IT’S THE SATURDAY before Halloween. That means you have the whole weekend to hang out in the Coffin Hop! Hopefully if you’re reading this right now, you’re already hip to the Hop… but if not, please read my post from yesterday. I am participating in the Coffin Hop for the third year in a row, and this year I’m giving away a free e-book of my novelette Violet Lagoon every day until Halloween… when the…
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE but Halloween is just around the corner… and that means, it’s time for the Coffin Hop! What is the Coffin Hop, you ask? I would like to say that it’s an event where everyone climbs into a coffin and hops bunny style towards a finish line while being chased by a line of Grim Reapers with extra shiny blades. Sadly, it’s not quite that cool. But it IS pretty cool. The…
SO, WHILE I’VE BEEN out-of-pocket traveling the past couple days, it appears that the spiders all got loose! Yep – My seventh novel, VIOLET EYES, is now available in both e-book and trade paperback from all the usual places! * Amazon * B&N * Books-A-Million * Chapters-Indigo * Samhain This is my big “spider” book, and I’m really excited about the release – it’s been a long time coming. I first outlined the novel five…
LOOK WHAT CAME in the mail today, all the way from France! A copy of MYTHOLOGICA, a special preview “Issue 0” edition of a new gorgeously illustrated trade paperback-size French magazine. It features a translation of my story “The Strong Will Survive,” which was originally published in Space & Time magazine and then in my collection Needles & Sins. Huge thanks to Thomas Bauduret for buying and translating it for this release. Thomas also has…
LOOK WHAT ARRIVED in the mail — my first book — now in paperback for the first time ever!!! CAGE OF BONES & Other Deadly Obsessions was originally released as a limited edition hardcover by Delirium Books 13 years ago… but it has never had a trade paperback release until now. I have always felt bad that CAGE OF BONES never came out in a paperback version when it was originally released. It was my very…
I HAD A GREAT TIME this weekend hanging out and talking horror with my fellow authors from Samhain Publishing at HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis! This was the first HorrorHound I’ve gone to, and hopefully won’t be the last. My publisher, Samhain, was a major sponsor of the event and so they had a long table right in the front of the exhibit hall where I sat all weekend and signed copies of Violet Eyes and…
BACK IN 2006, my novelette Failure launched a “hardcover chapbook” line for Delirium Books. I got to create the wraparound cover art for that and the next several releases in the line, which was a lot of fun and really allowed me to stretch creatively. This week, my imprint Dark Arts Books has reissued Failure with new updated cover art as well as a new author Afterword. The original full wraparound cover art is also…
Independence: the state of not being controlled by others. Freedom from the influence, support, aid of others. HUMAN LIFE IS A constant struggle to attain the freedom that you want to do what you want… while at the same time, attaining the right amount of dependence on others — spouse, workmates, friends — so that you’re not starving and alone. No matter how beautiful the landscape may be, it’s really no good to be wandering…
AT THE START, it always seems like you have all the time in the world… and then suddenly, it’s over and everyone’s on a plane back home. World Horror Convention 2013 in New Orleans was no different… this was my 11th World Horror Con, and a special one for me, since my novel NightWhere was a Bram Stoker Awards finalist for best novel (the awards were held Saturday night). THURSDAY I flew in Thursday morning…
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY edition of Vigilantes of Love, my 2nd short story collection, came out in e-book a couple months ago, and now I’m happy to announce that it’s also available once again as a trade paperback. The book includes an updated cover (using elements of the original, but rearranging them a bit), a new preface from me (about the book and the decade since its release) and six stories that were originally considered for…
