‘Tis the Season… Christmastime is here again!

“I wish you a Malty Christmas And a Hoppy New Year, A pocket full of money … And a cellar full of Beer!”  — Anonymous   ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN on my mailing list for long knows that I am a total Christmas nut. Our house has the most lights on the block. Our tree has a million ornaments. I own about 300 Christmas CDs! Over the years, I’ve stepped out of my usual “horror”…

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DIY – How To Build Your Own Oak Home Bar

IF I CAN DO IT… anyone can. Sure, I’m a guy who works with my hands… on a computer keyboard! I write novels, I don’t build furniture, and never thought I’d attempt a big Chicago rail oak home bar. But sometimes, circumstance, bravery (or foolishness) collide. So I am writing this blog to hopefully show that if you want it bad enough… you can build it.  I documented most of my steps along the way…

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Amazon’s Halloween Kindle Deals!

THREE OF MY Leisure/47North horror novels – The Pumpkin Man, Siren and The 13th – were chosen to be on Amazon’s Halloween Horror Kindle Deals promotion – 51 books for $1.99. Figured I should post this for anyone reading the blog in the next 24 hours! Here are the links and descriptions: THE PUMPKIN MAN: http://www.amazon.com/The-Pumpkin-Man-John-Everson-ebook/dp/B009NXM0RQ/ When Jenn inherits her aunt’s cottage, she doesn’t realize she is inheriting the start of a new dark legend.…

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Today is Launch Day: Download THE FAMILY TREE now!

TODAY IS THE OFFICIAL RELEASE DAY for The Family Tree! My 8th novel is now available!  I know a bunch of you on the list have already pre-ordered the book, and I really appreciate it! I can’t wait to hear what everyone thinks of the new story. LET’S HAVE A RELEASE CONTEST! I want to make sure this one gets a good, visible bump — heck, maybe a leap onto a bestseller’s chart! And the…

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Evil is an empty pot of coffee

OVER THE PAST MONTH, Grey Matter Press has orchestrated and sometimes hosted an Uncovering Evil blog tour to promote the anthology Equilibrium Overturned. As one of the authors included in the book, this week, the exploration of the nature of evil falls to me. Over the past month, as this blog tour has been going on, I’ve been working a lot of extra hours at the dayjob. A lot of 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.…

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CAGE OF BONES is on a Kindle Countdown!

MY EROTIC HORROR collection CAGE OF BONES & Other Deadly Obsessions is on a Kindle Countdown Deal this week for just 99 cents!  I’ve always been really proud of this book — CAGE OF BONES was my very first short fiction collection — hell, my very first book, period — originally issued as a limited edition hardcover from Delirium Books way back in 2000. Only 300 copies were printed (they were all signed and numbered…

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Any interview that covers beer, books and Ke$ha…

This week, Glenn Rolfe, a fellow author in the literary trenches of the dark, did an interview with me as I gear up for the release of my eight novel, The Family Tree, next week. He asked some fun questions, and I had fun with the answers. Any interview that covers microbrews, the business of books and the guilty pleasures of Ke$ha is a good time in my book. Check out Glenn’s blog and my…

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The Family Tree puts its roots down… on Oct. 7th!

THE FAMILY TREE, my eighth novel, debuts on October 7th from Samhain Publishing! There are actually a few copies out in the world already… we sold some pre-release copies at the Samhain Publishing booth at HorrorHound Indianapolis a couple weeks ago, and tomorrow night, it will have its Chicago debut at the Chicago Horror Film Fest, where I’ll be a guest. The first review, from Horror Fiction Review, says: “THE FAMILY TREE has a typical…

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Stephen King and me…

WHAT DO Stephen King and John Everson have in common? Qualia Nous! THIS WEEK MARKED a pretty big milestone for me. A new original story of mine called “Voyeur” (written early this spring) appears in a new anthology — Qualia Nous — which also includes stories by William F. Nolan (author of many Twilight Zone scripts as well as Logan’s Run) and … Stephen King! I’ve published a lot of stories in lots of books…

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48 is Great?

FRIDAY MARKS my birthday. Again.  Yep, this weekend I turn 48 years old. I guess time flies when you’re constantly staring at a computer screen! Yesterday I had lunch with a friend I haven’t seen in a long time. We met back when I was 28… which also turns out to be the same year I started publishing fiction. It was great catching up but… damn… how did 20 years slip by so fast? I…

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