COVENANT is just 99 cents today on Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day!

Today Amazon is featuring my first novel, Covenant on a special promotion for just 99 cents.  It’s part of their Kindle Daily/Gold Box Deal of the Day campaign, featuring 40 Mysteries and Thrillers!  I’m pretty excited that Covenant is getting this extra exposure — there are lots of great books on the list from L.J. Sellers, Max Allan Collins, Simon Wood, Sarah Pinborough and more! You can get Covenant for just 99 cents here. Or…

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NightWhere is a Bram Stoker Award Finalist!

JUST OVER A MONTH AGO, right after I landed in Santiago, Chile for a week-long business trip, I received word that my sixth novel, NightWhere, had made the final ballot for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards. What a great way to start a long trip, right? I was obviously pretty excited about the nomination — this is the first time one of my novels has been on the Bram Stoker ballot since Covenant got there…

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Remembering Chile

DURING THE LAST WEEK in February 2013, I flew to Santiago, Chile for a week-long business trip. I’ve never been to South America before, and really didn’t know what to expect. People (and the Internet) insisted that folks in Santiago would have a good smattering of English, since it’s a cosmopolitan city and they’re teaching it now in as a second language in schools. I was hopeful for that, since my second language choice in…

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Thumbs Up, Roger Ebert

MY WIFE CALLED ME at work yesterday to tell me Roger Ebert had died. I really wish that she’d called me to say something else. Like ‘could you pick up some milk on your way home.’ I wasn’t Roger Ebert’s friend; I never met him (though honestly, I always wanted to). But he was more of a rock star to me than most rock stars — which is saying something given that I was a…

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