"You think really weird shit."
Spousal Unit, over and over.
"Seeing you on the other side of the desk if I was having a psych evaluation is my second worst nightmare."
Scott Nicholson, who is indirectly responsible for this webpage as he told me that I was the last writer in America without one.
"I understand that as an artist it is necessary to extrapulate from the things or creatures in your life by the way my next album is going to be called "mother....." . whatcha think?"
My son, after reading "Mother Nature" in Gothic.net
"That said, you do evoke feelings of protectiveness in me (and
in other people). Part of that is because you are petite ... part of that is
because you are eccentric, and we all know how we normal people love our eccentrics
and try to protect them from the less-worldly mundanes. I could forgive a non-writer
(thereby being unable to express his/her feelings adequately) describing you
as "cute" because it DOES infer a need for protection, from getting
lost, from getting stepped on, from getting eaten, from walking into walls,
from drinking too much, etc"
Julie Anne Parks, author of Storytellers
"Part of your problem is you've gotten so incredibly good at capturing the essential horror of being alive that when you suddenly whip out your non-naturalistic horror conceit, it's always somehow less impressive.It's like watching a production of End Game by Beckett in which someone in a rubber Frankenstein mask runs out at the end and slaughters everyone. The real horror is your character's lives, compared to which a supernatural incursion would be a picnic."
"I really really liked 'Beggars in Bethlehem' as well. It has the same quality as the best of your writing...hilarious, dead-on witty, and yet haunting and somewhat painful as well. I'm extremely jealous of that, I'll have you know. You're on my list for shamanistic brain-sucking."
Seth Lindberg, editor of Gothic Net
"You know what's funny? On Friday night, Geoff Cooper and I were talking on the phone, and discussing who NEEDS to have a collection published of their work, i.e. one that we would spend money on. We both agreed, top of the list, was YOU. So ya think we'll spend money on the novel? HELL YES!"
Brian Keene, author of The Rising
"Layla is the most richly textured protagonist to appear in horror fiction this year. Goldberg puts her experience in the mental health field to full use, constructing Layla’s conflicted psyche with a master’s touch. She paints an authentic portrait of Charlotte and the quirky characters that populate it. Her subversion of the gothic novel’s conventions is right on the money. The supernatural isn’t explained away, but serves as an integral counterpoint to the stark reality of modern life."
"Goldberg creates an intriguing plot, packed with very unusual characters and circumstances"
The Bookwatch
Elizabeth Platt – Villains and Monsters
Christine Filipak – Dark Realms Magazine
'"Skating on the Edge is an incredibly strange book, in a good way. It's partly quest-fantasy, partly Bohemian meander, partly Gen-X-angst-session, partly comedy, partly romance, and lots of other things as well."
Tim Pratt - Locus magazine review
"Only one person instructed Louis Maistros to 'kiss my ass', that person being d.g.k. goldberg who was mightily offended by Maistros' recent mean-spirited Dale Earnhardt article (the only person I know of who even cared, in fact). She explained: 'NASCAR is the one true sport. God's sport'. I'm very, very sorry. I honestly didn't know that. Had I known, I would NEVER have fucked with God's sport. Really and truly. Hail Mary, full of grace, please don't hurt me, Lord; yada yada"
from TOP TEN UNEXPECTED REVELATIONS AT WHC 2002 By Louis Maistros in Jobs in Hell
Tim Pratt - Locus magazine review
"Only one person instructed Louis Maistros to 'kiss my ass', that person being d.g.k. goldberg who was mightily offended by Maistros' recent mean-spirited Dale Earnhardt article (the only person I know of who even cared, in fact). She explained: 'NASCAR is the one true sport. God's sport'. I'm very, very sorry. I honestly didn't know that. Had I known, I would NEVER have fucked with God's sport. Really and truly. Hail Mary, full of grace, please don't hurt me, Lord; yada yada"
from TOP TEN UNEXPECTED REVELATIONS AT WHC 2002 By Louis Maistros in Jobs in Hell
"d.g.k. goldberg's "Last Exit to Darlington" is a deliberately anti-erotic story, like so much of the noir fiction which it very successfully emulates. A good-time girl gets picked up by a fairly overt sexually psychopathic serial killer and, while she is prepared, even eager, in a way to add herself to his list of victims in that she will submit to all the sexual humiliations he demands of her, she is not prepared to let the evening end in his desired climax of her slaughter. This is quite a powerful tale, and would belong creditably in any collection of modern noir."
From a review at Infinity Plus of the anthology Decadence edited by Monica J. O'Rourke
"I always welcome a pleasant surprise, and d.g.k. Goldberg's novel Doomed To Repeat It provided one.. . . I just assumed this was going to be a standard issue dark fantasy romance, with emphasis on romance. I will admit to being quite mistaken."
"So the portentously titled Doomed To Repeat It is indeed a romance in several senses, but it's a dark-hued, seriously considered one."
Quotes from Edward Bryant's review of Doomed To Repeat It in Locus.
Scott Nicholson - Stoker Finalist for his first novel The Red Church
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