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VIOLET EYES and THE FAMILY TREE are on a 99 Cent Sale on Amazon!

THIS WEEK, THERE’S a big 99 cent e-book promotion to “re-launch” the new editions of my 7th novel, Violet Eyes and my 8th novel The Family Tree, now that they both have new covers and are published by Dark Arts Books. Violet Eyes, is an ode to the “Creature Features” movies I used to watch as a kid. Spiders. Flies… creepy cocoons…. It’s an apocalyptic bug sci-fi thriller!

Violet Eyes was featured on the BookSends e-newsletter yesterday, on the EReaderNews Today newsletter today and will be promoted on the BookBub e-newsletter tomorrow. I’m hopeful that a whole new army of readers checks out the story of Rachel and the violet-eyed spiders and flies that she battles in this novel!

Check it out for 99 cents here:

https://www.amazon.com/Violet-Eyes-John-Everson-ebook/dp/B01N4TBJEK/

While Violet Eyes is getting the “front-and-center” promo push this week, I’ve also got The Family Tree on sale for 99 cents and I’m hoping more people will enjoy this erotic horror novel thanks to the sale. This is my take on the classic plot of “what if a guy inherits a backwoods inn and finds out about the real dark secret history of his family.”

The Family Tree features seductive femme fatales, a fountain of youth and a basement full of roots and bones… Check it out for 99 cents here:

https://www.amazon.com/Family-Tree-John-Everson-ebook/dp/B01N4MCONU

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Pinball at the ‘Zoo… 2

What an awesome weekend! Shaun and I drove 3 hours up to Kalamazoo, Michigan on Friday to hang at the Pinball At The ‘Zoo convention. My friend Brad Czernik had talked about the con for years to me, and so Shaun and I went last year for a day… but this year was even better, because Shaun was a little older and we stayed a little longer.

We started our time in Kalamazoo Friday night with an awesome dinner at Bell’s Brewery’s “Eccentric Cafe” (housed in the original Bell’s brewery building), where Shaun tried poutine for the first time, and then played a few hours of pinball before calling it a – not-early – night (we’d both woken up around 5 a.m. and didn’t go to bed until after midnight).

On Saturday, we were at the Kalamazoo Expo Center bright and early (after a trip for Sweetwater’s Donuts with our friends Brad, Christian and Levi Czernik.

I got Shaun a con shirt and found a Sorcerer pin that was fun to compare the play-feel to ours (ours is in a little better condition and has LEDs instead of incandescent lights).

We ended up playing pinball for over 12 hours yesterday, thanks to a post-convention trip to our friend Mike Schudel‘s house (huge thanks for a great time, Mike!)! Ironically, given that it was “Record Store Day” I found a bunch of old LP album cover cutouts at the soda pop booth at the convention (LP covers of Smithereens, Device, Fogerty, Katrina and the Waves, The The and more…) which I’ll display in my basement music room. So I bought no records on Record Store day… but I bought record covers!

Over the course of the day I logged a LOT of time on some of my favorite machines — Stargazer, Galaxy, Meteor, Elvira’s Scared Stiff, The Machine: Bride of Pinbot, Attack From Mars and many others! Shaun played in the Youth Pinball tournament at the convention center, and also played his fill of his favorites, Medieval Madness and Godzilla.

We slept in this morning (two days of pinball will wipe you out!), and then hit Anna’s House, the same breakfast place (under a different name!) that we ate at last year before heading out of town and back to non-pin reality.

More pix of some of our favorite machines and moments from the weekend:

Pinball at the ‘Zoo… 2

What an awesome weekend! Shaun and I drove 3 hours up to Kalamazoo, Michigan on Friday to hang at the Pinball At The ‘Zoo convention. My friend Brad Czernik had talked about the con for years to me, and so Shaun and I went last year for a day… but this year was even better, because Shaun was a little older and we stayed a little longer.

