Jack Campbell Jr.

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  • Review: Benjamin Percy’s Red Moon

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    Red Moon: A Novel by Benjamin Percy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Benjamin Percy is a fantastic, talented writer. His prose is tight and descriptive. He’s got great imagery and you never question his characters’ motivations. I enjoyed this novel. It has a weight to it that we are sometimes missing in the horror…

  • Questing with Friends

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    This weekend, my girlfriend and I are attending Conquest 44 in Kansas City. This is my second Conquest and my girlfriend’s third. It is an interesting convention for me, because the crowd is largely Fantasy and Science Fiction. Horror writers are sort of the unspoken minority, both on the panels and in the dealer room.…

  • “Victor’s Indifference” now available in the May 2013 print edition of The Rusty Nail

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    The May 2013 print edition of The Rusty Nail is now available. My flash fiction piece “Victor’s Indifference” appears inside. Pick up your copy at Amazon.com by clicking the link below. The Rusty Nail, May 2013

  • “Hatched” is now available in Dark Eclipse #21

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    My flash fiction story “Hatched” appears in issue twenty-one of the horror e-magazine Dark Eclipse from Dark Moon Books. You can get your own copy on Kindle at Amazon for only $1.99. It’s a short, simple story, but I am proud of it. Be sure to check it out. Dark Eclipse #21 – The Dark…

  • The Brave New Publishing World and Updates

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    The Brave New Publishing World and Updates After a short hiatus, The Confabulator Cafe has returned. Under the new format, each writer will be contributing something different than his colleagues. This week, I wrote about the literary gatekeepers and other aspects of the changing publishing world. Check it out at The Confabulator Cafe Also, my…

  • There Ain’t No Road Too Long

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    There Ain’t No Road Too Long Everyone has their way to tackle initial revisions. Those early modifications don’t get that baby walking. It’s more like cleaning the thing up moments after birth. Still, rewriting is the most important part of writing, and my philosophy on rewriting is simple. If it’s none done, keep working. Read…

  • Three Rules for Surviving Rejection

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    This week, at The Confabulator Cafe, we were asked how to survive negative critiques and rejections. Read my three rules to remember in dealing with criticism  in “Three Rules for Surviving Rejection” now available at The Confabulator Cafe website. http://www.confabulatorcafe.com/2013/03/three-rules-for-surviving-rejection/

  • Victor’s Indifference, now available at The Rusty Nail

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    One of my oldest short stories is now posted at The Rusty Nail. I wrote it after reading an article about Hurricane Victor and thinking of how disconnected I was, being so far away, reading about it in a paper. Then, I sat down and wrote Victor’s Indifference. I saw it sitting on the computer…

  • The Art of the Critique

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    This week, the Confabulator Cafe was all about critiquing. I shared some advice on what to do and what not to do when you are asked to critique someone’s writing. If you haven’t checked it out, please do. The Art of the Critique I hope everyone is hanging in there in the midwest and northeast.…

  • There is always time to write, right?

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    There is always time to write, right? My weekly contribution to the Confabulator Cafe came in right before posting time. Ironic, since this week’s topic was making time to write. It’s a busy life, right now, especially with two literary theory classes and working fifty hours a week. Still, I got it up there, as…