MY NEW NOVEL, Siren, got some nice cover play on an MSNBC video news report today! Unfortunately, the news report was about the rise of e-publishing and the consequent death of the mass market paperback line of my publisher, Leisure Books, (SIREN was the last mass market book they published), but check out the news video here: E-readers quickly replacing ink, paper: Sept. 10: For Dorchester Publishing, one of the country’s oldest at paperback publishers,…
I’M OFF IN THE MORNING to drive down to Atlanta for Dragon*Con 2010. If you’re going to this phenomenal SF/F/H fan convention, I hope you’ll come by one of my panels or my autographing session and say hi! I have to admit it’s with somewhat mixed emotions that I pack up to go this time around though. Two years ago, in 2008, I did my very first signing to promote the mass market release of Covenant…
I WAS PRETTY psyched this week when Replika, my Polish translation publisher sent me a link to a YouTube performance of my short story “Letting Go”… in Polish. It sounds great — now if I just understood what the reader was saying ? Check the audio reading out now via YouTube. Replika did it to promote the Polish translation edition of my 3rd short fiction collection Needles & Sins, which is being released in Poland this…
I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS about this city, but something here calls to me. I’ve spent more time here than almost anywhere besides my home in Chicago, some by choice, some for work. I’ve set two novels just north of here, and a short story that I wrote about the Tenderloin district was on the Honorable Mention list of the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror a few years ago. Tonight I walked through the…
MY FOURTH NOVEL, Siren, is now available in mass market paperback as a featured August release from Leisure Books! I’d say it’s “available in bookstores everywhere” as I have with my previous novel releases, however, as it’s turned out… that’s not quite the case. It is available through bookstores everywhere, however, you’ll have to look for this one a little harder than past releases to find it on shelf, and possibly might need to ask…
THIS WEEK, THE LIMITED hardcover edition of Siren, my fourth novel, went up for pre-order from Bad Moon Books. (click on the cover art to see a larger version) If you want to reserve a copy, give me a shout or follow this link to its page on The Horror Mall. I am really excited about this book… it’s a little bit of a departure for me, as it’s the first of my novels NOT…
I BOUGHT MY FIRST Ramsey Campbell novel, Ancient Images, over 20 years ago. I loved the perfect combination of mystery and dread it displayed, with a classic celluloid theme as a backdrop. This weekend, I not only got Ramsey Campbell to sign that well-worn book, I took him and his wife Jenny to dinner on behalf of Hypericon, a Nashville Convention where he was the guest of honor. Not only did I get to introduce…
LAST SATURDAY, when I got home from taking my son Shaun to his first Chicago Cubs game (where my Cubbies trounced arch enemies the St. Louis Cardinals!) I found a box sitting on the porch from Delirium Books. I cracked the tape open to find a stack of my new mini-hardcover short story collection Creeptych. A three-story collection of “buggy” stories, this book is close to my heart, as it resuscitates the mothballed Delirium hardcover chapbook format…
I’M OFF TO Dallas in the Morning! I’ve got a business trip for the weekend to Dallas, and so tomorrow night, May 13th at 6 p.m., I’ll be doing a signing at Texas’ only all horror bookstore, Eerie Books, 205 N. Ballard Street, Wylie, TX, 972-442-9393. If you’re in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, I hope you’ll stop by.
I’VE GOT BUGS on the brain. Today, The Horror Mall unveiled my new short fiction collection Creeptych. I’ve been hinting at this one for awhile (I started writing the final piece for the collection last fall). A three-story book focused on things with appetite and a lot of legs, this one is available both as an e-book through Darkside Digital, and as a limited edition hardcover chapbook from Delirium Books. I’m particularly excited about the latter edition, as…
