TAXIS ONLY SHOW UP early when you’re not ready. Otherwise, they’re late when you really need to be… on the road! This morning, my cab was early. He sat in the drive as I pulled my son’s socks on for him since mom was in the shower, gulped a half…
Let the tour begin… LAST WEEKEND, I sent out a hurried edition of my e-newsletter as I was heading out to be an author guest at Zombie Con X in Milwaukee where the paperback edition of The 13TH debuted.  If you’re not a subscriber to the monthly update, you can join here:…
OK. IT’S ALL ABOUT to get crazy again. Tomorrow I’m off to Milwaukee for the weekend to guest at ZombieConX… which will also serve as the launchpad for the mass market paperback release of The 13th. Leisure Books shipped the first box, hot of the press, directly to the hotel… so…
ON FEBRUARY 2, 2009, I started writing my fourth novel, Siren, in my usual “writing night” haunt at Rizzo’s in Naperville, IL. Six months later, on August 3rd, I finished the final chapter in my usual spot – booth #11 – at Rizzo’s. In between were many writing nights at…
YESTERDAY, A FEW BLOCKS from where I work, a convicted armed robber escaped from his escort on the way to a court sentencing. The guy changed clothes with one of his former guards, hijacked a car and then ditched it not far away — in the parking lot next to the…
FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND asked me a bunch of questions… and I gave bunch of answers! They just posted the results of the interview here: 2018 Note – this blog used to link to the interview, but it is no longer available on the Famous Monsters site. I’ve posted an…
LINCOLN CRISLER POSTED a funny and flattering review of Sacrifice on his blog today. He’s a little “pissed off” at how it ends, and closes his review by wishing me flat beer forever if I’m not working on a sequel LOL. (I do have one in mind, but it’s not…
SO I JUST HAPPENED on the Facebook page of the Fatally-Yours.com site tonight and found this newly posted review of my novel Sacrifice. It was too good not to share because I’m hoping a lot of horror fans will ultimately check this book out. I’m really proud of it, and…
THIS WAS A reallllllly good mail day! I’ve been waiting for weeks for my copies of the Polish edition of Sacrifice to hit my doorstep (known across the water as Ofiara). I have asked my wife dozens of times on the phone while at work: Hey, is there a box from…
BACK AT THE END of April, when I started visiting bookstores and doing signings to promote my novel Sacrifice, I had this idea that I would blog every week about the tour, post pictures, produce kind of a travelogue… Yeah. That didn’t happen. In early May, I chronicled week one…
