My first book, Sandcastle and Other Stories, was published by Green Darner Press—please check out the beautiful paperback they created; it’s perfect for all readers from your literary hound to suspense junkies, thriller chillers, New Yorker types, down to high school short story lovers—and the responses I received over the past two years were energizing…
First off: Doctor Sleep is not scary. It’s pure horror story though, reaching for a dreadful atmosphere that builds with intensity as the characters stumble and try not to fall. Very few horror novels are actually scary so I don’t judge them on this basis alone. Is the writing at a high level? Yes. In…
Well, this curious day has finally arrived: my second publication, The Conversationalist, a literary suspense eNovella, was published this very morning by Green Darner Press. The Conversationalist is a tale of yearning, a family struggle, a secret, attraction denied, and the singular dating style of a resident of Fidalgo Island with the name of Patrick.…
Jacob Buckenmeyer read and reviewed The Conversationalist in this week’s Anacortes American . . . Here is a copy of the review for you to read. I was floored by his take on this suspense story. Author’s novella is based in Anacortes Posted by Jacob Buckenmeyer / June 26, 2013 “Anacortes author Justin Bog, who…
Labels always make me think of childhood, and coloring books, where a parent or a kindergarten teacher would say: don’t color outside the lines. That’s what they’re there for, to guide you, to teach you (both the lines and the teachers pointing to them). Maybe it’s my Ukrainian upbringing, mixed with a ton of Jersey…