It’s been a pretty crazy month for me — aside from having our kitchen completely ripped up as it is being redone floor to ceiling, I was also out of the country for work for a week… so I’m afraid I’m remiss in announcing the winners of last month’s The Family Tree contest… Nevertheless… I did, in fact, notify the winners in August. Here’s how it all went down — Samhain Publishing was running a…
MY EIGHTH NOVEL, The Family Tree, was released late in the fall last year, but it’s totally a “summer” book. All the events take place in a backwoods locale in the midst of summer… So this week, it’s like a re-launch — my publisher, Samhain Publishing, has put the novel on sale at 99 cents on all outlets. I’m hoping to make this a super successful sale so that it gets read and discovered by…
MY SECOND BOOK ever released (back in 2003!) was Vigilantes of Love, a collection that includes horror tales, but also some of my lighter, more heartstring-pulling stories. Originally released on Chicago’s Twilight Tales imprint, it eventually went out of print with the dissolution of Twilight Tales until I got the rights back a couple years ago and released an updated version of my Dark Arts Books label. Vigilantes of Love has some of my favorite…
A LOT OF PEOPLE have asked me if I’m going to write a sequel to my sixth novel, NightWhere. I do want to eventually… I’ve always been interested in exploring the character of Selena more. But, that’s not what I’m currently working on. Never enough time to write all the stories I’d like to! I did, however, write a long “side story” set in the world of the novel awhile ago that has at last…
I’M PROUD TO BE the February “Guest Writer” in the new issue of THE HORROR ZINE which just went live today! Check out the magazine online — they are featuring my story “After The Fifth Step” – one of my favorite stories to read aloud to an audience. It was originally written for the 2002 anthology Freaks, Geeks & Sideshow Floozies and had also been collected in my short fiction books Vigilantes of Love and…
I’M PRETTY EXCITED that the Horror Novel Reviews web site picked my 8th novel, The Family Tree, as one of their Top 10 Horror Novels of 2014! The list includes books by Stephen King, Joe R. Landsdale and Eric Red. You can see the full list and book descriptions here: http://horrornovelreviews.com/2014/12/25/the-top-10-horror-novels-of-2014/ HNR called the book “a crazy, crazy engaging story that leads readers down an exciting but unexpected path. Awesome characters, awesome conflict, awesome setup,…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
