What was your first job as a journalist?
Critic for Icons of Fright, before becoming the editor in chief for over five years
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
Bite size news
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
None
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To tell people about art and culture, to enrich their experiences with them
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Apple products.
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
John Carpenter
Why did you become a journalist?
My love for the written word and horror films
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Nope
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
My experience with horror and religion for Dread Central
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Keep your eye on the work and not on the popularity game
When's the best time to pitch you?
Any time.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Interviewing John Carpenter and Joe Hill about comic books
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
A producer of a film asking me to let him ghost write a review for his own movies. Eesh.
What's your favorite drink?
Dr Pepper
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Making music
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Rue Morgue
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That I’m a weirdo. I’m actually worse
