Jeff Strand's Blog, page 58
February 22, 2016
Zombies In The Mail
Look what my local postal worker delivered today.
Readin’ ZOMBIE
So over the next couple of weeks I’m coming to a city near YOU, if you live in the Tampa Bay Area.
On February 27th I’ll be participating in the Grand Central Lit Crawl, where four separate venues will have authors reading. I’ll be at the first one, The Queen Pub, along with Paul Guzzo, at 4:00 PM. Get the full details HERE.
On March 6th, as part of the SunLit Festival, I’ll be the Dark Arts Q&A/Booksigning from 2-3:30 PM at Wine Madonna. Other participating authors include Lynne Hansen, Peter Salomon, Kathy Nappier, Mary-Jo Holmes, and Kurt Fawver. Read all about it HERE.
And on March 9th, another pub crawl! I’ll be reading at the Kings Street Food Counter, with Sally Bosco, Brad Preston, and Kathy Nappier, starting at 7:00 PM. The event page doesn’t have all the details yet, but check it out HERE.
I’ll also be going to some schools, but you’re not invited to those unless you’re a student. Sorry.
February 21, 2016
The Pipeline & The Witch
So in about a week I’ll finish my novel Blister, which means that I’ll have FOUR completed books that haven’t yet been published.
But a couple of days after that, The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever will be published, and I’ll be down to three.
Meanwhile, on Friday I saw The Witch (or, if you’re a dork, The VVitch) with an audience that was so into the movie that they didn’t sit there talking the whole damn time. This is a miracle. People never shut up during movies, and I hate to be ageist, but it’s YOU, old people in Florida reading this. Change your behavior.
Of course, reports from other, less fortunate horror movie fans are that audience members in The Witch are hee-hawing at it like braying donkeys. In a movie like this, there’s a fine line between what is weird/creepy and what is silly, and when people go into the theater saying “Ah ain’t gonna be skeered!” it can spoil the experience. So I’m breathing a sigh of relief that I got to be genuinely creeped out by The Witch.
And then I had really good sushi. I lived 95% of my life without realizing that I liked sushi, so I need to make up for lost time.
February 17, 2016
Airfare Purchased!
Yep, this year I’m doing the almost back-to-back madness of the World Horror Convention (Provo, Utah, April 28-May 1st) and StokerCon (Las Vegas, May 12-15th).
Which of you whacknuts are attending one, the other, or both?
February 16, 2016
Two More Weeks
Holy cow! Only two more weeks until The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever goes on sale! For those of you in warm climates, it’s now time to camp out in front of your bookstore. Those of you in colder climates are permitted to wait another week or so; I don’t want you to freeze to death before you get the book.
Q: If I pre-ordered the book online, do I still have to camp out in front of my bookstore?
A: Yes.
Q: Why?
A: Don’t question me.
It’s almost March 1st! It’s almost March 1st! It’s almost March 1st!
February 10, 2016
Booklist on ZOMBIE
The latest issue of Booklist has a review of The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever, and because I’m acknowledging its existence, it’s a good one!
“Readers will come away not only with stomachs aching from laughter but with the stars in their own eyes a little brighter.”
You can read the full review right HERE or in the February 15th issue of the print edition.
Meanwhile, I’ve actually been posting on my Facebook Author Page on a semi-regular basis. (As opposed to my regular Facebook page, where I post all the time.) If you want to give me a “like,” here’s the link:
https://www.facebook.com/JeffStrandAuthorFanPage/
February 9, 2016
Welcome to Gleefully Macabre!
Welcome to my website! Whether you were brought here by interest in my work or a Google search gone terribly wrong, I encourage you to hang around and start clicking away!
My new novel, The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever, will be at a bookstore near YOU on March 1st. Or, if you’re on online shopper, pre-order it from Amazon.
The hardcover limited edition of Wolf Hunt 2 is now available! Get it from Dark Regions Press or the paperback edition from Amazon. Or get it for your Kindle!
My new novel, Kumquat, is now available! Get the Kindle edition or the print edition from Amazon!
(P.S.: People who leave reviews on Amazon deserve great big hugs!)
Friend me on Facebook ! Follow me on Twitter ! Like my Facebook Fan Page! Friend me on Goodreads!
February 8, 2016
Horror Talk on DEAD CLOWN BARBECUE
One of my favorite websites, Horror Talk, has reviewed Dead Clown Barbecue. Are they STILL one of my favorite websites, or did they say cruel, hurtful things? Find out here:
http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/book-reviews/6197-dead-clown-barbecue-jeff-strand-book-review.html
February 7, 2016
A Day at the Fair
Yesterday I went to the Florida State Fair, where I ate some deep-fried avocado.
Also deep-fried cheese and deep-fried lemonade, which is a bit of a cheat because the actual lemonade is injected into the product post-deep-frying, but it was still a tasty treat. There were approximately 3,271,294 other deep-fried options available; sadly, it was rainy and cold (by the wuss standards of Florida) and we left before there was an opportunity for our stomachs to reset.
I also went into two haunted houses, both of which followed the exact same formula: You get in the little car, and ride through semi-darkness. At each turn, a prop from somebody’s discarded Halloween display lights up. Maybe it jiggles a little. Thirty seconds later, the ride is over.
Not gonna lie: I love lame-ass ride-through haunted houses. Should it have cost fifty cents instead of five dollars? Yes. I still love ’em.
(To be fair, the first one only cost four dollars, because you could get twenty tickets for twenty dollars, but to purchase only four tickets cost five dollars, and I didn’t have sixteen tickets’ worth of other stuff I wanted to do after the first twenty tickets were gone, so I only purchased the four tickets necessary for the second haunted house, so it cost five bucks.)
January 27, 2016
Memory Wipe
Forget I ever said anything about a book called Freezer. I’ve changed the title to Cold Dead Hands.
