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Updates: November 2021

Updates on all the happenings at Sketching Details for November 2021.

Haunted: Available Now

Haunted (A Slip Story), my interactive weird fiction collection game, is available to purchase now on itch.io [https://sketchingdetails.itch.io/haunted] with the original soundtrack and companion short story collection.

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The Results of a Week Off

I took a week off to take care of myself for once. Here’s what happened.

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Announcing SD Media Digest

Hey everyone. I’m really excited to announce a new quarterly publication from Sketching Details.

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Thank You

I just wanted to come on and thank you all for the the support the past few weeks. The Take Out & Other Stories: A Collection of Weird Fiction relaunch has gone better than I expected. Many of you took the time to enter the giveaway and interact with my

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Spookier Times Episode 11: Writing Genre Fiction & Take Out

Enter the giveaway.

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Coming Soon: Take Out & Other Stories: The Audiobook

Take Out & Other Stories: A Collection of Weird Fiction is my debut short story collection from 2013. I’ve felt guilty for not releasing an audiobook version for a very long time, and I have finally rectified that mistake.

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My ISP Nightmare with Optimum Online

My upload got shut off with no warning on Friday morning and so far five and counting customer service representatives/technicians have not been able to fix it. Their solution is to blame me or say “they’ll make a not of it.”

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#31Days: A Collection of Horror Essays Vol. 1

#31Days challenge is to watch a different horror film or TV show every day for the month of October. In his debut collection of non-fiction essays and reviews, professional media critic Robert J Gannon shares 65 original essays and reviews of horror media

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Announcing Tick: A Short Musical

Introducing Tick: A Short Musical. This is an original short horror musical inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” It’s actually part of a longer anthology horror musical called The Sublime Method that I am trying to make available as soon as I can.

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Announcing: Spookier Times

Introducing Spookier Times. This is a new biweekly podcast about everything horror, Gothic, and weird fiction across media. I’m incredibly proud of the project and the opportunities it affords in media criticism.

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The Future of Sketchy Details

My Dear Readers, I will, once again, apologize for my absence on this site. Between my musical theater teaching commitments and my anxiety being one hell of a liar, I have been unable to allocate time and energy to writing, period. I love what I do at Sketchy Details and

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FYI

I've been absent here for a while. I do apologize for that. I will get back to posting regularly soon. It's been a very difficult few weeks with my anxiety and even some recurrence of depression symptoms due to theater work. I think I'm

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Updates for February

I would like to start by apologizing for my absence from a public online presence. My anxiety has been very bad the past few weeks and everything is just starting to turn around again. Not writing here and at Man, I Love Films like I'm scheduled to doesn&

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Updates: Best of the Year Block

Hey all, It's taking me longer than usual to get through reviews for a good stack of films right now. I'm also waist deep in Game of the Year contenders and trying to parse out the best medium to tackle reviews of those. I'm

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Updates and Sundry

Radio silence is ending soon. Last week, I was auditioning for a concert production of Parade. I got cast. I have rehearsals 2-3 nights a week until the show goes off in August. I'm excited. This week, I've been auditioning children for camp productions of Beauty

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Animated Horror from Around the World @ ConnectiCon

I am very excited to announce that my brand new panel, Animated Horror from Around the World, will be debuting at ConnectiCon next month. This is an idea I've been developing for years and it's finally going to happen. Here's the full description: While

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Updates and Such

Sorry for the absence again. I'm busy. My schedule never slowed down like it usually does after months of work on a musical and now I'm at the school just as much test proctoring as I was for ADing and Music Directing. I also have a

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Nightmare Fuel

I'm alive. I'm at the tail end of a very long tech period on The Drowsy Chaperone and have been doing crazy things like assembly-lining monkey masks for dancers. This is why I didn't sleep last night. Not that I was still making them.

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Head's Up: YouTube Channel Coming Back

So, I've been inconsistent at best, absent at worst, from my YouTube channel. I struggled to find a balance between all the content I wanted to create, was paid to create, and chose to create among my many professional lives. Now, my schedule is in a much better

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ETC: Trip Mix by Robert Gannon

Good news, everyone. I published a new short story on Amazon. It's called "ETC: Trip Mix" and it's paranoid psychological horror. Technically, it's a short story I started writing a few years ago when my OCD was the absolute worst. It was

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Lights Off by Robert Gannon

I published a new psychological horror story today. It's available through Amazon right now for $.99. Dennis knew he should have taken the Christmas lights down sooner. Now, facing a fine from the HOA, he has no choice but to climb the roof and take them down on

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Sketchy Details Updates

April is almost over and I've held up to my goal of at least one post a day, even during the stressful tech/performance week of Funny Girl. Now things are getting real. Next week, Sketchy Details @YouTube returns with a new schedule. I'll be announcing

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Sketchy Details @YouTube Hiatus

It's tech leading into dress leading into performances on the show I've been working on since December. I don't have time to cover all my columns and run Sketchy Details and get to rehearsals/shows, so the YouTube channel's on a break.