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March 3, 2014
Publishers Weekly Book of the Week
Hey, Publishers Weekly has announced its picks for the Books of the Week of March 3rd…I wonder if there’s anything interesting on there…hmmm…scroll down a bit…OMG, it’s I Have A Bad Feeling About This!!!
I wouldn’t make that up. Well, I probably would, but not in this particular instance. Here’s a handy verification link.
Movie Time!
Whoa! It’s the teaser poster for CREEPERS, a horror anthology movie, featuring adaptations of stories by Joe Lansdale, Edgar Allan Poe, Lafcadio Hearn, and, yes, me. (Otherwise I wouldn’t be posting this. Poe doesn’t need the free publicity.)
The segment I wrote, “Gave Up The Ghost,” will be directed by Gregory “Slime City” Lamberson. It’s currently in pre-production and the cameras roll at the end of this month. I’ll be flying up to Buffalo, New York to be on the set, so if my fingers aren’t too numb from the bitter cold I’ll post an exciting set report with all the latest gossip. Is Lamberson an insane dictator on set? Will there be any hot off-screen romances? Will I run around wailing “My creative vision is being compromised! My creative vision is being compromised!”? Stay tuned for the answers!
In the meantime, check out the CREEPERS Facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/creepersfil
THE SINISTER MR. CORPSE – German Edition!
Coming soon from Voodoo Press, it’s the German-language edition of The Sinister Mr. Corpse! Check out the insane cover:
BAD FEELING Blog Tour!
The official I Have A Bad Feeling About This blog tour has begun! I’ll be posting links every couple of days throughout the month of March to unsuspecting websites that have graciously allowed me to visit, including…
Dear Teen Me. Where authors write letters to their teenaged selves. WARNING: Do not click the link unless you want to see a picture of my “business in the front, party in the back” hair from high school.
The Avid Reader. An important essay on “Why I Have A Bad Feeling About This” is Better Than Being Poked In The Face With a Stick.”
Check ‘em both out!
BEWARE: Onslaught of Blog Entries
I’m way behind on this blog, due to a novella deadline (successfully met!) and plenty of other chaos. I’m going to try to post a few updates today, and then get back to my “more or less every day or so, sort of” blogging schedule.
February 17, 2014
Announcement Coming Soon…
…but here’s an F/X test. If you went to my readings at WHC 2013 or Wordier Than Thou, you may be able to guess what this is…
February 11, 2014
Upcoming Appearances
Okay, this blog post is just a cut-and-paste of my Appearances page…but what if you never clicked on my Appearances page and I was doing a signing at the bookstore RIGHT NEXT DOOR and you MISSED IT???
February 15, 2014. 10:30 AM: ST. PETERSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY – MAIN BRANCH. 3745 9th Avenue North. St. Petersburg, Florida. 33713. I’ll talk about books, and then answer whatever invasive questions you might have for me. Bonus: Cookies and punch! After my 35-40 minutes of babbling, author Helen Parramore will follow.
March 8, 2014. 1:00 PM. BARNES & NOBLE CARROLLWOOD. 11802 Dale Mabry Highway. Tampa, Florida. 33618. It’s the exciting launch party for my new novel, I Have a Bad Feeling About This! Get the first signed copies!
March 15, 2014. 2:00 – 4:00 PM. BOOKS-A-MILLION LAKELAND. 1520 Towne Center Drive. Lakeland, Florida. 33803. Woo-hoo! Another chance to get signed copies of I Have a Bad Feeling About This!
May 8-11, 2014. WORLD HORROR CONVENTION. This year it’s in Portland, Oregon, which means that much quality time will be spent in Powell’s Books. Guests of Honor include Nancy Holder, Jack Ketchum, Alan M. Clark, Norman Partridge, Paula Guran, Greg Staples, John Shirley, and Victoria Price.
February 3, 2014
Gleefully Macabre Tales Is BACK!
You know what sucks? The flu. It totally sucks. I spent the past few days thinking how much the flu sucks, and how nice it was when I didn’t have the flu, and how I will never again laugh at people with the flu and call them slackers who are faking it to get out of having to go to school or work.
But I’m healthy now (*cough* *cough*) and can happily share that the digital edition of my short story collection Gleefully Macabre Tales is back! You may not have noticed that it was gone, but I assure you, it was, and now it’s back! And for a limited time (let’s say maybe two weeks or so) it’s a scant 99 cents!
Except for the new cover by Lynne Hansen, it’s the exact same book, so if you’ve already bought it there’s no reason to go “Ooh! Ooh! New edition of Gleefully Macabre Tales! New edition of Gleefully Macabre Tales! I bet it’s filled with never-before-seen stories and packed with bonus content!” It’s not. It’s the same book. But if you started with Dead Clown Barbecue wished that I’d published a short story collection before that…I did!
Click HERE to get your 99 cent Kindle edition! 85,000 words’ worth of insane stories!
January 24, 2014
January 20, 2014
Fun Fact!
Fun Fact! The hardcover limited edition of A Bad Day For Voodoo has an extra chapter that spoofs the mash-up novel craze: Wuthering Heights (With A Cow In It). It was cut from the paperback/digital edition because, even by the standards of that book, it was too silly.