We started our time in Kalamazoo Friday night with an awesome dinner at Bell’s Brewery’s “Eccentric Cafe” (housed in the original Bell’s brewery building), where Shaun tried poutine for the first time, and then played a few hours of pinball before calling it a – not-early – night (we’d both woken up around 5 a.m. and didn’t go to bed until after midnight).

On Saturday, we were at the Kalamazoo Expo Center bright and early (after a trip for Sweetwater’s Donuts with our friends Brad, Christian and Levi Czernik.

I got Shaun a con shirt and found a Sorcerer pin that was fun to compare the play-feel to ours (ours is in a little better condition and has LEDs instead of incandescent lights).

We ended up playing pinball for over 12 hours yesterday, thanks to a post-convention trip to our friend Mike Schudel‘s house (huge thanks for a great time, Mike!)! Ironically, given that it was “Record Store Day” I found a bunch of old LP album cover cutouts at the soda pop booth at the convention (LP covers of Smithereens, Device, Fogerty, Katrina and the Waves, The The and more…) which I’ll display in my basement music room. So I bought no records on Record Store day… but I bought record covers!

Over the course of the day I logged a LOT of time on some of my favorite machines — Stargazer, Galaxy, Meteor, Elvira’s Scared Stiff, The Machine: Bride of Pinbot, Attack From Mars and many others! Shaun played in the Youth Pinball tournament at the convention center, and also played his fill of his favorites, Medieval Madness and Godzilla.

We slept in this morning (two days of pinball will wipe you out!), and then hit Anna’s House, the same breakfast place (under a different name!) that we ate at last year before heading out of town and back to non-pin reality.

More pix of some of our favorite machines and moments from the weekend:

Pinball at the ‘Zoo… 2

WHAT AN AWESOME WEEKEND weekend! Shaun and I drove 3 hours up to Kalamazoo, Michigan on Friday to hang at the Pinball At The ‘Zoo convention. My friend Brad Czernik had talked about the con for years to me, and so Shaun and I went last year for a day… but this year was even better, because Shaun was a little older and we stayed a little longer.

We started our time in Kalamazoo Friday night with an awesome dinner at Bell’s Brewery’s “Eccentric Cafe” (housed in the original Bell’s brewery building), where Shaun tried poutine for the first time, and then played a few hours of pinball before calling it a – not-early – night (we’d both woken up around 5 a.m. and didn’t go to bed until after midnight).

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On Saturday, we were at the Kalamazoo Expo Center bright and early (after a trip for Sweetwater’s Donuts with our friends Brad, Christian and Levi Czernik.

I got Shaun a con shirt and found a Sorcerer pin that was fun to compare the play-feel to ours (ours is in a little better condition and has LEDs instead of incandescent lights).

We ended up playing pinball for over 12 hours yesterday, thanks to a post-convention trip to our friend Mike Schudel‘s house (huge thanks for a great time, Mike!)! Ironically, given that it was “Record Store Day” I found a bunch of old LP album cover cutouts at the soda pop booth at the convention (LP covers of Smithereens, Device, Fogerty, Katrina and the Waves, The The and more…) which I’ll display in my basement music room. So I bought no records on Record Store day… but I bought record covers!

Over the course of the day I logged a LOT of time on some of my favorite machines — Stargazer, Galaxy, Meteor, Elvira’s Scared Stiff, The Machine: Bride of Pinbot, Attack From Mars and many others! Shaun played in the Youth Pinball tournament at the convention center, and also played his fill of his favorites, Medieval Madness and Godzilla.

 

We slept in this morning (two days of pinball will wipe you out!), and then hit Anna’s House, the same breakfast place (under a different name!) that we ate at last year before heading out of town and back to non-pin reality.

More pix of some of our favorite machines and moments from the weekend:

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BACK IN PRINT: NightWhere, Violet Eyes, The Family Tree and Sacrificing Virgins

My four books for Samhain Publishing are, at last, fully back in print — three of them with new cover art!

