DEADLY NIGHTLUSTS Now Available!

DEADLY NIGHTLUSTS A Collection of Forbidden Magic (Blasphemous Books, November 2010) $2.99 (e-book short fiction collection) MY FIFTH SHORT fiction collection has just launched the new imprint Blasphemous Books! This collection began as a quick ebook “two-fer” download of a couple of my older stories that I really liked but…

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COVENANT hits B&N Top 30

PEOPLE SURE DO love a sale! To capitalize on the Halloween season, my publisher, Leisure Books put the e-book edition of my latest novel Siren up for sale for a few days at $2.99 over at Barnes & Noble. That book took an instant vault in sales and just missed…

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COVENANT: Top 10 eBook!

RIGHT NOW, my first novel Covenant is in the Top 10 sellers on Amazon’s Kindle rankings for Horror/Occult. Now there’s a Happy Halloween for this horror author! Currently my publisher, Leisure Books has Covenant on sale across all the e-platforms for Halloween, so hopefully a lot of new readers will…

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Hardcover edition of SIREN!

THIS WAS A GOOD week for books! While I was up in Canada for a business trip, I met editor James Roy Daley, who gave me a copy of the new anthology Best New Zombie Tales Vol. 2, which includes a story of mine (“Camille Smiled”, that originally appeared in…

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The Toronto Horror Irregulars

HORROR WRITERS ARE a strange, rare and wonderfully twisted breed. Ten years ago, I attended my first World Horror Convention in Denver — a total newbie. I didn’t have a book released, and didn’t know anybody in the genre, really, except through e-mail. But I met people there over the…

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SIREN on MSNBC!

MY NEW NOVEL, Siren, got some nice cover play on an MSNBC video news report today! Unfortunately, the news report was about the rise of e-publishing and the consequent death of the mass market paperback line of my publisher, Leisure Books, (SIREN was the last mass market book they published),…

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Dragon*Con 2010

I’M OFF IN THE MORNING to drive down to Atlanta for Dragon*Con 2010.  If you’re going to this phenomenal SF/F/H fan convention, I hope you’ll come by one of my panels or my autographing session and say hi! I have to admit it’s with somewhat mixed emotions that I pack…

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“Letting Go” read in Polish!

I WAS PRETTY psyched this week when Replika, my Polish translation publisher sent me a link to a YouTube performance of my short story “Letting Go”…  in Polish. It sounds great — now if I just understood what the reader was saying ? Check the audio reading out now via YouTube….

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San Francisco

I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS about this city, but something here calls to me. I’ve spent more time here than almost anywhere besides my home in Chicago, some by choice, some for work. I’ve set two novels just north of here, and a short story that I wrote about…

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SIREN! Contest! Tour!

MY FOURTH NOVEL, Siren, is now available in mass market paperback as a featured August release from Leisure Books! I’d say it’s “available in bookstores everywhere” as I have with my previous novel releases, however, as it’s turned out… that’s not quite the case. It is available through bookstores everywhere,…

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