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…
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…
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…
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…
Singing the Siren’s Song By John Everson They’re soft, they’re sweet, they’re warm, they’re loving. Just don’t make them mad. I’m not talking about gremlins or Mogwai here… though there are some similarities if you feed them the wrong thing after midnight. And that wrong thing does includes doses of…
I HAD A GOOD STRING of World Horror Convention attendance going — 9 in a row all told from 2000 to 2008. But when the con crossed the ocean to go to Brighton, UK in 2009, I just couldn’t justify the expense and had to sit out a year. And…
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…
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…
SO. TWO AND A HALF years ago, I stopped in Nashville for a night while driving — on my way to my first Dragon*Con in Atlanta. It was the week Covenant, my first novel was released in mass market paperback, and so, I ended up doing the very first booksigning…
A YEAR AGO AT THIS MOMENT, I was sitting in my home office listening to the final hour of my favorite radio station ever, AuralGasms.com. After a lifetime of musical obsession and two decades of hearing just about everything released as a music critic, during the last half of the…
