YOU NEED TO freeze-frame and full-screen the video to see it, but the other day Verizon launched a new iPad 2 TV commercial… and the e-book at the top right of the iPad that the user holds while demo-ing the e-reading capabilities of the tablet is none other than my fourth novel SIREN! You can see it at around the 6- and 9-second marks of the commercial, just before the user opens TWILIGHT. Yep, that’s…
I LOVE ROADTRIPS. For a couple years, I did a lot of them, since when my first few novels were released, I drove to Cincinnati, Nashville, St. Louis, Indianapolis and even Atlanta to do bookstore signings. Over the past year, with changes in the book industry and the collapse of Borders, it really hasn’t made any sense to drive around the country for books… but we did stage a family vacation a couple weeks ago,…
SO FOR YEARS NOW, I’ve heard about how I should go to Flashback Weekend, a horror media con held out in Rosemont, IL (not far from where I work). For one reason or another, I’ve never ended up going, but this year, Mitch Wells, from The Horror Society.com offered to sell some of my books from his table, so I decided to head up and take him up on it — and finally check out…
TODAY – JULY 23RD – marked the 23rd year of marriage to my wife Geri. It’s hard to believe all the twists and turns life has brought over those years (not to mention through the five years of dating before July 23, 1988). Three houses, apartments, vacations, fights, fun, the birth of my son Shaun… life has never gotten boring. A couple weeks ago, we were channel surfing (a rarity, since I almost never watch…
THIS WEEKEND, Borders.com invited me to be their Guest Author Blogger to talk about Siren, since my 4th novel is being reissued this month in trade paperback format. The mass market edition of the novel was released last summer, however the book got somewhat lost in the shuffle, since almost immediately after its release, my publisher, Leisure Books, axed its mass market line. The Barnes & Noble website even featured the book last December with…
Singing the Siren’s Song By John Everson They’re soft, they’re sweet, they’re warm, they’re loving. Just don’t make them mad. I’m not talking about gremlins or Mogwai here… though there are some similarities if you feed them the wrong thing after midnight. And that wrong thing does includes doses of B. S., by the way. No, I’m talking about women. Those amazing, beautiful, complex creatures that rule our race, no matter what any patriarch may…
I HAD A GOOD STRING of World Horror Convention attendance going — 9 in a row all told from 2000 to 2008. But when the con crossed the ocean to go to Brighton, UK in 2009, I just couldn’t justify the expense and had to sit out a year. And then they went out of country again in 2010 — to Winnipeg, Canada… where basically nobody registered to go. Including me. So… after missing World…
TO CELEBRATE THE re-release of my 2nd book of dark fantasy fiction, Vigilantes of Love in e-book format, for a limited time the collection is on sale at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble for just $0.99. That’s 15 stories for under a buck! The book was originally released in trade paperback format in 2003, but has been out of print for several years, so it’s great to see it available again. Vigilantes includes Twilight Zone-style…
I TURNED 45 years old this week, but I was honestly too busy with various deadlines to really sit back and take stock of what that means. I’m halfway to 90, I got that far in my considerations. And in all likelihood, given family history and population averages, I’m probably more than halfway through the race. No worries – I’m not getting maudlin over this one, but there it is. Time is moving on and…
SO. TWO AND A HALF years ago, I stopped in Nashville for a night while driving — on my way to my first Dragon*Con in Atlanta. It was the week Covenant, my first novel was released in mass market paperback, and so, I ended up doing the very first booksigning for my novel in Nashville at the West End Borders Books. On my way driving into town to that Borders, I passed a brewpub a…