At the start of January, Samhain, my publisher of the past six years, began to close up shop (they’re now fully out-of-business).  That took my last four releases temporarily out-of-print. I decided to re-issue them on my own imprint, Dark Arts Books, which has been publishing other people’s work — from Jay Bonansinga, Sarah Pinborough and Martin Mundt to J.A. Konrath, Michael Marshall Smith and Brian Pinkerton — since 2006. Why give my catalog to another small publishing label, when I already had my own? (No big imprint was going to take a handful of “old” books and reissue them with any big distribution… so why not just DIY?)

The new e-book editions were all available by the end of January, but it took me a bit longer to do the paperbacks. I love print book layout (desktop publishing is how I started my professional career) but it takes longer to do. And I kept futzing on little color tweaks on the covers, so I ended up ordering a couple different versions from the printer of each book (and each time you do that, it killed a week for printing and mailing!).

In any case… I got the final edition of Violet Eyes this week, so I can now firmly say that NightWhere, Violet Eyes, The Family Tree and Sacrificing Virgins are fully “back in print” and available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble!  I also finally updated the e-book, print and audio book links on my website’s Books page.

Here’s what the new wrap-around covers look like (click to see large versions!):

PAPERBACK: AMAZON.COM | BARNES & NOBLE

PAPERBACK: AMAZON.COM | BARNES & NOBLE

PAPERBACK: AMAZON.COM | BARNES & NOBLE

While I opted to go with new covers for the previous three books to get them closer to my original vision for them, I went ahead and licensed the original cover art for Sacrificing Virgins, since it was made by Samhain exactly to my original specs. The text treatment on the cover did change a little — new blurbs on the front and back and a slightly different spine:

PAPERBACK: AMAZON.COM | BARNES & NOBLE

Hoping that readers will respond well to the new covers! I still have some copies of the original NightWhere and Family Tree editions, so I’ll be putting the old and the new editions out side-by-side at conventions over the coming year. It will be interesting to see which sell through faster!

Everson’s Watery Eye Spicy Stir Fry!

I HAVE BEEN making stir fry dishes since I was in college. Back then, it was partly for affordability. You could throw together a bunch of cheap ingredients and eat for days. But… if it’s done right, a good stir fry is a fairly healthy flavor explosion. Out of all the things I cook, it’s one of the things I love the most, and honestly, I’ve never had anything like the way I make it in a restaurant. And if you’ve scored some good hot peppers, the taste will make you cry from both joy and heat.

The recipe shifts a little, depending on what’s in the fridge, but there are a few constants — there are always a lot of peppers, onions, fresh ginger, and bacon and eggs. One of the keys, to me,  is to have a large electric fryer, so that you can cook all of the veggies evenly and quickly without making them too soggy. I’ve got an electric wok… but I’ve always preferred the long rectangular fryer. I have also found that, while it makes more dishes, it’s useful to chop everything and have it ready in separate bowls prior to getting too far into the cooking process… chopping always takes longer than you expect!

Here’s how I do it:

Watery Eye Spicy Stir Fry

Prep Time: About an hour

INGREDIENTS:

1 Sweet Red Pepper (you can add green Bell Pepper too, but you need the sweet red)
2-3 large Jalapenos (the more visible veins, the better)
2 Serrano Peppers
1 Gypsy or Hot Banana Pepper
1-2 extra-large Sweet Onions
1 small Zucchini
2 arms of Broccoli
1 branch of fresh Ginger
1 stalk of Lemongrass, cut into one-inch segments
2-3 Green Onions
4-6 fresh White Mushrooms (fresh)
1 bunch of fresh Cilantro
5 strips of bacon
2 large eggs
2 cups uncooked white Jasmine Rice
3-4 tablespoons Vegetable Oil
3-4 tablespoons of Soy Sauce
3-4 tablespoons Spicy Stir Fry Sauce
Dash of salt

VARIANTS: You can add yellow and orange Bell Peppers to augment the “sweet” and you can add Thai Hot Peppers, Fingerhots or Habaneros to increase the “heat.” But you should always have Red Bell Pepper and Jalapenos as the base. Adding fresh pea pods and bok choi is never a bad thing.  If you’re not a fan, you can skip the broccoli or the mushrooms and it won’t change the taste much. I usually have a bag of mixed frozen diced carrots, beans, peas and corn in the freezer and I’ll sometimes toss a couple handfuls of that into the mix. You can also dice up and add chicken or pork to augment the “meat” portion, though I honestly like it best simply with bacon.

