The Pumpkin Man is here!

IT’S OCTOBER, and that means… The Pumpkin Man is coming! Actually, The Pumpkin Man is here. You can see it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Dorchester, etc. I received my copies of the trade paperback on Friday, and they look great! My fifth novel started shipping to bookstores early last…

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SIREN in Verizon Commercial!

YOU NEED TO freeze-frame and full-screen the video to see it, but the other day Verizon launched a new iPad 2 TV commercial… and the e-book at the top right of the iPad that the user holds while demo-ing the e-reading capabilities of the tablet is none other than my…

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My Summer Vacation, 2011 Edition

I LOVE ROADTRIPS. For a couple years, I did a lot of them, since when my first few novels were released, I drove to Cincinnati, Nashville, St. Louis, Indianapolis and even Atlanta to do bookstore signings. Over the past year, with changes in the book industry and the collapse of…

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Flashback Weekend 2011

SO FOR YEARS NOW,  I’ve heard about how I should go to Flashback Weekend, a horror media con held out in Rosemont, IL (not far from where I work). For one reason or another, I’ve never ended up going, but this year, Mitch Wells, from The Horror Society.com offered to…

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23 on the 23rd

TODAY – JULY 23RD – marked the 23rd year of marriage to my wife Geri. It’s hard to believe all the twists and turns life has brought over those years (not to mention through the five years of dating before July 23, 1988). Three houses, apartments, vacations, fights, fun, the…

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SIREN featured on Borders

THIS WEEKEND, Borders.com invited me to be their Guest Author Blogger to talk about Siren, since my 4th novel is being reissued this month in trade paperback format. The mass market edition of the novel was released last summer, however the book got somewhat lost in the shuffle, since almost…

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Vigilantes of Love for a buck!

TO CELEBRATE THE re-release of my 2nd book of dark fantasy fiction, Vigilantes of Love in e-book format, for a limited time the collection is on sale at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble for just $0.99. That’s 15 stories for under a buck! The book was originally released in trade…

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On Turning 45…

I TURNED 45 years old this week, but I was honestly too busy with various deadlines to really sit back and take stock of what that means. I’m halfway to 90, I got that far in my considerations. And in all likelihood, given family history and population averages, I’m probably…

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