IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, but it was 10 years ago that Twilight Tales Books in Chicago issued my 2nd collection of short fantasy and macabre stories, Vigilantes of Love. A decade ago! Since Twilight Tales is no longer around, to celebrate the anniversary, I’ve gone back and retooled the cover, added a new introduction and six more short stories that didn’t end up in the original release and have never been collected in my other…
IT’S TRULY A “Lucky ’13″… at least so far. Amazon has picked my 2nd and 3rd novels, Sacrifice and The 13th, to feature in their January 2013 “hot 100” list! They’ve put both e-books on sale for just $2.99, so if you haven’t gotten these yet, I hope you’ll grab them this week while they’re on sale! You can see them listed in the 100 Kindle Books Mysteries & Thrillers section (just scroll down a…
I’M A CHRISTMAS JUNKIE. Always have been. I’m that guy who watches It’s A Wonderful Life every year on Christmas Eve, and still tears up every time! Over the years, I’ve built up a number of personal traditions around the holiday. As many people on my mailing list know, part of my holiday tradition for many years was to write and record a new Christmas song every year for family and friends, usually with my…
NIGHTWHERE IS THE NOVEMBER selection of the Samhain Horror Book Club! This means until this Friday, November 16th, you can get the trade paper edition or e-book copies for 40% off. Just visit www.samhainpublishing.com/bookclubs/ I’ve been really excited about this novel over the past few weeks, because NightWhere has gotten a string of amazing 5-star reader reviews on Amazon and Goodreads as well as from regular ‘zine and website reviewers. Last month, Paul Goat Allen…
… Jason Darrick! On Halloween night, I pulled Jason’s “Show Us Your Night Wear” contest entry out of the Great Pumpkin, and so tonight I’ve boxed up an autographed trio of NightWhere, Siren and The 13th for him. Congratulations, Jason, and thanks to everyone who entered! Happy Halloween!
WHEN I FIRST turned in the manuscript for my sixth novel NightWhere last fall to Don D’Auria, my editor at Samhain Publishing, he suggested that I consider changing the title. “NightWhere,” he said, “kind of sounds like it might be the lingerie floor at a department store!” Or something to that effect. Obviously, I didn’t change the title, though I recognized that he probably had a point. But considering that the novel NightWhere is about…
TONIGHT IS THE OFFICIAL RELEASE PARTY for my sixth novel, NightWhere. Huge thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word about the book’s release this week on Facebook and Twitter. And I hope some of you will be able to come down to Horrorbles horror and sci fi memorabilia store tonight in Berwyn, IL and help me celebrate the release in person! Starting at 7 p.m., I’ll be hosting the release party at Horrorbles and…
MY BACKLIST, THAT IS. And I can’t tell you how happy I am about that. Today I can proudly say, “My ass is Amazon’s!” When I signed my first paperback book deal with Leisure Books, the premier imprint for horror novels five years ago, I never imagined that the company would be essentially mothballed less than four years later… but the ebook revolution and flawed business models ultimately killed Dorchester Publications (and its imprints like…
IT’S BEEN SIX WEEKS since NightWhere hit the e-book shelves (and will be another 10 weeks still before the trade paperback is out in stores) but already there have been a bunch of great reviews that have turned up. And I’ve been interviewed about the book on Internet radio and online magazines as well. Here are some of the things that have turned up about the novel: INTERVIEWS THE ELECTRIC CHAIR SHOW (audio): http://electricchairshow.com/2012/07/the-electric-chair-013-danny-isnt-here/ SUSPENSE…
“NightWhere“ is a great new novel from John Everson. Though I highly recommend the book to all fans of horror and suspense, this does come with the warning that the subject matter is extremely graphic and intense in both sexual and violent content. It is never gratuitous, however, for to hold back anything depicted in its pages would betray the premise and the book would suffer for it. “NightWhere” proves that not only has Everson…