DIRECTIONS:

On the stove, combine two cups of uncooked rice with 4 cups water. Add a dash of salt, a tablespoon of vegetable oil and 2 or 3 one-inch sections of the lemongrass branch (you don’t strictly need the lemongrass, but it does give a nice flavor to your rice). Bring the water to a boil and then simmer covered for 15-20 minutes until the water has been absorbed. When the rice is done, turn off the heat and leave covered until you need it.

Dice the onion, and slice the zucchini, broccoli and mushrooms. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of broccoli, so I don’t use much… but I put it in in a vague nod to nutrition. Eat your broccoli.

Put the chopped veggies in a bowl or bowls (depending on how anal you are! I keep each ingredient in its own container until I’m ready for it.)

Scrape the skin off of the ginger branch, and then slice the flesh. I usually slice the ginger into 1/2 inch narrow strips. Set to the side.

Slice the peppers to your preference (I chop the jalapenos and serranos so that they are in “circle” sections, and the larger peppers I cut in strips, and usually then cut the strips in half ). Do not strip and discard the seeds, but leave them in the pepper slices… they will provide the heat!

Rinse and chop the green onions and the cilantro.

In a large electric frying pan (I usually have the temperature set between 300-350), begin frying the bacon strips. As the bacon cooks, combine the eggs in a glass and whisk with a fork until the yolk and white are well mixed. You can add a splash of milk to it too if you want (fluffier eggs). When the bacon is beginning to get crispy on the edges, push it to one side and pour in the egg. Scramble the egg, and then remove both the bacon and egg to a plate.

Add the remainder of the vegetable oil to the bacon grease, and pour in the onion. Saute for a couple minutes until the edges begin to yellow, then add the rest of the vegetables. Stir for 10 minutes or so, at least partially covered (helps cook the veggies faster and keeps the oil from spitting).

Chop up the bacon and then add the bacon and eggs back to the pan, adding the  soy sauce and stir fry sauce.

Once all the vegetables are tender (but not too soggy!) add in the rice and… stir it in until most of the white has been coated with the sauces. You can serve almost immediately, or leave it sit on low heat for awhile until your hungry mob is ready.

And that’s it. Prepare to have your tastebuds dance. And if you were generous with your peppers, maybe shed a tear.

Everson’s Watery Eye Spicy Stir Fry!

I HAVE BEEN making stir fry dishes since I was in college. Back then, it was partly for affordability. You could throw together a bunch of cheap ingredients and eat for days. But… if it’s done right, a good stir fry is a fairly healthy flavor explosion. Out of all the things I cook, it’s one of the things I love the most, and honestly, I’ve never had anything like the way I make it in a restaurant. And if you’ve scored some good hot peppers, the taste will make you cry from both joy and heat.

The recipe shifts a little, depending on what’s in the fridge, but there are a few constants — there are always a lot of peppers, onions, fresh ginger, and bacon and eggs. One of the keys, to me,  is to have a large electric fryer, so that you can cook all of the veggies evenly and quickly without making them too soggy. I’ve got an electric wok… but I’ve always preferred the long rectangular fryer. I have also found that, while it makes more dishes, it’s useful to chop everything and have it ready in separate bowls prior to getting too far into the cooking process… chopping always takes longer than you expect!

