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Talk at the Hingham Library, Thursday June 17

Hingham Public Library kicks off its summer author series with a special program on Thursday, June 17, at 7 p.m. as four of Greater Boston's best up-and-coming mystery authors will talk about their latest books and about the art of writing crime fiction.

With the death of Robert B. Parker earlier this year, Boston lost one of its finest writers as well as its signature private eye. Parker ...

In the Mean Time blurbs!

A huge thank you to all the amazingly talented folks who said nice things about my upcoming collection, In the Mean Time. (coming October 15th)

"Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time is a dark, heart-twisting collection of short fiction which defies categorization and requires your complete attention. The children, parents, and teachers who inhabit these stories exist in the ways we all exist–through those old historical longings which are rarely answered.  Tremblay offers no solutions, but in the ...

Limited Edition hardcover of In the Mean Time up for pre-order

Chizine Publications make limited edition hardcovers available. While The trade paper (and ebook) of Mean Time will be available Oct. 15th at amazon, some Barnes and Nobles, and other independent stores of good taste, the hardcover (limited to 150 copies) will only be available online and through the HORROR MALL.  Muhahahaha!

Linky to pre-order at the Horror Mall

Linky to the fancy author/editor blurby endorsements of Mean Time!

So why splurge on the limited?

–Limited hardcovers are sexy

–Admit...

Rascal (and me) featured at Coffee with a Canine

Even though I hate coffee, and all hot beverages in general, Coffee with a Canine blog has graciously featured me with my better half, Rascal!

Cue snippet (clicky to read the whole shebang): "Rascal and I take winding neighborhood and woodsy walks in the afternoons, and when we're in our fenced yard we both like to chase after and bark at passing cars. Particularly those cars with drivers who are drinking the vile coffee beverage of which you speak."

HWA: Breaking up is surprisingly hard to do

I'm leaving the HWA (Horror Writer's Association). I'd been a member for the past decade: essentially the entire length of my writing career.  I joined the HWA in 2000. I knew of the organization for a few years before that but–even though I could join by simply demonstrating an interest in horror fiction–I told myself I wouldn't join until I had actually sold a story. Sold meaning getting paid real money for a story. I didn't want to join as a fan or as the org's money-maker, I wanted to...

LOST: Have a heart

I've been telling anyone who would listen that I hated last night's LOST finale like poisoned poison. That it couldn't have been worse. With my emotions tempering a bit, the finale still sucked huge rotten eggs, but I suppose it could've sucked worse. I only hated with a capital ATED half of the episode: the sideways world. If last night and this season's show was the island-only stuff, it would've been fine. I don't care that all the questions weren't answered. A little ambiguity I...

Signing/Reading, Thursday, May 20th: Me, Zeltserman, and Insanity Peppers?

Come one, come all to Watltham, MA's Back Pages Books.  7pm. Dave will be reading from his latest novel, Killer, and I'll be…

…making origami swans out of the pages of No Sleep Till Wonderland?

…transforming into a smoke monster?

…reading from my non-fiction work in progress: These Things I Believe?

…human beatbox-ing?

…reading from my next novel, The Little Sleep and Zombies?

…eating 47 Guatemalan Insanity Peppers in three minutes?

…chasing Dave around the store to Benny Hill theme music?

You will o...

Signing/Reading, Thursday, May 20st: Me, Zeltserman, and Insanity Peppers?

Come one, come all to Watltham, MA's Back Pages Books.  7pm. Dave will be reading from his latest novel, Killer, and I'll be…

…making origami swans out of the pages of No Sleep Till Wonderland?

…transforming into a smoke monster?

…reading from my non-fiction work in progress: These Things I Believe?

…human beatbox-ing?

…reading from my next novel, The Little Sleep and Zombies?

…eating 47 Guatemalan Insanity Peppers in three minutes?

 …chasing Dave around the store to Benny Hill theme music?

You will ...

Too Close to Home (or oh look, local hateful crazies on such a nice day)

Earlier today on my facebook I posted a Lewis Black video which makes fun of Glenn Beck's idiocy. I know, a wide net there, but more specifically, his proclivity to call all things opposed to him (even empathy?) Nazi.  Yes, it's funny, laugh at the crazy person, ha ha ha.

But, it seems a whole lot less funny when confronted with it.  Case in point:

This afternoon, I went to the post office in Sharon, MA. Pulled up and parked on the street right in front. Well, not exactly right in front...

TOC and final cover for IN THE MEAN TIME

Release date is October 15th, 2010. Up for pre-order at amazon. I give you, the final cover!

A history teacher begins his unorthodox senior course with clips from an ominous surveillance video, causing a student's home life to deteriorate along with the lessons. A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while figuring out how to handle Mom and the book club. A blog documents society's slow, unexplained, but inexorable...