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May 1, 2022
AuthorCon II Vendor Tables
UPDATE: Vendor tables sold out in 33 minutes. There will be a second wave of vendor tables announced in the coming days. Thank you.
Original Post:
Vendor tables for AuthorCon II (a Scares That Care event) taking place March 31 - April 2, 2023, are now available.
Click here to purchase your table.
A few points of note:
1) Once you have purchased your table, Joe Ripple of Scares That Care will contact you with the code to reserve your room at the hotel.
2)As our table pricing is still very low, there is to be no sharing of tables. Each vendor/author must purchase their own table.
3) A lot of requests at the last charity event were made to be put next to another author, due to co-writing, anthologies and other partnered works. It is requested and recommended that authors who wish this for the next event, purchase their tables as close together in time as possible. Tables will not be held.
4) Tables with wall space are available until such time as those tables run out.
5) Should vendor tables run out, two things will happen. First, we will look at expansion of the event space. A waiting list also will be established.
6) Life happens. We know this. In all accounts, we are a charity. If you do need to cancel a vendors table for whatever reason, we will make every attempt to find another vendor. Only if we are able to find a vendor to take the table, will you then get a refund. PLEASE NOTE - NO REFUNDS ON CANCELED TABLES WILL BE GIVEN ONE MONTH BEFORE THE EVENT.
7) Brian Keene is taking care of all scheduling of readings, panels, classes and related events. Logistics questions can come to Joe Ripple, but author related questions should be directed to him.
April 29, 2022
The Cage at Cannes
You might remember that the feature film adaptation of THE CAGE has been stuck in development hell now for several years. It looks like that may soon be changing. We are happy to announce that THE CAGE is set to present at this year’s Cannes to raise financing. Here is an article with more information. Paul Campion )THE DEVIL’S ROCK, THE NAUGHTY LIST) is attached to direct, which I’m very happy about.
April 27, 2022
Curse of the Bastards - Paperback Preorders
All stories have an end. And so do heroes…
Preorders for the paperback and ebook editions of CURSE OF THE BASTARDS are now available direct from the publisher. Use code ROGAN30 to save 30%. Plus, get discounts off both KING OF THE BASTARDS and THRONE OF THE BASTARDS!
April 25, 2022
StokerCon 2022
I’m a Guest of Honor at StokerCon 2022, which is coming up in just a few weeks, May 12th through the 15th in Denver, Colorado. Full details here. Here is my schedule, for those of you attending.
Thursday, May 12
5pm - Panel - Red Flags! When an Editor or Publisher Might Not be Right for You
6pm - Panel - Welcome to the Horror Shows: Defining horror in different media.
8pm - Opening Ceremony
Friday, May 13
11:30am - Panel - Hardcore Horror: Body horror, splatterpunk, and other branches of extreme horror fiction.
2:00pm - Panel - Horror in the 21st Century: What are the books published since 2001 that define the genre? What are today's Frankenstein, Dracula, I Am Legend, and The Stand?
3:30pm - Panel - Different Paths to Horror Success
Saturday, May 14
10:00 - Reading (me and fellow GoH Gemma Files)
2:00pm - Panel - The Rules of Horror: The Guest of Honor Panel
4:00pm - Panel - Hey, That's Me!: Creating Relatable Characters
In addition to all of this, you might see me talking to a camera crew at some point, while at the convention. I’m not allowed to tell you why they are filming me, because I’ve signed an NDA. But otherwise, I intend to just socialize, because it has been too long. Hope to see some of you there!
April 19, 2022
Defenders Dialogue 150
The Falcon soars into the spotlight as Christopher Golden and Brian Keene discuss his 1980s solo-series, guest-starring Electro, the Sentinels, Captain America, and more. Available for free wherever you listen to podcasts and also this link.
April 15, 2022
Last Call For Things Left Behind
Today (Friday the 15th) is the last day you can purchase the signed paperback edition of THINGS LEFT BEHIND. As of midnight tonight, they will go off sale. Click here to reserve your paperback.
The signed hardcover editions will be available for one more week, and will go off sale next Friday, the 22nd. Click here to reserve your hardcover.
THINGS LEFT BEHIND
by Brian Keene and Mary SanGiovanni
In their first book-length collaboration, Grandmaster Award winner Brian Keene and Bram Stoker Award nominee Mary SanGiovanni take readers on a road trip across horror fiction’s vast landscape, incorporating the quiet, the cosmic, the supernatural, the surreal, and the splatter. From a basement in Baltimore where a writer uncovers a gruesome secret that threatens to rip his world apart, to the golden shores of San Francisco where a young widow discovers she still has more to lose, stretches a trail of THINGS LEFT BEHIND.
April 6, 2022
The Drive-In: Multiplex - Official Line Up
Announcing the official line-up for THE DRIVE-IN: MULTIPLEX — a tribute to Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In trilogy, with blood and popcorn. Featuring all-new stories and novellas. Edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. Signed, limited edition hardcover. Published by Thunderstorm Books Pre-orders begin this June/July.
March 27, 2022
Year of the Bastard
An update on the Bastards Trilogy.
The first two books in the series — KING OF THE BASTARDS and THRONE OF THE BASTARDS — are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook here.
The third book in the trilogy, CURSE OF THE BASTARDS, will be available in paperback, eBook and audiobook this summer from Apex Publications. (The hardcover was previously published by Thunderstorm Books).
And while CURSE is the last book in the trilogy, it’s not the last of Rogan. Shrews just released a brand-new solo novel chronicling Rogan’s younger days called KILLER OF GIANTS. I wrote the Introduction for it. It is currently available in paperback and for Kindle here.
March 22, 2022
King of the Bastards - Italian Edition
The Italian language edition of KING OF TE BASTARDS — the Imaginarium Award winning novel by myself and Steven L. Shrewsbury — is now available in paperback. Click here to purchase.
March 16, 2022
Defenders Dialogue 149
Frankenstein's Monster is in the spotlight as Christopher Golden and Brian Keene discuss the horror icon's place in the Marvel universe and issue 11 of his original series. Available for free wherever you listen to podcasts, and also via this link.