Here’s how I do it:

Watery Eye Spicy Stir Fry

Prep Time: About an hour

INGREDIENTS:

1 Sweet Red Pepper (you can add green Bell Pepper too, but you need the sweet red)
2-3 large Jalapenos (the more visible veins, the better)
2 Serrano Peppers
1 Gypsy or Hot Banana Pepper
1-2 extra-large Sweet Onions
1 small Zucchini
2 arms of Broccoli
1 branch of fresh Ginger
1 stalk of Lemongrass, cut into one-inch segments
2-3 Green Onions
4-6 fresh White Mushrooms (fresh)
1 bunch of fresh Cilantro
5 strips of bacon
2 large eggs
2 cups uncooked white Jasmine Rice
3-4 tablespoons Vegetable Oil
3-4 tablespoons of Soy Sauce
3-4 tablespoons Spicy Stir Fry Sauce
Dash of salt

VARIANTS: You can add yellow and orange Bell Peppers to augment the “sweet” and you can add Thai Hot Peppers, Fingerhots or Habaneros to increase the “heat.” But you should always have Red Bell Pepper and Jalapenos as the base. Adding fresh pea pods and bok choi is never a bad thing.  If you’re not a fan, you can skip the broccoli or the mushrooms and it won’t change the taste much. I usually have a bag of mixed frozen diced carrots, beans, peas and corn in the freezer and I’ll sometimes toss a couple handfuls of that into the mix. You can also dice up and add chicken or pork to augment the “meat” portion, though I honestly like it best simply with bacon.

DIRECTIONS:

On the stove, combine two cups of uncooked rice with 4 cups water. Add a dash of salt, a tablespoon of vegetable oil and 2 or 3 one-inch sections of the lemongrass branch (you don’t strictly need the lemongrass, but it does give a nice flavor to your rice). Bring the water to a boil and then simmer covered for 15-20 minutes until the water has been absorbed. When the rice is done, turn off the heat and leave covered until you need it.

Dice the onion, and slice the zucchini, broccoli and mushrooms. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of broccoli, so I don’t use much… but I put it in in a vague nod to nutrition. Eat your broccoli.

Put the chopped veggies in a bowl or bowls (depending on how anal you are! I keep each ingredient in its own container until I’m ready for it.)

Scrape the skin off of the ginger branch, and then slice the flesh. I usually slice the ginger into 1/2 inch narrow strips. Set to the side.

Slice the peppers to your preference (I chop the jalapenos and serranos so that they are in “circle” sections, and the larger peppers I cut in strips, and usually then cut the strips in half ). Do not strip and discard the seeds, but leave them in the pepper slices… they will provide the heat!

Rinse and chop the green onions and the cilantro.

In a large electric frying pan (I usually have the temperature set between 300-350), begin frying the bacon strips. As the bacon cooks, combine the eggs in a glass and whisk with a fork until the yolk and white are well mixed. You can add a splash of milk to it too if you want (fluffier eggs). When the bacon is beginning to get crispy on the edges, push it to one side and pour in the egg. Scramble the egg, and then remove both the bacon and egg to a plate.

Add the remainder of the vegetable oil to the bacon grease, and pour in the onion. Saute for a couple minutes until the edges begin to yellow, then add the rest of the vegetables. Stir for 10 minutes or so, at least partially covered (helps cook the veggies faster and keeps the oil from spitting).

Chop up the bacon and then add the bacon and eggs back to the pan, adding the  soy sauce and stir fry sauce.

Once all the vegetables are tender (but not too soggy!) add in the rice and… stir it in until most of the white has been coated with the sauces. You can serve almost immediately, or leave it sit on low heat for awhile until your hungry mob is ready.

And that’s it. Prepare to have your tastebuds dance. And if you were generous with your peppers, maybe shed a tear.

Everson’s Watery Eye Spicy Stir Fry!

I HAVE BEEN MAKING stir fry dishes since I was in college. Back then, it was partly for affordability. You could throw together a bunch of cheap ingredients and eat for days. But… if it’s done right, a good stir fry is a fairly healthy flavor explosion. Out of all the things I cook, it’s one of the things I love the most, and honestly, I’ve never had anything like the way I make it in a restaurant. And if you’ve scored some good hot peppers, the taste will make you cry from both joy and heat.

