YESTERDAY, IT WAS ANNOUNCED that the latest title from Dark Arts Books – Like A Chinese Tattoo – was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Needless to say, Bill Breedlove and myself – the founders of Dark Arts Books – are more than pleased! The Bram…
YESTERDAY, I TURNED 43. I haven’t cared much about birthday parties for a long time, but yesterday — I think I had one of the best ones of my life! It wasn’t really a “party” per se, but rather a movie night with a couple friends that I went to…
FOR THOSE WHO aren’t already subscribed to my John Everson ~ Dark Arts e-Newsletter, I wanted to let you know — I sent out the March edition of the newsletter this morning, and I’m running a contest for my subscribers to win a free signed copy of Sacrifice next month when…
THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK is back on my home page: there are now less than 60 days until the official release date of my second novel, Sacrifice! If you’re anxious, you can pre-order the book through Amazon, Books A Million, Borders and Barnes & Noble sites — or check in with…
OK, WE ALREADY KNEW that Muzak was bankrupt of musical value, but now they’re actually bankrupt! Maybe the recession has some positive value: Muzak files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
NOSSA MORTE launched its February issue this weekend, and it includes a new interview with me. Senior Editor, Michael De Kler, asked me a bunch of questions about formative influences, my longstanding creative relationship with Delirium Books, my upcoming Leisure Books novels Sacrifice and The 13th and more. The issue also includes fiction…
I’VE NOT EVER KEPT it a secret that if given the choice, I’d relocate to Austin or San Francisco in a heartbeat. They are my two favorite cities in the U.S. So you can imagine how happy I’ve been for the past five days since I got to run a business meeting…
EVERY YEAR, A GRASSROOTS group puts on the “Preditors and Editors” poll via the Internet and does a broad tally of bookloving fans on what books and stories they liked over the previous year. The P&E poll is a quick one — open for just the first two weeks of January. My…
2008 IS GONE. I’ll miss it. But 2009 is shaping up to be a great year too. Leisure Books will be releasing my second novel Sacrifice at the end of April, while my third novel, The 13th, will be issued in a limited hardcover edition from Necro Publications this spring…
FOR THE PAST 20 years around New Year’s Eve, I’ve published a “Best of the Year” summation of my favorite albums released that year in my weekly Pop Stops column. Last year was the first time that list didn’t appear in print in The Star Newspapers and/or the Illinois Entertainer…
