MY WIFE CALLED ME at work yesterday to tell me Roger Ebert had died. I really wish that sheâd called me to say something else. Like âcould you pick up some milk on your way home.â I wasnât Roger Ebertâs friend; I never met him (though honestly, I always wanted…
YESTERDAY MORNING, I woke up expecting to log onto my computer to find that my e-book sales had quieted after a month of excitement. Amazon.com had been featuring The 13th and Sacrifice at $2.99 throughout January, but I knew when those went off sale at midnight on Jan. 31⊠things…
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, Iâve gone back and retooled the cover,…
IT’S TRULY A âLucky â13âłâŠ at least so far. Amazon has picked my 2nd and 3rd novels, Sacrifice and The 13th, to feature in their January 2013 âhot 100â list! Theyâve put both e-books on sale for just $2.99, so if you havenât gotten these yet, I hope youâll grab…
2012 WAS A STRANGE YEAR of dichotomy for me. I can point to parts and say it was one of the best years of my life. Conversely, I can also point to moments that made it one of the worst. It was a year of transition in many aspects ⊅
IâM A CHRISTMAS JUNKIE. Always have been. Iâm that guy who watches Itâs A Wonderful Life every year on Christmas Eve, and still tears up every time! Over the years, Iâve built up a number of personal traditions around the holiday. As many people on my mailing list know, part…
THERE’S A BLOG CHAIN going around called âThe Next Big Thing.â The idea is, each writer answers some questions about their next big project⊠and lines up more authors to do the same, encouraging people to discover other authorsâ books and blogs. My friend â and amazing werewolf-oriented thriller author…
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/ Iâve been really excited about this novel over the past few weeks, because NightWhere has gotten…
⊠Jason Darrick! On Halloween night, I pulled Jasonâs âShow Us Your Night Wearâ contest entry out of the Great Pumpkin, and so tonight Iâve 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 DâAuria, my editor at Samhain Publishing, he suggested that I consider changing the title. âNightWhere,â he said, âkind of sounds like it might be the lingerie floor at a department store!â Or something to…
