thrillers!
Essays about reading and writing!
Upcoming Appearances!
Coming soon from New Legend! Jukebox Thrillers: Solid Hits of the '80s is a totally awesome anthology of short stories by top talents inspired by top tunes from the 1980's. You may be familiar with the songs and even the videos, but you've never seen them like this! Check out this wickedly epic playlist:
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Jim Beard “One Thing Leads to Another”
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Jayme Lynn Blaschke “The Old Man Down the Road"
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Sara T. Bond "Don't You (Forget About Me)"
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John C. Bruening "Only the Lonely"
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Darin M. Bush "Cult of Personality"
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Ryan Cadaver & Nicole Ghouled Cadaver "No Easy Way Out"
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Christopher Collins "Electric Avenue"
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A.R. Cook "Danger Zone"
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Joe Crowe "Walk Like an Egyptian"
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Keith R.A. DeCandido "Road to Nowhere"
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Kevin Eldridge "Ride Like the Wind"
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Michael Falkner "Stand"
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Kelley M. Frank "Automatic"
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Nicole Givens Kurtz "Wrapped Around Your Finger"
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Michael A. Gordon “Centerfold”
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Justin Gray “Valley Girl”
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Darrell Z. Grizzle “Time After Time”
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Joe Heath “Ghost Town”
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Robert Jeffrey II "If This World Were Mine"
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Bernadette Johnson “Every Breath You Take”
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Dan Jolley “Somebody’s Watching Me”
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Darin Kennedy “Only Time Will Tell”
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Mike Lyons “Money for Nothing”
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Violette L. Meier “Nasty Girl”
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Adam Messer “Hungry Like the Wolf”
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J.R. Mounts “Round and Round”
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Bobby Nash “Running Down a Dream”
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Jessica Nettles “Major Tom (Coming Home)”
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Kelly Oechslin “Jessie’s Girl”
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Mary Ogle “I Ran (So Far Away)”
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James Palmer “99 Red Balloons”
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Ashley Marie Pauls “Holding Out for a Hero”
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Alan J. Porter “Two Tribes”
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Sarah J. Sover “Careless Whisper”
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Sean Taylor “Sugar Walls”
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Vincent EM Thorn “The Number of the Beast”
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Kelly Young-Silverman “In the Air Tonight”
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Ricky Zero “Where the Streets Have No Name”
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and more!!!
Jukebox Thrillers is scheduled to be released in early 2026. More details coming soon!
In the meantime, enjoy this music video playlist.
CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS
My Barbaric Yawp: More Essays on Writing and Reading
In this follow-up to Giddy and Euphoric: Essays on Reading, Writing, and Ray Bradbury, Sean Taylor continues his fascination with the nuts and bolts of the writer's life.
Essays will include:
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Introduction by October Santerelli
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The Sweaty-Toothed Madman: Reading Is Becoming; Writing Is Telling Who We Are
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The Great White Savior (Or Why It's Way Past Time To Retire Tarzan, Sheena, and The Last Samurai)
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Visceral Writing + Nostalgia = Effective Writing Every Time
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Envy and Imitation
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Help! I'm Stumped and I Don't Know What To Write!
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15 Action/Adventure Tropes That Need To Die a Painful Death
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This Week's Theme Is, Well, Theme
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Bono and Flannery: Harder to Believe Than Go Crazy Tonight
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What I Learned from Dead People (Mostly)
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Do, Do, Do, Da, Da, Da: The Day The Police Taught Me About Character Dialog
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The Centre Is Not Central—Normal Heroes Among Dragons
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The Description Toolbox: 3 Tools Every Writer Needs
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Close to the Vest—Embracing the Mystery in Your Fiction
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Writing for Comics—A Basic Primer for Newbs
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O' Captain, My Captain: Taming the Writers' Group Monsters
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35 Books (Almost) Everybody Should Read
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My Backstory Story
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The ABC (Plots) of Ongoing Storytelling
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Wrote Rage
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Hard to Market, But It's Okay
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Paying Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain, or Ruining the Magic Trick for All the Right Reasons
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Tightening the Tension
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Creating Religion in Your Stories
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Geek Culture: Leading the Way AND Pulling Us Back?!
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The Editing Onion
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My Diversity Soapbox (Or Don't You Throw That "Woke" Shade at Me)
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It’s the End of the Literary World As We Know It (But Don’t Be Afraid—It’s a Good Thing)
CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS
Movie Reviews for Writers: 75 Movies About Writers and What You Can Learn from Them
Movies matter. As long as movies are about people—even people like Marvin the Manic Depressive Robot or a monster like the one created by Victor Frankenstein—they will matter. Movies, like books and radio dramas and tales around the fireplace or campfire, introduce to people, some like us, some vastly different, some good, some bad, and some in those wonderful shades between the two (my favorite people, hands down).
—From the Introduction
Movies include:
1. A Fantastic Fear of Everything
2. House
3. Paris When It Sizzles
4. Stories We Tell
5. An American Ghost Story
6. Kill Your Darlings
7. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and
Only I Have the Key
8. Tatami
9. The Haunting of M.R. James
10. The Adventures of Anais Nin
11. Playhouse
12. They Live Inside Us
13. Authors Anonymous
14. Peripheral
15. The Nesting
16. Dead Poets Society
17. Shadowlands
18. Howling IV
19. Finding Forrester
20. Valerie on the Stairs
21. The Owl and the Pussycat
22. Scare Me
23. Wodehouse in Exile
24. The Shining
25. The Eclipse
26. Secret Window
27. The Haunted Hotel
28. Cold Ones
29. The Bat
30. Tenebrae
31. Grace
32. The Girl in the Book
33. Nightbooks
34. Shortcut to Happiness
35. Agatha and the Truth of Murder
36. Hush
37. The Darkness
38. Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show
39. In the Mouth of Madness
40. Throw Momma from the Train
41. Shirley
42. The Black Press—Soldiers Without
Swords
43. Flannery
44. Conjuring Spirit
45. I Spit on Your Grave
46. 1408
47. Christmas in Connecticut
48. Amuck
49. Alegoria
50. You Are My Vampire
51. The House Across the Lake
52. Half Light
53. The Medusa Touch
54. Velvet
55. Skin Deep
56. Horrors of the Black Museum
57. Salem’s Lot
58. Dirty Work
59. She Makes Comics
60. Another Man’s Poison
61. Writer’s Retreat
62. Ghost Land
63. Kiss of the Damned
64. Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark
65. Fantastic Britain
66. Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane
67. House of Long Shadows
68. The Norliss Tapes
69. Snowed Under
70. If You Believe
71. Killer Book Club
72. Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
73. The House of Marsh Road
74. The World According to Garp
75. Trumbo
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