The recipe shifts a little, depending on what’s in the fridge, but there are a few constants — there are always a lot of peppers, onions, fresh ginger, and bacon and eggs. One of the keys, to me,  is to have a large electric fryer, so that you can cook all of the veggies evenly and quickly without making them too soggy. I’ve got an electric wok… but I’ve always preferred the long rectangular fryer. I have also found that, while it makes more dishes, it’s useful to chop everything and have it ready in separate bowls prior to getting too far into the cooking process… chopping always takes longer than you expect!

Here’s how I do it:

Watery Eye Spicy Stir Fry

Prep Time: About an hour

 

 

INGREDIENTS:

1 Sweet Red Pepper (you can add green Bell Pepper too, but you need the sweet red)
2-3 large Jalapenos (the more visible veins, the better)
2 Serrano Peppers
1 Gypsy or Hot Banana Pepper
1-2 extra-large Sweet Onions
1 small Zucchini
2 arms of Broccoli
1 branch of fresh Ginger
1 stalk of Lemongrass, cut into one-inch segments
2-3 Green Onions
4-6 fresh White Mushrooms (fresh)
1 bunch of fresh Cilantro
5 strips of bacon
2 large eggs
2 cups uncooked white Jasmine Rice
3-4 tablespoons Vegetable Oil
3-4 tablespoons of Soy Sauce
3-4 tablespoons Spicy Stir Fry Sauce
Dash of salt

VARIANTS: You can add yellow and orange Bell Peppers to augment the “sweet” and you can add Thai Hot Peppers, Fingerhots or Habaneros to increase the “heat.” But you should always have Red Bell Pepper and Jalapenos as the base. Adding fresh pea pods and bok choi is never a bad thing.  If you’re not a fan, you can skip the broccoli or the mushrooms and it won’t change the taste much. I usually have a bag of mixed frozen diced carrots, beans, peas and corn in the freezer and I’ll sometimes toss a couple handfuls of that into the mix. You can also dice up and add chicken or pork to augment the “meat” portion, though I honestly like it best simply with bacon.

DIRECTIONS:

On the stove, combine two cups of uncooked rice with 4 cups water. Add a dash of salt, a tablespoon of vegetable oil and 2 or 3 one-inch sections of the lemongrass branch (you don’t strictly need the lemongrass, but it does give a nice flavor to your rice). Bring the water to a boil and then simmer covered for 15-20 minutes until the water has been absorbed. When the rice is done, turn off the heat and leave covered until you need it.

Dice the onion, and slice the zucchini, broccoli and mushrooms. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of broccoli, so I don’t use much… but I put it in in a vague nod to nutrition. Eat your broccoli.

Put the chopped veggies in a bowl or bowls (depending on how anal you are! I keep each ingredient in its own container until I’m ready for it.)

Scrape the skin off of the ginger branch, and then slice the flesh. I usually slice the ginger into 1/2 inch narrow strips. Set to the side.

Slice the peppers to your preference (I chop the jalapenos and serranos so that they are in “circle” sections, and the larger peppers I cut in strips, and usually then cut the strips in half ). Do not strip and discard the seeds, but leave them in the pepper slices… they will provide the heat!

Rinse and chop the green onions and the cilantro.

In a large electric frying pan (I usually have the temperature set between 300-350), begin frying the bacon strips. As the bacon cooks, combine the eggs in a glass and whisk with a fork until the yolk and white are well mixed. You can add a splash of milk to it too if you want (fluffier eggs). When the bacon is beginning to get crispy on the edges, push it to one side and pour in the egg. Scramble the egg, and then remove both the bacon and egg to a plate.

Add the remainder of the vegetable oil to the bacon grease, and pour in the onion. Saute for a couple minutes until the edges begin to yellow, then add the rest of the vegetables. Stir for 10 minutes or so, at least partially covered (helps cook the veggies faster and keeps the oil from spitting).

