Three books published in the past calendar year...so in 2013 I'm slowing things down, releasing only one title, a collection of short stories called EXCEPTIONS & DECEPTIONS.
Watch for it around June 1st.
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Cliff's Latest Blogs
May.08.2013 - 10:12 am
Well, it was inevitable.
I don't have many heroes but Ray Harryhausen was definitely one of them. I grew up on his films and never got over the impact they had on my young,...
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Apr.23.2013 - 8:14 am
I read a fascinating article on the CBC News page today, its author Patrick Brown.
Brown is an old hand in the Far East; he's even fluent in Mandarin Chinese. While the West may...
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Apr.20.2013 - 9:38 am
Finally got around to posting a new tale, "The 1001st Night", on my Scribd page.
It's been awhile since I've added a story to the site and that's negligent of me. In the time I've...
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Apr.07.2013 - 6:55 am
Hard, these days, to maintain the illusion that finishing my new short story collection is important or critical or matters in the slightest.
Not after hearing the terrible news...
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Writing
Short Story:
"Subsidence"
Short Story:
"Man Disassembling" (Short Fiction)
Short Story:
"Eyes in the Sky" (excerpt from the novelette)
Published Reviews
Mar.30.1997
Published by Strange Adventures (U.K.)
"At last Canada has found a literary equivalent to David Cronenberg."
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About Cliff
I've been a professional author for more than 25 years and an independent publisher since 1990, when my first book, Sex & Other Acts of the Imagination, was released through an imprint my wife and I created. That little publishing concern, which...
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Cliff’s Favorite Books
Ah, now this is a tough one. "Favorite" books or "best" books? Because that's two entirely different things... Still, here are a few of the ones that have...
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