NORMALLY, AT THIS TIME on New Years morning (it’s 1 a.m., an hour after the ball dropped as I start to write this), I pull out my notebook or keyboard and reflect upon the victories of the past year. I relive all of the things that happened that I know helped to shape the me I am today a year later than the last time I did this. Travel to various other cities, vacations, concerts,…
THIS WEEK, TWO OF my horror novels — and my special Christmas book — are all on sale on Amazon for just 99 cents. Plus… my special Christmas page offers music and Christmas computer wallpaper / Zoom background! The Family Tree: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4MCONU NightWhere : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NARGS4E/ Christmas Tales is also on sale this week for just 99 cents! This one is not horror – just three “ghosts of Christmas” kinds of stories to warm the heart:…
A countdown to Halloween featuring 10 great Giallo films from the 1970s, featuring some of the directors and actresses who made the genre famous: Dario Argento, Sergio Martino, Umberto Lenzi and Edwige Fenech, Barbara Bouchet, Anita Strindberg and Erika Blanc.
MY PUBLISHER, FLAME TREE PRESS, has staged a Blog Tour to support the release of Voodoo Heart this week, and the first few entries have been awesome. Many of these reviews have also turned up on Amazon and Goodreads. Readers seem to really be enjoying the novel’s mix of mystery and voodoo and horror! I’ll post excerpts and links here as the tour continues: DAY 1: Oct. 19 The Book Lover’s Boudoir called the book…
Today is the official Release Day of my 12th novel of horror and the macabre! TODAY IS THE RELEASE DAY for my new Flame Tree Press novel, Voodoo Heart. I’m anxious to hear what you think of it! This New Orleans detective / voodoo curse novel has been a long time in coming — I wrote “Vigilantes of Love,” the short story that inspired the novel, 17 years ago! So far, the reviews have been…
THIS WAS THE SUMMER OF BOND. I think my son Shaun and I will always think of it that way somehow. But last weekend, the Summer of Bond came to an end — kind of fittingly really, since it was the weekend after Labor Day, a holiday which always kind of signals the end of summer. On Saturday night, Shaun and I watched Spectre, the 24th “official” James Bond film, ending a summer-long 007 marathon.…
THIS WEEK I RECEIVED the Advance Reading Copy of my 12th novel, Voodoo Heart, my next book from Flame Tree Press (it will be released on October 20). I also set a new personal high score on Mata Hari, a pinball machine that I’ve played since I was 17 years old. And I was a guest on Glenn Rolfe’s Horror Shop YouTube show. So… it’s been a great week! I was thinking that it’s been…
LAST NIGHT, I POSTED this video on my Instagram story – because it was really a perfect Friday night at home! I played a little music on the keyboard & guitar and then spent a couple hours on my pinball machines. Had Material Issue’s best CD Destination Universe on the stereo, a Revolution Anti-Hero IPA in my pinball machine cup holder, and ultimately set my 2nd best high score on the Sorcerer machine (#3 on…
It’s CAPRICON 40 Weekend! This year, the venerable SF/F convention returns to the Wheeling, IL Westin with a “Tropics of Capricon” theme. Consequently, the first panel I’ll be on will be about IPAs – Beers From the Tropics (well, the IPA was really a beer brewed to GO to the tropics!). You know a con that STARTS with a panel on beer is gonna be good! I’ll be around with books in tow all weekend,…
2019 WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR. From an amazing Muse concert to Horror and Pinball conventions and High School Marching Band competitions, it was action-packed. And, for the first time in my writing career, something I wrote appeared on TV (how cool is that?) At the start of December, V Wars launched on Netflix and included two characters – Danika and Mila Dubov – and adaptations of the stories that I wrote about them in…
