"Loose Thoughts on a Light Rail"

This blog is supposed to be dedicated to my writing process, my writing progress, my writing success, etc.-ess, but I've not posted much in terms of actual writing. Let's change that.

In 2008, the online publication The Harrow: Original Works of Fantasy and Horror published my short story "Loose Thoughts on a Light Rail" in Volume 11, Number 5. You can find it at their website right . . . here.

Cannot live on zombie movies alone?

So far, this blog has been less about my actual writing projects and more about the behind-the-scenes decision-making and questioning about my writing projects, and this post isn't going to be any different.

Man cannot live on zombie movies alone. I know . . . I know . . . Strange thing for the producer of Mail Order Zombie to say, eh?

Here's the thing - I've got a handful of other "geek loves." Non-zombie horror movies. Star Trek. Indiana Jones. Robert E. Howard. Lovecraft. Comic books. I'm a little all over the map when it comes to some of this stuff.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that . . . far from it. Sure, sometimes it's hard to blend Captain Kirk with Captain Rhodes, but I keep it all fairly compartmentalized in my head.

Where it does start to become a stumbling block is when start putting pen to paper.

I'm not a known commodity. I don't have a well-known brand. So is it wise to throw something like a dark fantasy story into the mix while working toward building a horror/zombie brand? A superhero story (of all things)? At what point is it okay to diversify my output?

I don't have an answer to that. Do you?