John Everson's Blog, page 31
May 1, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01
April 30, 2011
~ Tweets for April 2011
Don't miss the pre-order sale for SWALLOWED BY THE CRACKS, the new Dark Arts Books anthology launching at WHC: http://www.darkartsbooks.com #
Hello Nashville. Goodbye Nashville. #ReallyTightConnectingFlights #
And so my manic 24-hour trip to Boca Raton ends! Wish I could've hung at the beach, but instead I'm on a runway again. Chicago, here I come! #
OK, gluttony is over… Time to write about mowing down the Living Dead for a couple hours. #
Good tip from my Boca Raton Dubliners bartender that holds true – Goodall's Irish Steak Sauce on Bangers and Mash could change your life! #
In my vigilant tour of Irish bars I'm at The Dubliner. Thought I heard a Sinatra impersonator across the street but it's Harry Connick live! #
Thoughts of the not rich & famous: Shared ride shuttle: $22, wait on park bench an hour. Or Taxi: $65, go now. Hmm, aren't benches relaxing? #
Idle thought generated by this week's business trips: it would be much easier to build and maintain a moat in Florida than in Texas. #
Now on the runway – off to a weekend business meeting in Boca Raton, FL… Hope I manage to see sand for a few minutes at least! #
Catching the One-Eyed Doll singer's solo listening party/video shoot at my fave club in the world – Elysium in Austin, TX. Great synthpop! #
April 17, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-17
Don't miss the pre-order sale for SWALLOWED BY THE CRACKS, the new Dark Arts Books anthology launching at WHC: http://www.darkartsbooks.com #
Hello Nashville. Goodbye Nashville. #ReallyTightConnectingFlights #
And so my manic 24-hour trip to Boca Raton ends! Wish I could've hung at the beach, but instead I'm on a runway again. Chicago, here I come! #
April 10, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10
Good tip from my Boca Raton Dubliners bartender that holds true – Goodall's Irish Steak Sauce on Bangers and Mash could change your life! #
In my vigilant tour of Irish bars I'm at The Dubliner. Thought I heard a Sinatra impersonator across the street but it's Harry Connick live! #
Thoughts of the not rich & famous: Shared ride shuttle: $22, wait on park bench an hour. Or Taxi: $65, go now. Hmm, aren't benches relaxing? #
Idle thought generated by this week's business trips: it would be much easier to build and maintain a moat in Florida than in Texas. #
Now on the runway – off to a weekend business meeting in Boca Raton, FL… Hope I manage to see sand for a few minutes at least! #
April 3, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-03
March 31, 2011
~ Tweets for March 2011
How cool is that? Thanks to the $.99 sale, VIGILANTES OF LOVE is #19 on Kindle's Fantasy Bestseller List! http://tinyurl.com/2cgplql #kindle #
Thanks to everyone who's re-tweeted about the VIGILANTES OF LOVE sale! Really appreciate the help spreading news! http://tinyurl.com/2cgplql #
Download my 2nd dark fantasy fiction collection VIGILANTES OF LOVE to your NOOK today for just $.99 at: http://tinyurl.com/48pk8oj #NOOK #
Download my 2nd dark fantasy fiction collection VIGILANTES OF LOVE to Kindle for just $.99 from Amazon this month http://tinyurl.com/2cgplql #
Off to a kindergarten parent-teacher conference. I wonder if the teacher is going to blame me for my son's obsessive Star Wars predilection? #
RT @nbdyuknow: New column up at The Black Glove–Top Ten WTF Moments from NIGHT GALLERY: http://bit.ly/fEtueo #
Now leaving warm sunny Phoenix to return home to the Great White North
#Even when my cabbie is the George Carlin of The History Channel, I hate it when he robs me of 40 minutes of doze time on the way to O'Hare!! #
March 27, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-27
How cool is that? Thanks to the $.99 sale, VIGILANTES OF LOVE is #19 on Kindle's Fantasy Bestseller List! http://tinyurl.com/2cgplql #kindle #
March 26, 2011
~ Vigilantes of Love for a buck!
