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July 3, 2014
Kumquat Reviews!
Several readers have been kind enough to post KUMQUAT reviews on their blog or review site. Check ‘em out! Bookmark ‘em! Visit them each and every day!
Uberschaubare Relevanz. (Negative review here, but the wounds to my heart will heal in time…*sniffle*)
July 1, 2014
Kumquat!
It’s here! My new novel, a romantic comedy (!) is now available in a digital edition! Print edition coming soon!
From the “wickedly funny” Jeff Strand (says Publishers Weekly) comes a comedy about love, death, hot dogs, TV, and obscure fruit.
Thirty-five-year-old introvert Todd Bryan hasn’t really done much with his life, and he’s okay with that. Until, at a painfully bad film festival, he meets Amy Husk. She’s attractive. She’s funny. She’s quirky. And…she has an inoperable brain aneurysm and not much time to live. She may not even make it to the long-awaited final episode of Exit Red, the greatest show ever.
She convinces him that they should do something crazy and frivolous. And suddenly Todd, a guy who doesn’t do spontaneity, is on an insane road trip from Florida to Rhode Island with a girl he barely knows, just to visit a really cool hot dog place.
Many things will go wrong. But, hey, many things will go right, too. There’s a hook-handed hitchhiker and some property destruction. Maybe some sex. A kumquat will probably be relevant at some point, although not during the sex (if there is any).
A laugh-out-loud comedy, a touching love story, and a cross-country adventure, Kumquat is a story about making the most out of the time you’ve got. If that doesn’t interest you, there’s also a gummi bear tractor.
June 30, 2014
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!
The digital edition of my new novel, Kumquat, is now available! Get the Kindle edition for $2.99 from Amazon!
My new young adult comedy, I Have A Bad Feeling About This, is now available at the brick-and-mortar bookstore or online retailer of your choice! Being a young adult is not a requirement to read the book.
My second short story collection, Dead Clown Barbecue, is now available! Twenty-nine stories! 90,000 words of material! Get the Kindle edition for $2.99 or the paperback/deluxe hardcover editions from Dark Regions Press.
My novella Kutter is now available for your Kindle or Kindle app. Enjoy the delightful tale of a serial killer and his Boston terrier from Amazon.
(P.S.: People who leave reviews on Amazon deserve great big hugs!)
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June 26, 2014
Gave Up The Ghost: The Trailer
Whoa! It’s the trailer for “Gave Up The Ghost!” Check it out!
June 25, 2014
Seton Hill University In Your Write Mind Workshop
Tomorrow I’ll be leaping on a plane to Pittsburgh to be an author guest at Seton Hill’s In Your Write Mind workshop. I’ll be delivering the Saturday keynote speech, which may be inspiring or it may be me standing at the podium and weeping for twenty minutes–I haven’t decided.
If you’re a writer, aspiring or multimillionaire, you should go. If not, you should at least go to the mass signing Friday night at 7:00 PM. Click the link above for all the details!
June 22, 2014
“Gave Up The Ghost” World Premiere Today!
It’s finally here! The world premiere of “Gave Up The Ghost!” If you’re within 4 hours and 53 minutes of Buffalo, New York, you can still make it! Hurry hurry hurry! Check out this article in the Buffalo News for details:
http://www.buffalonews.com/gusto/movies/gave-up-the-ghost-premieres-at-screening-room-20140618
June 20, 2014
KUMQUAT Cover
It’s a double cover reveal day, mostly because I thought that I’d already posted the Facial cover but it got saved as a draft. So here’s the cover to Kumquat, by Lynne Hansen!
Kumquat comes out July 1st.
FACIAL Cover
Hey, kids (okay, this one isn’t for kids), here’s Zach McCain’s cover to my new novella, Facial, which will be out November 18th from DarkFuse!
Greg has just killed the man he hired to kill one of his wife’s many lovers. He’s now got a dead body in his office.
Carlton, Greg’s brother, desperately needs a dead body. It’s kind of related to the lion corpse that he found in his basement.
This is the normal part of the story.
From Jeff Strand, the author of Benjamin’s Parasite, The Sinister Mr. Corpse, and Fangboy, comes a tale that’s weird even by his standards.
Facial. It’s not about what you’re thinking. Well, okay, part of it is…
June 17, 2014
“Gave Up The Ghost” Premiere
So it suddenly turns out that I WILL be at the “Gave Up The Ghost” premiere this Sunday, June 22nd, in Amherst, New York. The rest of the cast and crew were always going to be there, but as the Florida guy with another commitment, I was going to have to experience it via Facebook posts and tweets.
Not anymore! The 20-minute short will have its world premiere at 5:00 PM at The Screening Room Cinema Cafe (Northtown Plaza Business Center, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst, NY). It will be followed by a Q&A and a cast reading of the screenplay for Gregory Lamberson’s next feature, Killer Rack, written by Paul McGinnis.
And it’s free, free, FREE!
For more information, check out the Gave Up The Ghost World Premiere Facebook page.
June 16, 2014
A Trio Of Countdowns…
Only 6 more days until the premiere of “Gave Up The Ghost” in Amherst, New York!
Only 10 more days until Seton Hill’s In Your Write Mind workshop!
Only 15 more days until my new novel Kumquat is published!
All of this data is accurate when you read it, because I know you read my blog every day.
