I've published over forty novels and five collections of short stories. I write original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and my articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. I've won the Bram Stoker Award, the HWA’s Mentor of the Year Award, been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award, my fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year, and I've had three stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. I'm also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.