To celebrate the re-release of my 2nd book of dark fantasy fiction, Vigilantes of Love in e-book format, for a limited time the collection is on sale at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble for just $0.99. That's 15 stories for under a buck!
The book was originally released in trade paperback format in 2003, but has been out of print for several years, so it's great to see it available again. Vigilantes includes Twilight Zone-style macabre horror tales, but also offers some of my best dark fantasy stories as well (many are even family friendly!)
If you have an e-reader, I hope you'll check out a copy on Amazon or B&N.
March 20, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-20
Download my 2nd dark fantasy fiction collection VIGILANTES OF LOVE to your NOOK today for just $.99 at: http://tinyurl.com/48pk8oj #NOOK #
Download my 2nd dark fantasy fiction collection VIGILANTES OF LOVE to Kindle for just $.99 from Amazon this month http://tinyurl.com/2cgplql #
Off to a kindergarten parent-teacher conference. I wonder if the teacher is going to blame me for my son's obsessive Star Wars predilection? #
~ On Turning 45…
I turned 45 years old this week, but I was honestly too busy with various deadlines to really sit back and take stock of what that means. I'm halfway to 90, I got that far in my considerations. And in all likelihood, given family history and population averages, I'm probably more than halfway through the race.
No worries – I'm not getting maudlin over this one, but there it is. Time is moving on and we only get so much to play with. I'm hoping that I'll hit the high end of the age trend and that there are many more books to write in my future before the curtain falls. Ironically, just a couple days before my birthday, I signed a contract to write my sixth novel for Don D'Auria, my former editor at Leisure Books. The novel is called Nightwhere, and it's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It will be out next year on the new horror line D'Auria's creating for Samhain Publishing.
I did get a bit nostalgic last weekend as I looked ahead to 45, and I used some of my "birthday money" to buy some CDs of old LPs that I never upgraded to disc before. I hit Amazon for Dire Straits, Yaz, and old Styx and Dennis DeYoung solo albums (who can fathom that 27 years have passed since Dennis released Desert Moon?? Sheesh!) But I also picked up a new Andy Bell (Erasure) solo album and a recent collection from The Donnas. So I'm not totally retro yet.
My wife got me the first season of the classic Space: 1999 series on blu-ray (now THERE'S retro for you!) as well as all the Phantasm movie sequels (which I've been watching this weekend).
Probably the coolest thing I got though, was this custom card from my son Shaun. I'm pretty sure that the guns shooting at the "Happy Birthday Dada" message were not meant with malevolent intent. At least I hope not.
It's been a good week in other ways too. Notably on the Fiction Front:
More Book News:
The audiobook edition of my 3rd novel The 13th came out at the end of last month, and I finally got my copies a few days ago, which look awesome. The book was recorded and released by Audio Realms, and they gave it a new cover (the 3rd cover this book has had!) and the reader sounds great. It's available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and through the publisher — where you can listen to a sample chapter here:
Audio Realms also sent me copies of the discs for the audiobook version of Siren which should be out this month or early next. I'm looking forward to listening to this one too – I heard the initial sample chapter and it was great. I'll post again when that's available to hear.
At the same time as the audiobooks are coming together for my last two novels, the pre-order links for The Pumpkin Man, my 5th novel from Leisure Books, went up on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc. this week. That book will be out in e-book and Trade Paperback editions this fall. But you can get a sneak peek at the cover and short description now at least!
The big book news for me this year is the release of these audiobook editions of The 13th and Siren, a new Trade Paperback edition of Siren hitting the bookstores in a couple months and then the new novel, The Pumpkin Man, this fall.
Over the past few weeks I've been working on a couple of short fiction pieces that will be out in anthologies later this year, as well as on the next release for Dark Arts Books, which is debuting at the World Horror Convention at the end of April. I'll post about that book (which I've nearly finished designing) in a few days.
So 45 years, huh?
Seems like only yesterday I was singing "Come Sail Away" for the first time. Time's funny like that.
Or maybe it just means I'm getting old!
