My new book will be released on February 4th. In this one, Fanny is recruited by sirens, inviting her to attend a siren training camp on the mysterious Feather Island. Her friends beg her not to go, because sirens are bad people who murder men at sea. But Fanny really...

Come to the book signing for Blood Fiction 3! It’s October 13th, 2:00, at The Book Carnival in Orange. There will be snacks. I’ll sign your book or forehead or whatever.

Hello!I wrote a short story about Geppetto, and why he REALLY carved Pinocchio out of wood. It’s now available in Blood Fiction 3, an Anthology. Check it out!  ...

Check out my first published poem, in this issue of The Pink Hydra.https://www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/0101202407/1-1.pdf#page78

Hello! I will be doing a reading from my latest book, Fanny Fitzpatrick and the Brother Problem, on July 2nd, at 6pm, at Altadena Library, main branch. There will be other writers there, and I will have some books to tell. Hope to see you there!

My short story, “Pete and Steve” is featured in this anthology. My story is about a grumpy old hermit whose life is disrupted when a feral boy shows up on his doorstep.   https://www.amazon.com/Bigfoot-Country-Alex-McGilvery-ebook/dp/B0D1NHPYH7

My short story, “A Biting Clown” is now featured on Does it Have Pockets. It’s a story about a clown who is sent to clown rehab for his inappropriate clowning. I hope you like it! Here’s a link.https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/dana-hammer

My long short play will be having a run in Hollywood, as part of this show. It’s about a woman with body identity integrity disorder whose mission in life is to have her foot removed. So she finds a disgraced surgeon and tries to convince him to cut it off. Get your...

My short story, “Playground” is featured in this anthology. Check it out! https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/oluwale-now-anthology-poetry-prose-and-artwork-responding-story-david-oluwale

Hello!The sequel to My Best Friend Athena will be released on February 6, 2024! Here is a link to an ARC if you or your kids would like to read it early and post a review. I hope you enjoy it!https://booksirens.com/book/BBD0LKP/GOGY65K

Hello!Come see me at OC Children’s Book Festival at Orange Coast College, 9:30 - 4:00, October 1st. I’ll have a booth there, and copies of My Best Friend Athena for sale.

My Best Friend Athena is a runner up!http://www.sanfranciscobookfestival.com/winners_2023.htm

Hey, check out my short story in this awesome horror anthology. My story is called ”Snakes” and it’s about a little boy who lives with his abusive bedridden mother…until he gets bitten by a snake and discovers a new power that will change...

Come see my short play, “The Neverending Karate Story”. This will be an evening of short plays, inspired by 1980s films.  Brickhouse Theatre, Hollywood, this weekend.

Here is a link to a copy of my screenplay, published by Dizzy Emu. It’s about three men who plan a heist to kidnap a woolly mammoth. Dark comedy.https://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Screenplay-Dana-Hammer/dp/B0BYBFJ9KV

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Hello!My middle grade fantasy novel, My Best Friend Athena, will be released February 7th, 2023, by Cinnabar Moth! If you’d like to read and review an advance copy, here is a link.https://booksirens.com/book/CLTIKRK/SW3Y85N

My play has been published in this anthology. Check it out!https://www.lulu.com/shop/som/contemporary-one-act-plays-volume-5/paperback/product-zg9rvp.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Come here to see me talk about writing! Tickets are $25 for SCWA members, and $35 for general public. I will probably  be sober.   ...

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My short story, “Meteorite” is featured in this new anthology, along with stories by some phenomenal authors who are not me. Here is a link to purchase it — https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Fiction-If-Bleeds-Reads-ebook/dp/B0B86TTV82

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he Cannibal’s Guide to Fasting is now available for preorder, and you should preorder it immediately. It’s got viral cannibalism, genius tattooed bodybuilders, cannibal rights activists, romance, kidnapping, sketchy rehab centers, and plenty of...

A few years ago, I wrote a short story called “Mowbot”, which was published in the Kill Switch anthology. I was contacted by Horror Addicts.net, and they want to feature it on their show!Check it out — September 2022!http://horroraddicts.net/

My short play, “Chat Noir” will have a three night run in North Hollywood in May. I was given a location (a park), a genre (film noir), three actors, a director, and a bag of props (flowers, lightsaber, viking drinking horn, flashlight) and I constructed a play using...

I submitted a play to Festival de la Bete Noire, in Montreal. It’s called I Live Here Now, and it’s a horror one-act about a man whose night is interrupted when a young lady enters his home and refuses to leave — she lives there now.Anyway, after being accepted, I...

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My one-act, Under the Bed, will be performed at Newport Theatre Arts Center at 8pm, July 31st. Come see it, if you’re in the area!

Guess what? I got a book deal, as you might have gathered from the title of this post. I’ve just signed with Cinnabar Moth Publishing, and my novel, The Cannibal’s Guide to Fasting, will be coming to you in 2022! I’m super excited for this, and you should be too,...

I’m so excited to see Red Wings taking off. This movie is gonna be so, so good, you guys.https://www.pophorror.com/women-in-film-and-television-vancouvers-from-our-dark-side-contest-announces-five-selected-projects

Here is a link to purchase issue #14 of Stonecoast Review - you can read my one-act, “The Date” in it! https://kellysbookstogo.com/stonecoast-review/

There was a time in my life when I loved to cook. I loved learning about exciting new spices and recipes and trying them out in my tiny kitchen, in my 400 square foot apartment. I collected recipes from everywhere — boxes, books, packages I read quickly in grocery...

A young homeless man’s life is radically changed when he becomes the Devil’s errand boy.

Check out my one-act!https://youtu.be/mXRlcfA88XU

It irritates the shit out of me in movies and TV shows when the new kid arrives at the new place and is immediately embraced by a group of friends, and now they are all ride-or-die besties.Like, I get that it would slow down the plot considerably to have the new kid...

Between Your Wife and Me I am in love with a married man. That is my tragedy. I love him with a deep and desperate passion that rules me. I want to own his heart and mind and soul. I want to rip the heart out of his body and caress it with my my small hands, feeling...

Here’s a short story for you. It’s my imagining of how it went the first time a person tried to ride a horse. The Horseman Jalk was pleased as he looked up at the puffy white clouds. Those kinds of big, billowy clouds, like overgrown sheep, meant that there would not...

Last year, my sister and her kids came to visit on Easter. I was super excited, because cousins spending Easter together is wholesome as fuck. However, I was dealing with extreme nausea and vomiting, coupled with fairly debilitating lupus symptoms at the time, so I...

My new book will be released on February 4th. In this one, Fanny is recruited by sirens, inviting her to attend a siren training camp on the mysterious Feather Island. Her friends beg her not to go, because sirens are bad people who murder men at sea. But Fanny really...

Come to the book signing for Blood Fiction 3! It’s October 13th, 2:00, at The Book Carnival in Orange. There will be snacks. I’ll sign your book or forehead or whatever.

Hello!I wrote a short story about Geppetto, and why he REALLY carved Pinocchio out of wood. It’s now available in Blood Fiction 3, an Anthology. Check it out!  ...