SO, WHILE IT’S NOW been out a couple weeks, this was the “official” Covenant debut party weekend… with a signing staged at the Bolingbrook, IL BORDERS store Friday night just a mile or two from my house, and the “official Launch Party” at Frugal Muse Books in Darien, IL Saturday afternoon, just a few miles down the road. Frugal Muse is an independent bookstore that has always supported my books (and was my “local” bookstore for…
TALK ABOUT A busy week! Last Thursday I signed in Nashville, then spent the weekend at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, and then on Tuesday I toured the Makers Mark distillery in Kentucky on the way home. This Thursday night, I sat in on the Radio Free El Paso show (AM 1650) with Ken Hudnall. The show is also simulcast on the web at www.khro1650.com. We talked about Dragon*Con, Covenant, Star Trek, The Night Stalker and a…
I SURVIVED the roach. I never saw him again. Though… perhaps he got off the floor of that dingy hotel room after I clobbered him with the TV remote and crawled down my throat to get his vengeance while I was sleeping… because today, the area of my tonsils feels like it’s been sandpapered. Yep, I’ve got the post-con, didn’t-sleep-for-four-days blues. And another busy weekend coming up to boot — a newspaper interview and booksigning tomorrow night and a…
PEOPLE HAVE TOLD me for years that I should go to Dragon*Con in Atlanta, but I never found a good reason – while it’s a huge convention (30,000+ attendees) – it’s known for being a SF/F/Gaming con, not a horror home. Nevertheless, this year when I found out Covenant was being released the week of the con, I figured, what the hell? I also figured, why not drive down, save a little on airfare, and do a …
John Everson’s one busy man: Over the past 15 years, his fiction has appeared in over 50 magazines, and among his novels, his 2004 COVENANT took the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel. COVENANT has just been released as an affordable mass market paperback by Leisure Books . . . now it’s time for the masses to see what they’ve been missing in the small press. We sat down (okay, emailed) John recently to…
And so it begins! I’ve spent the past few months getting ready and now it’s really, finally here. The countdown clock on my website currently reads just 2 days ’til the mass market debut of Covenant (and actually, a few folks already have copies, since Amazon.com and the Leisure Book Club already started shipping). Last week I relaunched my website, www.johneverson.com, and this week, I’ll begin the crazy “tour” schedule I’ve been building all summer to promote Covenant.…
A FEW WEEKS AGO, the ARCs (advanced reader copies) of Covenant were mailed to reviewers (hey – if you got one, you can say you received the ARC of the COVENANT!!!) I’m happy to say that the first early reviews are coming in! Horror Fiction Review wrote that “COVENANT won a Bram Stoker Award in 2004 and it’s easy to see why: Everson’s writing is fast paced, the several characters are very believable (which in…
WELL, DESPITE A month-long countdown on my website, this year’s Naperville Ribfest didn’t go down quite as planned (for me) last weekend. I’d hoped to go 3 or possibly all 4 of the days of the fest but… my son was sick with a headcold the first half of the weekend, and I spent a day and a half picking up (took 3 trips to cram it into an SUV!) and putting together a new patio…
LAST WEEK, I promised that I’d post a photo of my “death defying drop” while enjoying the water parks of the Wisconsin Dells. Sadly, when I looked at the couple of pictures on the camera of me on the slide this week… they don’t look like much (you can click on the picture to see a slightly larger version). That blip on the red slide is me (I did that one twice!). I did the…
BACK FROM THE Wisconsin Dells today… and for the first time in 42 years, I finally got on a water slide (as a rollercoaster afficionado, that’s like, long overdue!!!) I haven’t looked at the pix we took, but potentially, a death defying drop photo is coming soon. I just sent out the first edition of my new e-newsletter… if you didn’t get a copy, email me at john@johneverson.com, or sign up at www.johneverson.com/newsletter/ and I’ll…
