SOMETIMES, ON A WET or wintry Sunday, I walk into the kitchen after my morning coffee and say, “this feels like the perfect day for a stew.” A good stew fills the house with rich savory scents that can warm up the most dismal day! A good stew is always somewhat unique, depending on what happens to be in the fridge and freezer at the time. But the keys are meat, potatoes, onions and carrots.…
IT’S 1:30 AM on the first day of 2018 as I start to write this and think back on all the cool things that happened in 2017 (like this photo with my friends from Synapse Films). It was truly a year of transitions for me. The DVD of the Grateful Dead Farewell Concert at Soldier’s Field in Chicago is playing a few feet away on my big screen TV right now — watching that seemed…
IT’S BEEN LONG overdue, but I’ve officially launched the JohnEverson.com redesign! My site has had a few different looks over the years but the last time I gave it a full redesign was August 2008. The web has changed a lot since then, so JohnEverson.com really needed a facelift. The last design was my longest-lived look, thanks to the design help of Alina Ciejka Gonciarz and the awesome artwork from Travis Anthony Soumis (repurposed from…
THE BEAUTY IN RUINS review site gave my 6th novel, NightWhere, a glowing review earlier this year on its associated blog WTF Are You Reading?, and this week, the site listed the book as a top read of 2017 calling it “a work of erotic horror that delivered on both fronts.” Check out the full best of the year list from Beauty In Ruins.
I CAN’T BELIEVE it is Christmas Eve already! Here’s a little song to help make your holiday merry. I wrote “Show Me Christmas” 20 years ago and recorded it at my friend Mark Konzen’s house with my friend Lexi Zehren at the mic. Turn it up! And while you’re listening, here’s an original Christmas fantasy story that I wrote a long time again for family and friends that you can read: It’s called, “Christmas, The…
THIS WEEK, THE E-BOOK editions of nearly all of my books are on sale on Amazon! Redemption, The Family Tree, NightWhere, Violet Eyes, Violet Lagoon, Field of Flesh and Sacrificing Virgins are all just 99 cents! Covenant, Sacrifice and The 13th are just $1.49! It’s the John Everson Super Cyber-Week Sale! Plus – Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions is… FREE! I’m hoping lots of new readers will discover my work this week during…
LAST MONTH, I SIGNED a contract for my 10th novel, The House by the Cemetery, with a new imprint from a long established UK house, Flametree Publishing. I’ll once again be working with Don D’Auria, my editor from Leisure Books and Samhain Publishing, and am proud to say I was the first author to finalize a deal for the new venture, which will also include my Samhain pals Jonathan Janz and Hunter Shea. Early promotion…
I HAVE GROWN to really love HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis as much as I love my own hometown Flashback Weekend Convention. I started going to HorrorHound a few years ago because my last publisher, Samhain Publishing, was a major sponsor and so they had a large space at the front of one of the exhibit halls… and six to eight of their authors hung out at the table all weekend signing books. But when Samhain…
I HAD A GREAT time at Wizard World Chicago Comic Con this weekend! These conventions always seem to fly by; one minute it’s Thursday and it looks like tons of time ahead… and then all of a sudden it’s 4 p.m. Sunday and you’re packing up to go home. This year, once again author wrangler and moderator extraordinaire Genese Davis pulled me in to do panels on fiction writing and help with managing the author…
FLASHBACK WEEKEND is one of my favorite events of the year, but this year’s edition for me can be summed up in five words: Suspiria and Better Off Dead! These are two of my favorite films, and this year, Synapse Films gave a preview of their 4K restoration of Suspiria next door to the hotel at the former Muvico theater. And it was gorgeous! Don May gave a brief talk about the trials of restoring…
