Walt's Corner

My short review for Jeff Strand’s Twentieth Anniversary Screening.

Few authors hold enough power over me to get me to stop reading a book, especially at 90% finished, just to start another book. Jeff Strand is one of them authors. Bloodsucker County was released earlier this week, forcing me to slap a bookmark in Interview with the Devil: Epoch for the time being. Sadly, I finished Bloodsucker County within a few days. I’m sad because I was hoping to spend at least a couple weeks within the apocryphal world of Strand’s latest book.

Never one to come up short in the mini-story department, Jeff Strand delivers in spades in his latest collection of short stories, Snuggling the Grotesque. Anyone who subscribes to his newsletter will be familiar with his ability to write a short story based on anything, but I’d call those shortER stories, or maybe micro-stories. This […]

Reading another book by Jeff Strand is always a pleasure and will certainly interrupt the old “To Be Read” queue like no other. Well, like no others. Plural. King. Konrath. Strand. Crouch. These are my favorite authors and will always take precedence. Strand’s latest tale weaves together feels of the classic Devil Doll (1964), Amelia […]

I dive into the greasy underworld of books/ebooks publishing and get answers straight from the proverbial horses’ mouths – M.L. Rayner, Jeff Strand, and Dan Moren. What’s the difference in the authors’ pocketbook when it comes to outright purchasing, renting, or getting that phat discount?