TODAY WAS HALLOWEEN, one of my favorite days of the year, since everyone celebrates the “strange” in their own ways. I took a day off work today, mainly so that I could go Trick or Treating with my son Shaun, the ultimate “Angry Bird.” When 4 p.m. came, we headed…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! Every year, I try to offer some kind of free story for the holiday, and this year, I’ve gotten permission from the publisher to post, at least for a short time, the short story that inspired my fifth novel, The Pumpkin Man. Originally written back in 2006 as a…
YESTERDAY THE SONY e-Bookstore sent out an e-newsletter promoting Spooky Reads for the season, and I was psyched that they featured The Pumpkin Man. It was especially cool since they placed it right there next to a Jonathan Maberry novel (and Jonathan gave me a great blurb for the novel)….
TONIGHT IS THE Chicago launch party for my fifth novel The Pumpkin Man at the appropriately titled Bucket O’ Blood Books and Records in Chicago. I’m really looking forward to reading tonight (in just about 4 hours as I write this!), as well as hearing my fellow authors Cynthia Pelayo…
SO I HAVE TO SAY I was pretty disappointed this week to learn that the new Newcastle seasonal brew — Werewolf “Blood Red Ale” — wasn’t manufactured in enough quantity to last through Halloween. I mean… shouldn’t you drink a Werewolf next weekend? Not unless you hoarded some away in…
IT’S OCTOBER, and that means… The Pumpkin Man is coming! Actually, The Pumpkin Man is here. You can see it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Dorchester, etc. I received my copies of the trade paperback on Friday, and they look great! My fifth novel started shipping to bookstores early last…
YOU NEED TO freeze-frame and full-screen the video to see it, but the other day Verizon launched a new iPad 2 TV commercial… and the e-book at the top right of the iPad that the user holds while demo-ing the e-reading capabilities of the tablet is none other than my…
I LOVE ROADTRIPS. For a couple years, I did a lot of them, since when my first few novels were released, I drove to Cincinnati, Nashville, St. Louis, Indianapolis and even Atlanta to do bookstore signings. Over the past year, with changes in the book industry and the collapse of…
SO FOR YEARS NOW, I’ve heard about how I should go to Flashback Weekend, a horror media con held out in Rosemont, IL (not far from where I work). For one reason or another, I’ve never ended up going, but this year, Mitch Wells, from The Horror Society.com offered to…
TODAY – JULY 23RD – marked the 23rd year of marriage to my wife Geri. It’s hard to believe all the twists and turns life has brought over those years (not to mention through the five years of dating before July 23, 1988). Three houses, apartments, vacations, fights, fun, the…
