Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen. In THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION the voices are legion, and the gaps between their testimonies drag us closer to understanding the darkly beating heart of all our, ephemeral, transfixing dreams. Dark, subtle, horrifically funny.

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.