OVER THE PAST THREE months, new audiobook company Fright Night Audio has released four of my novels in audiobook format via Amazon and Audible. Violet Eyes, which previously had a limited release a few years ago from Audio Realms, just came out in a newly recorded edition this week and…
AFTER A 10-MONTH WAIT, The Night Mother, the sequel to NightWhere, is finally available! I turned in the manuscript to my editor at Flame Tree Press almost a year ago, so I’m super excited that the book finally launched on Thursday, June 1st via the Dark Arts Books imprint (a…
“NightWhere is a batshit crazy, hot, wet ride into hell!”-Dreadful Tales 2022 WAS THE 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the release of NightWhere, my sixth novel and my second to be a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. It was also the year I finished writing its long-awaited and promised sequel, The…
A LITTLE RAIN couldn’t dampen the high spirits of Horror fans last weekend in Cincinnati, although nobody wanted to stand in the drizzle on Friday waiting for the doors to open for the first HorrorHound Weekend of 2023! Luckily, the clouds didn’t last all weekend. I drove down to Cincinnati…
IT WAS A GOOD YEAR. I won’t say a VERY good year, but 2022 wasn’t bad. While things started returning to normal after the worst of the pandemic was over in 2021, this year, while masks were still very much in evidence, we all kind of went back to travel…
TALK ABOUT AN AMAZING weekend. HorrorHound 2022 in Cincinnati was outstanding. I have been to shows with more people (DragonCon, Wizard World) but never a show with more engaged people. Horror fans were glad to be back at their spring convention, and it showed. From the time HorrorHound opened on…
WELCOME TO WEEK THREE of 21 Nights of Giallo! Over the past 14 nights of reviews, I covered movies from Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Luciano Ercoli, Sergio Martino and more. I’ve been reviewing a classic Italian giallo film every night this month, as a fun lead-up to the…
21 NIGHTS OF GIALLO continues with Week Two! I am reviewing a classic Italian giallo film every night in March, as a fun lead-up to the March 22nd release of my 13th novel Five Deaths For Seven Songbirds. I love giallo films, and my novel pays tribute to them… so…
A survey of some of the best classic giallo films from directors Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Umberto Lenzi and more! Week One features A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, What Have You Done To Solange?, Death Laid an Egg, Puzzle, So Sweet…So Perverse, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and Deep Red.
NOBODY IMAGINED TWO YEARS AGO that we’d spend the past 21 months wearing masks and closeting ourselves in our homes whenever possible to avoid a frequently deadly virus. Or that temporary telecommuting would turn into a permanent situation. It has for me… and I’m loving it (not a lot of…