Chop up the bacon and then add the bacon and eggs back to the pan, adding the  soy sauce and stir fry sauce.

Once all the vegetables are tender (but not too soggy!) add in the rice and… stir it in until most of the white has been coated with the sauces. You can serve almost immediately, or leave it sit on low heat for awhile until your hungry mob is ready.

And that’s it. Prepare to have your tastebuds dance. And if you were generous with your peppers, maybe shed a tear.

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BACK IN PRINT: NightWhere, Violet Eyes, The Family Tree and Sacrificing Virgins

MY FOUR BOOKS FOR Samhain Publishing are, at last, fully back in print — three of them with new cover art!

       

At the start of January, Samhain, my publisher of the past six years, began to close up shop (they’re now fully out-of-business).  That took my last four releases temporarily out-of-print. I decided to re-issue them on my own imprint, Dark Arts Books, which has been publishing other people’s work — from Jay Bonansinga, Sarah Pinborough and Martin Mundt to J.A. Konrath, Michael Marshall Smith and Brian Pinkerton — since 2006. Why give my catalog to another small publishing label, when I already had my own? (No big imprint was going to take a handful of “old” books and reissue them with any big distribution… so why not just DIY?)

The new e-book editions were all available by the end of January, but it took me a bit longer to do the paperbacks. I love print book layout (desktop publishing is how I started my professional career) but it takes longer to do. And I kept futzing on little color tweaks on the covers, so I ended up ordering a couple different versions from the printer of each book (and each time you do that, it killed a week for printing and mailing!).

In any case… I got the final edition of Violet Eyes this week, so I can now firmly say that NightWhere, Violet Eyes, The Family Tree and Sacrificing Virgins are fully “back in print” and available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble!  I also finally updated the e-book, print and audio book links on my website’s Books page.

Here’s what the new wrap-around covers look like:

PAPERBACK: AMAZON.COM | BARNES & NOBLE

 

PAPERBACK: AMAZON.COM | BARNES & NOBLE

 

PAPERBACK: AMAZON.COM | BARNES & NOBLE

 

While I opted to go with new covers for the previous three books to get them closer to my original vision for them, I went ahead and licensed the original cover art for Sacrificing Virgins, since it was made by Samhain exactly to my original specs. The text treatment on the cover did change a little — new blurbs on the front and back and a slightly different spine:

PAPERBACK: AMAZON.COM | BARNES & NOBLE

Hoping that readers will respond well to the new covers! I still have some copies of the original NightWhere and Family Tree editions, so I’ll be putting the old and the new editions out side-by-side at conventions over the coming year. It will be interesting to see which sell through faster!

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Le Pacte Des Suicides (COVENANT) wins the Masterton Award in France!

YESTERDAY, I WAS SURPRISED (and pleased!) to learn that the translation edition of my first novel, Covenant, won the Masterton Award in France!

Translated by Thomas Bauduret and released in France by Riviere Blanche as Le Pacte Des Suicides, the novel was chosen in the Translated Novels category.

The Masterton Awards recognize excellence in publications in French “fantastic” literature. Previous winners in the translation category include Joe Hill, China Miéville, Gary Braunbeck, José Carlos Somoza, Isaka Kotaro, Jack Ketchum, Guillermo Del Toro and more.

The award announcement site is here:

http://masterton.noosfere.org/index.php/laureats/

A translation of the announcement post reads:

The members of the jury of the Prix Masterton have the immense pleasure to announce the winners of this year.

French novels

Emmanuel Delporte: Stalingrad, editions the drunk-book

Novels translated

John Everson: The Covenant of Suicide, Editions White River (translated by Thomas Bauduret)

New

Anthology Dark Felines, luciferines editions

It was certainly an unexpected honor, but I hope it will help new readers to discover the French edition of Covenant.

Le Pacte Des Suicides is available in France through Riviere Blanche here:

http://www.riviereblanche.com/collection-noire-n86-le-pacte-des-suicides.html

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