Jan Stinchcomb

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Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.) janstinchcomb.com

The cover of my novel, VERUSHKA, obscured by a fern. You can still see a blond woman’s face, eyes closed, against a red background.
The sinister, grinning hearse driver (all in black with a black cap and sunglasses) from Burnt Offerings (1976).
A paperback book open to the story “Simon Hangs a Fingerpainting While Happenstance Glows Like Earthshine”
A tabby cat and a deer seem to be having a conversation through a chain-link fence in a garden.
A yellow and black butterfly samples a yellow and pink rose.
Silhouette of an eagle sitting at the top of a tree.
Black cat in profile beside a brick chimney on a gray roof.
Pink, red and orange flowers growing on a hillside.
Bright pink poppy with a yellow center.
A crow in profile sitting on a fence and squawking.
A Northern Filcker on top of a bird house. He has red cheeks, a striking black chest and a polka dot underside.
A bright red-orange ladybug on a green leaf.
Snowdrops (small white bell-shaped flowers) in a garden setting.
Very alert tabby cat tucked inside a wooden birdhouse with blue trim.
A large camellia with dark pink flowers and dark green leaves. It has already begun to drop petals on the fern and the grass beneath it.
Black cat sitting on a deck and glaring. Trees and a house in the background.
Sonoma Coast beach scene. Foamy waves in the background, jagged rocks in the foreground.
Joan Jett, Blondie, David Johansen, and Joey Ramone stand side by side, embodying cool.
Hardcover of She’s Under Here, a memoir by Karen Palmer.
A pile of red, heart-shaped candies on a woman’s palm
A black cat sits behind a rock in a garden setting.
Duckweed growing on a little stream with a log in the background. The duckweed is so thick and green that the water is barely visible.
A couple of eagles pose above their enormous nest.
Majestic Western Red Cedars stand in a park setting.
A dead tree sticks up like a giant post against a blue sky. A bare branch hangs horizontally in front of it, forming a cross.
White, waxy ball-shaped berries growing on a twiggy bush. Also known as snowberries or waxberries.
5 copies of Paranoid Tree Press, Vol. 58, featuring my micro, Gang of Babies. There is a pair of pink and white baby feet against a dark background on the cover.
Waxing supermoon alongside evergreens in a light blue evening sky.
A woman’s small gloved hand holding a giant leaf from a Bigleaf Maple.
A raspberry and blackberry pie against a white background.
A woman leans against a classic yellow Volkswagen Bug. The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay are visible in the background, as seen from the Marin Headlands. The film is Bumblebee (2018).
Sunlight cuts through clouds and hits a large, gray body of water. A house and trees stand in the foreground.
Tabby cat sits on a manuscript divided into sections and places paw on the best one.
The cover of the Poisoned Soup anthology by Wendy Dalrymple and Grace R. Reynolds. Green steam rises from a black cauldron boiling over a fire.
My chapbook, The Blood Trail, and my novel, Verushka.
A tabby cat wearing pearls. She has a crazed expression on her face and is held by a poor writer in a blue button-down shirt.
A giant plastic skeleton appears to be emerging from the soil of a front yard. He is accompanied by other specters.
A pileated woodpecker with red crest, white neck stripe and black body perches against a birdhouse and polishes off the suet.
Majestic black cat in profile sitting on a brown lawn.
A ten year-old Japanese maple stands in the corner of a backyard. Its reddish leaves contrast with the green of the surrounding trees.
A cluster of pink roses growing at the base of a rose bush.
Tabby cat wearing pearls. The shot is of the back of her head and tense body.
Tabby cat with wide open mouth showing all the white teeth.
Tabby cat peers through a cover of green leaves.
A lone gold-turning-brown leaf against a stone wall.
Bette Davis as Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage (1934). She has platinum blond hair, dark circles around her eyes, and will soon die of tuberculosis in a charity ward.
The light from the waxing full moon is reflected in water.
A striped tabby sits like a queen in the middle of a bed of bright pink geraniums.
A fuzzy purple artichoke flower in bloom against a backdrop of green plants.
A handwritten copy of Claire C. Holland’s poem “Laurie” from her collection I Am Not Your Final Girl. The image shows an open notebook on top of a blanket.
A large stone bird and gargoyle stare down at Paris from Notre Dame Cathedral.
A plastic chair in front of a teal, house-shaped bird feeder in the middle of a garden.
The novel VERUSHKA by Jan Stinchcomb features a blond woman against a red background. The book is held up in front of the green leaves of a Japanese maple.
A cluster of small, pale pink flowers emerge from a thorny blackberry bush.
Classic Scooby-Doo situation: the gang and a police officer look at a “ghost” tied up with rope (the villain wearing a sheet).
Episode 12, Season 2 of the cartoon, Kenny the Shark. A shark standing upright and holding a top hat gives a big smile backstage. The caption reads Kenny the Star, written by Jay Martel.
A black cat lies on her back on top of a water meter cover. Her paws are in the air, her mouth is open, and her eyes are wild.
Nearly full moon visible through trees.
Short story collection Magic Can’t Save Us by Josh Denslow is on a garden table propped up against a planter filled with flowers.
An artichoke plant with several artichokes, still closed, on the branches. A house is in the background.