World Horror Convention 2013 / Bram Stoker Awards

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…

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Vigilantes of Love in paperback again!

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…

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BEER SNOB: Ann Arbor and Calgary

OVER THE PAST couple weeks, I’ve been to Ann Arbor, Michigan and Calgary, Canada on business trips. Both turned out to be great micro-brew towns, with a handful of small breweries all within a few blocks of each other. So over the course of a few days I poked my head in, snapped a couple pictures and sampled a variety of ales.  It was a great beer snob adventure! Click on any of the pictures…

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BEER SNOB: Seattle

I travel a lot both for my dayjob and book promotion… and I love tasting good craft beer. So that means I end up trying a lot of different brews in a lot of different places. I’ve been posting snippets and pictures periodically over the past few years, especially on Facebook, about my various discoveries. But I was thinking after my last flurry of travel that I should start a separate topic on this blog…

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Beam me up, I’ve met Captain Kirk!

I WAS SIX OR SEVEN years old when I first started watching Star Trek re-runs with my dad. I remember that because a) I loved the show and b) my mom always insisted that bedtime was about halfway through each episode. Talk about frustrating! Yesterday, some forty years later, was a Star Trek “homecoming” for me. Geri and I went to see the new Star Trek “reboot” movie, Into Darkness, and William Shatner was there…

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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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SIREN hits #1 in Horror on Amazon.com!

YESTERDAY MORNING, I woke up expecting to log onto my computer to find that my e-book sales had quieted after a month of excitement. Amazon.com had been featuring The 13th and Sacrifice at $2.99 throughout January, but I knew when those went off sale at midnight on Jan. 31… things would probably settle down. Instead… I found that on February 1, Amazon.com took those titles off… but put Siren on their next Kindle 100 promotional…

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