OFIARA + THE 13TH Flats!

THIS WAS A reallllllly good mail day! I’ve been waiting for weeks for my copies of the Polish edition of Sacrifice to hit my doorstep (known across the water as Ofiara). I have asked my wife dozens of times on the phone while at work: Hey, is there a box from Poland in the mail? She always said No. But today – she called me to say: Hey… the mailman just had me sign for a box from…

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SACRIFICE Tour: Wrapping Up!

BACK AT THE END of April, when I started visiting bookstores and doing signings to promote my novel Sacrifice, I had this idea that I would blog every week about the tour, post pictures, produce kind of a travelogue… Yeah. That didn’t happen. In early May, I chronicled week one (San Diego, St. Louis and Springfield), but since then, I’ve been running around too much to blog about where I’ve been, until now, as it…

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Hypericon & a BBQ obsession

I’VE ALWAYS LOVED BARBECUE. Hell, I have my own secret sauce recipe. I’ve had great barbecue in Kansas City and Austin and Dallas, among other cities. But my favorite to date may be a little place in Nashville, TN called Jack’s Bar-B-Que. Thank you, Hypericon, for having me down to Nashville so I could discover it! Here’s how it all went down. (And FYI – you can click on any photos on this page for…

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Stokers 2009 Redux w/Pix!

I’VE BEEN TO several Bram Stoker Award ceremonies over the years. I remember my first couple, in the early 2000s, felt very formal and a little stuffy (though that might have had more to do with me being a newbie to the field than the events themselves). The last couple I went to were simply nerve-wracking for me, since I was a nominee. This year’s, however, was the best ever, as far as I’m concerned!…

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INFERNALLY signed

IT’s BEEN A MONTH of signing Necro Publications signature sheets for me! A couple weeks ago I signed all the inside pages for the hardcover edition of my novel, The 13th, which Necro will issue next month. And last night I finished signing a stack of 500 signature sheets for the anthology Infernally Yours, which Necro will also be issuing in a month or two. Click on the photo at right to see a larger…

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