I HOPE EVERYONE has a great Valentine’s Day weekend — sharing the joy that only romantic love can bring. While I don’t quite buy The Beatles’ “Love is all you need” sentiment, love is pretty high up there on the list. My son was busy this week making Valentines for…
 AS I SIT DOWN to write this, in just a few minutes, the ball will drop in New York, signalling the end of 2013. How did 12 months slip by so fast? 2013 was the year that we lost one of my personal heroes, Roger Ebert. He was a Chicago…
CHRISTMAS IS THE TIME to celebrate your family and friends. It’s a time to remember and rekindle. It’s my favorite time of the year, not because of gifts, but because it’s when you get together with friends and relatives who you might not see often, if at all, during the…
EVERY YEAR, I POST a little Christmas cheer on my website – visit my Christmas page for some holiday wallpaper, a special book deal and to hear a holiday song I wrote and recorded with a band several years ago. You can also listen to a demo song that inspired…
YOU KNOW WHEN you read a review that begins with the line “Welcome back to our ongoing dissection of the putrescent pile of bat guano…” that it’s going to be a must-read review. I mean… there’s no question WHERE the review is headed, but it’s obviously going to be a…
I’VE HAD A BLAST this week participating in my 3rd Coffin Hop! Over the course of this week, we’ve talked about nothing, spiders, horror movies, horror books, jack-o-lanterns, costumes, and visited the PumpkinMan Ouija board… and everyone who posted to one of those blogs was entered into a daily contest,…
TODAY IS HALLOWEEN! The big day! And the final day of the Coffin Hop! I hope you’ve scored some goodies on the various blogs participating on the Hop so far! So far, Sandy Czernik, Lori Parker, Kate, Sheila Halterman, Lionel Green and Meli K. have won e-book copies of Violet…
TODAY IS WEDNESDAY… It’s Halloween Eve and the the seventh day of the Coffin Hop! I hope you’ve scored some goodies on the various blogs participating in the sites on the Hop so far! I entered a couple contests myself last night. So far, Sandy Czernik, Lori Parker, Kate, Sheila…
TUESDAY… THE SIXTH DAY of the Coffin Hop! I hope you’ve scored some goodies on the various blogs participating in the Hop so far! So far, Sandy Czernik, Lori Parker, Kate and Sheila Halterman have won e-book copies of Violet Lagoon on drawings here the past few nights. Yesterday, we talked…
MONDAY… THE FIFTH DAY of the Coffin Hop! I hope you’ve scored some goodies on the various blogs participating in the Hop so far! So far, Sandy Czernik, Lori Parker and Kate have won e-book copies of Violet Lagoon on drawings here the past few nights. Over the weekend, I watched…
