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March 18, 2014
March 16, 2014
Content-Free Post
I’ve got five minutes to kill. It’s either do a quick meaningless blog post or play Words With Friends. I picked you guys. Unless I’m currently playing Words With Friends with you, in which case I picked everyone else, and I apologize.
March 15, 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!
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.
My novella, Stalking You Now is available from DarkFuse. Grab yourself a copy from Amazon.
My young adult comedy, A Bad Day For Voodoo, is now available at a bookstore near you from Sourcebooks, or online in e-book and paperback editions!
And my novels Pressure and Dweller have both returned in shiny new digital editions, for a scant $2.99 each!
Finally, all four novels in the Andrew Mayhem series are available in a $7.99 digital box set, with a brand-new foreword by James A. Moore!
(P.S.: People who leave reviews on Amazon deserve great big hugs!)
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March 14, 2014
Lakeland Books-a-Million Signing Tomorrow!
Are you in Florida? Is it Saturday, March 15th? Is it between 2:00 and 4:00 PM? Then I’m at the Lakeland Books-a-Million, standing behind a table (or out back; depends on where they put me) signing copies of I Have A Bad Feeling About This. Come on out! Say hi! Point and laugh! Pick up a copy of the book, read the back cover, roll your eyes, say “I’m not buying this crap,” and leave! It’ll be fun for all!
It’s at 1520 Towne Center Drive, Lakeland, Florida 33803.
March 12, 2014
Stokers 2014 And 2015!
Hey, kids! Got any plans for May 8-11, 2014 and May 7-10, 2015? If so, cancel them. If not, head on over to Portland and Atlanta, respectively, for the 2014 and 2015 World Horror Conventions and Bram Stoker Awards banquets.
I’ll be the Master of Ceremonies for BOTH of the awards banquets, so come to Portland and/or Atlanta, but neither is not an option.
For all the details on the World Horror Convention 2014, which includes the Bram Stoker Awards banquet, head on over to http://www.worldhorror2014.org/.
For all the details on the Bram Stoker Awards banquet 2015, which includes the World Horror Convention, head on over to http://www.whc2015.org/.
Guests of honor for 2014 include Nancy Holder, Jack Ketchum, Norman Partridge, Greg Staples, Paula Guran, Alan M. Clark, John Shirley, and Victoria Price.
Guests of honor for 2015 include John Farris, Kami Garcia, Christopher Golden, Lisa Tuttle, and Jonathan Maberry.
Guest Blog: Buried Under Romance
Yesterday’s guest blog was the fake story of the inspiration behind I Have A Bad Feeling About This. This guest blog, at Buried Under Romance, is the real one:
http://www.buriedunderromance.com/2014/03/guest-post-with-jeff-strand-author-of-i.html
March 11, 2014
Guest Blog – A Dream Within a Dream
My next guest blog appears at A Dream Within A Dream, and shares a 100% true (or 100% untrue; I forget) transcript of the historic conversation when I pitched her the idea for I Have A Bad Feeling About This.
http://adreamwithindream.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-have-bad-feeling-about-this-blog-tour.html
COMING SOON: A guest blog with the true story.
March 9, 2014
Gave Up The Ghost – Cast Reading
Hey, what could this be? Why, it’s the cast reading my screenplay for “Gave Up The Ghost,” a short horror/comedy film that will be directed by Gregory Lamberson and included in the horror anthology Creepers.
Starting at the left, moving clockwise, pictured are: Gregory Lamberson, Kaelin Lamberson, Sam Qualiana, Jessica Zwolak, Drew Bialy, Alexander Sloan McBryde, John R. Renna, and Paul McGinnis. Also pictured through the window is that delightful Buffalo, New York weather, which I will be braving in a couple of weeks when I travel up to the frozen north to hang out on the set.
Check out the Creepers Facebook page for lots-o-updates on “Gave Up The Ghost” and the other three films included in the anthology!
March 6, 2014
Guest Blog – The Crabby Reviewer
As promised, many of my blog entries this month will be directing you to blog entries on other sites. Today’s is at The Crabby Reviewer. Dan Reilly reviews a lot of comics, so my guest blog is “The Rise and Fall of a Comics Fan.” Check it out!
March 5, 2014
Do You Have A Bad Feeling Yet…?
It seems kind of silly to devote a post to providing useful links to purchase my new novel, I Have A Bad Feeling About This, because of COURSE you’ve already got your copy. You were there as soon as the bookstore opened. You pushed some old lady out of the way, and she wasn’t even near the New Young Adult Releases shelf, or, if you’re going to be truly honest with yourself, taking up all that much room in the aisle.
But maybe you want ANOTHER copy. If so, I figured I’d be a sweetheart and let you know that you can order it from Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Books-a-Million or Powell’s.
Please buy it. If I don’t sell as many copies as Gone Girl, these guys are gonna break my thumbs.
