Merry Christmas, Everyone

IN CHICAGOLAND, the ground is covered by snow… and my house is festooned (how often do you get to use that word?) with lights…It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Good thing too, since today is Christmas Eve. It’s hard to believe it’s the end of 2009 already. Since last December, both Sacrifice and The 13th have been released and I’ve written and turned in a fourth novel, Siren. I’ve done book signings all…

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THE 13TH on film

A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, when I was the author guest at the Chicago Horror Film Festival, I met Chicago Filmmaker John Borowski, who has been featured on the History Channel – he wrote and directed the serial killer documentaries H.H. Holmes and Albert Fish. We hit it off pretty well, and yesterday John, with the help of cinematographer Eric Richter,  wrapped a creepy new video “trailer” for my third novel The 13th! I’m hoping this is…

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Frightening Journeys

SOMEDAY I HOPE to meet Nerine Dorman. A South African writer, editor, photographer, model and musician, I “met” her through a Yahoo Group many years ago, and we’ve been in touch off and on ever since. During that time, I’ve gone on to publish books, and now she’s on the eve of the release of her own first fantasy novel, Khepera Rising. Life does move forward… This week she did a short interview with me to…

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