Year: 2008

Covenant comes out Tuesday!

And so it begins! I’ve spent the past few months getting ready and now it’s really, finally here. The countdown clock on my website currently reads just 2 days ’til the mass market debut of Covenant (and actually, a few folks already have copies, since Amazon.com and the Leisure Book Club already started shipping). Last week I relaunched my website, www.johneverson.com, and this week, I’ll begin the crazy “tour” schedule I’ve been building all summer to promote Covenant.…

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Early reviews of COVENANT

A FEW WEEKS AGO,  the ARCs (advanced reader copies) of Covenant were mailed to reviewers (hey – if you got one, you can say you received the ARC of the COVENANT!!!) I’m happy to say that the first early reviews are coming in! Horror Fiction Review wrote that “COVENANT won a Bram Stoker Award in 2004 and it’s easy to see why: Everson’s writing is fast paced, the several characters are very believable (which in…

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Ribfest redux and cool Claymation

WELL, DESPITE A month-long countdown on my website, this year’s Naperville Ribfest didn’t go down quite as planned (for me) last weekend. I’d hoped to go 3 or possibly all 4 of the days of the fest but… my son was sick with a headcold the first half of the weekend, and I spent a day and a half picking up (took 3 trips to cram it into an SUV!) and putting together a new patio…

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A bug in the current

LAST WEEK, I promised that I’d post a photo of my “death defying drop” while enjoying the water parks of the Wisconsin Dells. Sadly, when I looked at the couple of pictures on the camera of me on the slide this week… they don’t look like much (you can click on the picture to see a slightly larger version). That blip on the red slide is me (I did that one twice!). I did the…

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Death Defying Drop

BACK FROM THE Wisconsin Dells today… and for the first time in 42 years, I finally got on a water slide (as a rollercoaster afficionado, that’s like, long overdue!!!) I haven’t looked at the pix we took, but potentially, a death defying drop photo is coming soon. I just sent out the first edition of my new e-newsletter… if you didn’t get a copy, email me at john@johneverson.com, or sign up at www.johneverson.com/newsletter/ and I’ll…

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From a Massacre to a Fisherman’s Wharf

IT’S BEEN SOMETHING of a whirlwind week for me – hard to believe that a week ago I was just getting home from the Milwaukee Massacre at the Wisconsin State Fair Park grounds. That’s because just a couple days later I hopped a plane for San Francisco for a business trip, and tomorrow we’ll be driving a few hours north to take my son to the Wisconsin Dells for the first time (Actually, it’s my…

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Dark Delicacies Signing 2008 Or, Why I Love L.A.

Burbank, California April 12, 2008   I HAD A BUSINESS TRIP planned to Los Angeles this weekend, and so a few weeks ago I called up Del and Sue at Dark Delicacies Bookstore and asked if they wanted me to come down for a signing… they ended up setting up a “mega-signing” around my schedule (which is embarrassingly cool!) which featured Amber Benson, Del James and Jose Prendes for 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 12. I arrived in LA later than…

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World Horror Convention 2008 or, Why I Hate Wyoming

LAST YEAR, FOR NO good reason, Bill Breedlove and I decided to roadtrip to WHC in Toronto. It was a great time, and somehow we didn’t kill each other over the music selections for the trip. So this year, when we decided our press Dark Arts Books was going to run both a party at World Horror and a Dealers Room Table, we opted to road trip again… despite the fact that the trip was…

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