The Horribly Slow Murderer

I PROBABLY won’t get to posting about the second half of my San Francisco trip for a bit, but in the meantime, here is perhaps the best horror movie trailer that isn’t a trailer of all time: Thanks to Jeff Strand for finding and poaching this first!

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Taxi Confessions & Aural Loss

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…

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A SIREN, a Brick Path and a Shed…

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…

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Under Siege!

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…

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Famous Monsters Interview!

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…

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Crisler wishes me flat beer!

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…

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Fatally Yours thrills to SACRIFICE!

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…

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OFIARA + THE 13TH Flats!

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…

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SACRIFICE Tour: Wrapping Up!

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…

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