anthology... And now Applause Books has decided to reprint the piece in their uber-anthology of super-monologues: Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays Vol 1. T...

Just in time for Christmas, Amazing Spider-Man #700.4 has hit the shelves! It's not too late to tell Santa you want one stuffed in your stocking... Unless you go to Richmond Comix, where I just bought pretty much their entire stock. Sorry about that.

The Pumpkin Pie Show: BOOGEDY BOO officially wrapped up last night. Three weeks, nine performances and a lot of new faces in the audience. This was our (more or less) 15th year of performing the Pumpkin Pie Show. Fifteen years. We. Are. Old. The reviews for this year's show were great. Thumbs up all...

Want to hear a double-bill of weird kid radio plays? For FREE? Glass Eye Pix is streaming the amazing Jt Petty's JOHNNY BOY along with my own LIKE FATHER LIKE SON all week long. Should be good for a few nightmares... Head over to Tales HQ and get listening: http://bit.ly/1cpKaEl

I got my first review from Ain’t It Cool News for my Tales from Beyond the Pale radio play “Like Father, Like Son” and it’s a big ol’ thumbs up! “…A story that would have made H.G. Lewis proud. …A gritty and dire story that most likelywill churn your stomach and make you twist with unease. …Fantast...

Marvel announced their December solicitations today (as in just now), which means I can finally announce that I've got a story in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! I wrote for Amazing Spider-Man! My story, "12 O'Clock High" is a loving homage to my favorite 80's movies of all time. I'll see if you can guess whic...

Glass Eye Pix, the maverick production company responsible for a vast slate of captivating independent genre movies including THE LAST WINTER, I SELL THE DEAD, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, STAKE LAND and THE INNKEEPERS, has announced the wide release of the highly anticipated second season of their senso...

A little love for Horse Trade, home of the Pumpkin Pie Show for 15 years, popped up online. I was interviewed by the Theatre Development Fund to talk about our longstanding relationship and how we're aiming for 20 more... Here's what TDF has to say: "From sword swallowers to burlesque dancers to ...

Gregg Mozgala and his new theater company The Apothetae grab the spotlight in The New York Times' Metropolitan section today. For their first production, Gregg commissioned me to adapt the classic Lon Chaney silent flick "The Penalty" for the stage, which sadly closed last night. But just as the pos...

This is officially the coolest thing ever. Artist Steven Weinberg interviewed me for his series "Five Questions, One Drawing" at the ever-awesome website Brooklyn Based. You can read the interview here: http://bit.ly/12Nku2p Check out that amazing drawing! Steven: It's official. You are the coolest...

I got the talk show treatment on "Author Feast," hosted by S. Luke Abaffy. AF is an "...online show where writers of diverse backgrounds and writing styles talk about their work and the publishing industry." Watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/11O43hl Author Feast's goal is "to spread pragmati...

The Apothetae's production of my new musical THE PENALTY, with music and lyrics by Obie-winner Robert M. Johanson, opens up next week. I did this video interview with Vaudevisuals that you can watch here: http://bit.ly/1bcss4v The Villager had some nice things to say about me and the show here: htt...

The Brooklyn Rail invited me to interview with of my personal heroes, playwright and all around great guy Mac Rogers. Mac has a new play opening up at The Secret Theater this summer and you better believe I'll be in the front row. Read the interview here: http://bit.ly/14bMFHj

Chiller presents the next installment in its Chilling Visions anthology film series, Chilling Visions: 5 States of Fear. The film comprises five shorts inspired by five basic human fears, with each short set in a specific location across five different U.S. states. The five short films are: - Ego De...

We have a book trailer! We have a boooooook trailer! Filmmakers Hugo Perez and Noah Greenberg put together an uh-mazing mini-movie masterpiece for my new novel HOMEROOM HEADHUNTERS. Want to see it? Click on over to Youtube: http://bit.ly/10cDUh8 And the award for Best Book Trailer goes to...

I'll be performing at The Overlook Hotel. The one and only hotel from The Shining. You heard me right. The 1st Annual Stanley Film Festival is taking place in the hotel that inspired Stephen King to pen his classic novel. I can't believe this is happening, but I've hit the performance/literary/cine...

I just got back from a guest stint at Rutgers University’s Creative Writing: MIddle Grade & YA Fiction workshop. Don’t believe me? Here -- I have photographic evidence: So this marks the second time I’ve braved cracking open the book in front of a live audience and reading from it. I was petrified....

Look what came in the mail! The first copy of HOMEROOM HEADHUNTERS just arrived and it is a thing of hardback beauty. This week marked the first time ever — ever! — that I read from HOMEROOM HEADHUNTERS in front of a captive audience (captive in the sense that they had been kidnapped). The folks ...

I've been dreading what Kirkus might say about my new novel. All my fears evaporated like a vampire at dawn when I read: "An engaging, over-the-top tale with much to say about how schools treat individuals and outsiders." First review's a rave. Please let this be a trend. Click here to read the ful...