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Live AMA This Friday with Night Worms

I’ll be a guest this Friday night, beginning at 6pm EST / 3pm PST over on the Night Worms YouTube Page. Join hosts Sadie, Ashley and myself for a Livestream Q&A during which you can ask me anything. (It will be rebroadcast for viewers who missed it). Click here to watch.

Pre-Order The Seven

The Labyrinth — an interconnected mythos that binds all of Brian Keene’s works together.

The Labyrinth — an interdimensional construct that binds all of reality together.

Now, the Labyrinth is threatened. A group of malevolent cosmic entities known as The Thirteen have been loosed upon the universe. Ob, Leviathan, Behemoth, Nodens, Meeble, Shtar, Kandara and the rest of their kind have one goal — the complete destruction of all Creation. Seven unlikely warriors from across time and space have been called upon to stop them. If they fail, reality itself will crumble. And the collapse has already begun…

THE SEVEN: THE LABYRINTH Book One is the start of Brian Keene’s magnum opus, featuring characters and situations from THE RISING, EARTHWORM GODS, DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, THE COMPLEX, CLICKERS, DARK HOLLOW, and many more in an epic, multi-volume final battle that spans Keene’s vast literary universe, and will thrill both new readers and long-time fans.

THE SEVEN: THE LABYRINTH Book One — Everything dies, but not everything has an ending…until now.

Signed limited edition hardcover available for pre-order from Thunderstorm Books for $95 plus shipping. Print run will be set by the number of pre-orders. Book will ship in August. CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER

New Interview at Cemetery Dance

Here’s a new interview with me at Cemetery Dance, conducted by Rick Hipson, in which I talk about WITH TEETH, The Labyrinth mythos, and much more. Click here to read it.

Lifetime Subscriber Update

All signed copies of WITH TEETH and THE DAMNED HIGHWAY were shipped to Arizona for fulfillment, however, one of those boxes — the one with the personalized copies — has gone missing, and there is no word from the Post Office on its whereabouts. So… those who prefer flat-signed copies are safe. Those who prefer personalized copies will have to wait while I reorder and resign their books.

All copies of SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL are signed and will be shipped to Arizona for fulfillment this week. Copies of END OF THE ROAD and DISSONANT HARMONIES will follow end of the month.

So, ultimately, you should probably expect multiple shipments over the next few months, rather than one large shipment. We apologize for the inconvenience. You are no doubt familiar with the disarray that has overtaken the U.S. Post Office since Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was appointed on June 15, 2020. Hopefully things will return to normal soon.

Scares That Care VII Official Program

The programming schedule for Scares That Care Charity Weekend VII has been finalized. Below is a schedule of events pertaining strictly to authors. For the full programming schedule, including actors, costume contest, and other events, click here and scroll down to SHOW PROGRAM.

Please note, while I have done my best to accommodate all attending authors and their fans, we have scaled back capacity on some of these events, and as a result, there are no further openings, nor is there a waiting list as in previous years.

AUTHOR PROGRAMMING 

FRIDAY

4:15pm to 5:00pm (Room A):
Todd Keisling and Bridgett Nelson – Reading and Q&A

 5:15pm to 6:15pm (Room A):
MY FAVORITE HORROR HYBRID – Like peanut butter and chocolate, horror goes well with other genres. Gabino Iglesias, Adam Cesare, Stephen Kozeniewski, and Scott Baker (moderator) discuss some of their favorite cross-genre chillers.

 6:30pm to 7:15pm (Room A):
Hunter Shea and Matt Serafini – Reading and Q&A

 7:30pm to 8:30pm (Room A):
COLLECTING HORROR MOVIE NOVELIZATIONS – What’s your first edition paperback of John Carpenter’s Halloween worth? Where can you find a copy of Friday the 13th in print? Matt Serafini, Kristopher Triana, Wesley Southard, and Scott Cole (moderator) discuss collecting novelizations of your favorite horror films.  

 8:45pm to 9:30pm (Room A):
Kristopher Triana and John Wayne Comunale – Reading and Q&A

 9:00pm until… (Auditorium):
HORROR TRIVIA THUNDERDOME II: Fans compete against their favorite actors and authors in a hilarious horror trivia deathmatch. Hosted by Brian Keene and featuring surprise guests.

 

SATURDAY

 10:15am to 11:00am (Room A):
Jacob Haddon and Red Lagoe – Reading and Q&A

 11:15am to Noon (Room A):
Scott Baker and Jay Wilburn –Reading and Q&A

 Noon to 1:00pm (Rooms 2 & 3):
WRITING FOR VIDEO GAMES – Video game industry veteran Richard Dansky answers all of your questions about how to break into the field and how to write for video games.

 12:15pm to 1:00pm (Room A):
Scott Cole and Christoph Paul – Reading and Q&A

 1:15pm to 2:00pm (Room A):
Adam Cesare and Wesley Southard – Reading and Q&A

 2:15pm to 3:00pm (Room A):
Jonathan Janz and Gabino Iglesias – Reading and Q&A

 3:15pm to 4:00pm (Room A):
Laurel Hightower and Sonora Taylor – Reading and Q&A

 4:15pm to 5:15pm (Room A):
I SURVIVED THE DEATH OF HORROR (AGAIN) – From Zebra Books and Dell/Abyss in the mid-1990s to Leisure Books and Samhain in the ‘00s, mainstream horror fiction has died and then clawed its way out of the grave time and time again. Ronald Kelly, Jeff Strand, Jonathan Janz, Hunter Shea, and Lynne Hansen (moderator) discuss what it was like to live through those times, and how they survived to scare again.

 5:30pm to 6:30pm (Room A):
V. Castro, Cynthia Pelayo and Leza Cantoral – Reading and Q&A

  

SUNDAY

 11:15am to Noon (Room A):
Kelli Owen and Lucas Milliron – Reading and Q&A

 12:15pm to 1:00pm (Room A):
Kevin Lucia and Lindsay Lerman – Reading and Q&A

 1:15pm to 2:00pm (Room A):
Jeff Strand and Stephen Kozeniewski – Reading and Q&A

 2:15pm to 3:00pm (Room A):
Robert Ford and Brian Keene – Reading and Q&A

Night Worms Livestream 6/18

I’ll be a guest on the Night Worms Livestream June 18th, starting at 6pm (EST). I imagine this will be a long, broad, Q&A encompassing just about everything, (as is befitting for the release of THE SEVEN: THE LABYRINTH Book 1, which encompasses my entire bibliography). Make sure you’re subscribed to Night Worms here. For those of you unable to watch the Livestream, it will be rebroadcast later, as well.

J.F. Gonzalez’s Fetish Back In Print

FETISH is back in print and available now in both paperback and for Kindle. The new cover is by Kealan patrick Burke and ElderLemon Design. Click here to purchase your copy!

The Rising Videogame

Back in 2005, a videogame based on my novel THE RISING was in development. Unfortunately, it got stuck in development hell (as these things so often do) and eventually, the option expired and the videogame rights reverted back to me. Here is a playthrough of the prototype, so you can see what might have been.

Defenders Dialogue 136

What do Spider-Man, the X-Men, The Thing, Daredevil, Captain America, Sharon Carter, Morbius the Living Vampire, Medusa, Reed Richards and Shanna the She-Devil all have in common? They're all in this episode. And so are Christopher Golden, Brian Keene and special guest Matt Wildasin! Free wherever you listen to podcasts, or via this link

With Teeth Now On Kindle

The Kindle and paperback editions of WITH TEETH have both been released early, ahead of their original 6/1 sale date. Both are now available for immediate purchase on Amazon. Click here to order!