HERE WE ARE AGAIN. It seems like I write these New Year’s Eve retrospectives more and more frequently… the days slip by faster and faster! 2024 was, overall, a pretty good year for me. The one sad note was that we lost our cockatiel Stormy over the summer, who was…
AT LONG LAST, yesterday I finally launched a full-fledged book store on my website – just in time for Christmas Shopping (for you or the horror lovers you love)! The John Everson Store is officially open for all your autographed book needs! I have offered autographed copies of some of…
My 15th novel, The Bloodstained Doll, has been released today from Flame Tree Press! If you like mystery, thrillers and horror, I hope you’ll check this one out! Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of the Joe Ledger thrillers read the book before its release and wrote this awesome blurb…
ON JULY 30, my first novella, Living Death Race: Beauty & The Brains, was released in paperback and e-book editions by The Evil Cookie Publishing! It’s hard to believe, but it’s a story that I’ve had in the works for 13 years. And after I turned in The Bloodstained Doll…
I’M IN A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND! We got home early this morning (3:30 a.m.!) from the first Everson family vacation in six years and we had a blast. We celebrated Shaun’s 19th birthday in NYC, and called it an early wedding anniversary celeb to boot. In the five…
A PIECE OF MY HEART died today. It’s never easy to lose a friend, but it’s even harder when it is completely unexpected. This morning, when I uncovered the cage of Stormy, our 10-year-old cockatiel… she was not waiting for me on her perch. She was lying on the bottom…
ON OCTOBER 8, my 15th novel, The Bloodstained Doll, will be released in hardcover, paperback and e-book editions by Flame Tree Press. It’s another horrific murder-mystery thriller in the vein of my last Flame Tree release, Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds. Meant to celebrate the crazy giallo thrillers of Italy…
TONIGHT WHEN I LOGGED in after the workday, I found my social media had been blowing up all day… because The Night Mother is nominated for a 2024 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD in the Best Novel Category!!! Talk about a great way to end the day! I am hugely thankful to everyone…
LAST NIGHT, I drove into Chicago for a showing of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago … which was one of the most amazing nights I’ve had in years. I was lucky enough to be able to attend a special private reception before…
THIS WAS ONE action-packed year for me. Seems like every year slips by faster than the one before these days, but 2023 really cooked! A big part of that was my son Shaun starting college. He’s a music major focused on percussion, so the first quarter of the year we…
