Glenn Rolfe's Blog, page 5
August 23, 2020
Happy Birthday, Kobe!
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I’ve been burning with Laker Pride since I was 7 or 8. Living in the land of the Celtics, it wasn’t easy. But when you neighbor owns the basketball hoop, he gets to pick his team first. He was always Bird and the Celts. I happily pretended to be Magic and the Lakers as we played out full games in his driveway. When Kobe came along, it was super special. A player that was introduced in my time, of my time, and one that held the keys to our basketball future.
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Once Shaq showed up and we returned to Championship form, nothing came close to that. I was lucky enough to live in Southern California one summer when the Lakers topped Kidd and the Nets in the Finals. I felt like I was among my people! And WE were champions!
Years later, getting to witness the Celtics come back up and then Kobe, D-Fish, and Pau take them on head to head two years in a row, that was epic. I watched the Lakers get them in the rematch and rode home from work hooting and hollering down the streets of Augusta, Maine. I was at work the morning Kobe’s death popped up on Twitter. It was a moment of surrealism. How, why? I was heartbroken, but I didn’t breakdown until I saw the posts with him and Gianna. And then, it was easy to imagine me and or my own daughter being here one minute and gone the next. Leaving behind a family and a legacy off sorts. When I saw Shaq crying on TV, that made it all hit me again.
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Mamba was in my thoughts again last night as I watched the Lakers take down the Trailblazers. I never get as fired up as I do watching a Lakers playoff game. Not by any other sport. I thought of all the great battles between Kobe’s Lakers and the Suns. How hard fought those games always seemed to be. I thought about that last night and felt the same fire. As much as my neighbor and Magic got me into the team, and as pumped as I was for Bron and AD last night, when watching a Lakers playoff game in my living room I’ll always think of Kobe knocking down an impossible three or snaking his way through defenders for a shot he shouldn’t be able to make in the paint.
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We love you and miss you Kobe! Happy birthday!
August 18, 2020
August 6, 2020
(Share The Horror Review) Everson’s Voodoo Heart: Another Slice of Awesome
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Another terrific story from John Everson.
Voodoo Heart follows Detective Lawrence Ribaud as he tries to discover what’s behind all the missing bodies in New Orleans. Every full moon bring more vanishings, leaving only beds of blood and a human heart.
Looking for help anywhere he can find it, Ribaud goes deep into the world of voodoo witnessing sacrifices, sexual rituals, and more on his way to uncovering the truth.
This one felt a bit different for me from Everson, but I loved it anyway. The traditional Everson flares show up in just the right places and the mystery was done well.
I give Voodoo Heart 4 stars!
Definitely recommend this one. If you’re a fan of the author, New Orleans, or swampy voodoo stories check it out!
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John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant, Sacrifice, The 13th, Siren and The Pumpkin Man, all released by Dorchester/Leisure Books in paperback. His sixth novel, NightWhere, was a 2012 Bram Stoker Award Finalist. Other novels include The Family Tree, Violet Eyes, Redemption and The House By The Cemetery. His 11th novel, The Devil’s Equinox, was released by Flame Tree Press in June 2019. He is also the creator of the characters Danika and Mila Dubov, now seen on the new Netflix series V-Wars, based on the books and comics created and edited by Jonathan Maberry.
A wide selection of his short fiction has been collected in six short story collections – Sacrificing Virgins (Samhain Publishing, 2015), Deadly Nightlusts (Blasphemous Books, 2010), Creeptych (Delirium Books, 2010), Needles & Sins (Necro Books, 2007), Vigilantes of Love (Twilight Tales, 2003) and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (Delirium Books, 2000).
John is also the editor of the anthologies Sins of the Sirens (Dark Arts Books, 2008) and In Delirium II (Delirium Books, 2007) and co-editor of the Spooks! ghost story anthology (Twilight Tales, 2004). In 2006, he co-founded Dark Arts Books to produce trade paperback collections spotlighting the cutting edge work of some of the best authors working in short dark fantasy fiction today.
John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There’s also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of fellow horror author Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can’t really play but that his son likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it’s usually only to brew another cup of coffee. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs book covers for a variety of small presses, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of ’70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a pint of Revolution Anti-Hero IPA.
For information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at www.johneverson.com or Facebook at www.facebook.com/johneverson.
July 19, 2020
Glenn Rolfe’s Horror Shop with Special Guest: HUNTER SHEA
So, after a couple years of doing regular interviews and such, I decided to kick things up a notch and do more of a video style show/vlogcast thing. Is that a word?
I give you Glenn Rolfe’s Horror Shop!
I did a pilot episode a couple weeks back and finally got the first official episode up!
This one features my interview with the great Hunter Shea.
Hunter and I go back a little ways with our Samhain Publishing connection, so it was awesome to have him on as the first guest.
I hope you enjoy our nonsense!
Check out Hunter’s page here: HUNTER SHEA
Pre-order Hunter’s MISFITS (coming in 9/20 from Flame Tree Press) here: MISFITS
Grab the intro music here: I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD
Grab my latest book here: UNTIL SUMMER COMES AROUND
June 16, 2020
Summer is Here: SO MANY GREAT NEW BOOKS!
HOLY CRAP! Three of my favorite writing buds have dropped brand-new books this month, and they ALL sound AMAZING.
Matt Hayward- THOSE BELOW THE TREE HOUSE
After an attack leaves Tony’s stepfather wounded, his thirteenth birthday descends into a nightmare. His stepdad is home, a bite on his neck, as Riverside’s only officer searches the woodlands for the aggressor. Tony is told not to cause a panic among the few kids living in Riverside’s mountaintop community, and his best friends Ben Rodgers and Lee Tally are unaware.
Overnight, the condition of Tony’s stepfather worsens. His mother won’t leave the bedside. And soon, Riverside is turned upside down as residents morph into moss-covered abominations. Freaks.
Joined by the local bully, the boys seek refuge in Rodgers’ tree house, trapped inside as neighbors, and even family, claw the trunk… Food and water soon runs low.
With all hope lost, the boys decide to have their first of what they can before time runs out. Their first drink, their first cigarette, their first of anything at all. Like baby birds thrown from the nest, they will need to fly or fall. And time is running short.
For his thirteenth birthday, Tony has learns the world has teeth. And someone else is out there, too, watching. An adult in a butcher’s apron. Waiting…
Those Below the Tree House is the new supernatural coming-of-age from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of What Do Monsters Fear? and A Penny For Your Thoughts.
Max Booth III- TOUCH THE NIGHT
“Mother! Mother! Rise from the ground!”
Stranger Things and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre unite to form a blood-soaked matrimony of violence and corruption.
Something sinister’s hiding in the small town of Percy, Indiana, and twelve-year-old Joshua Washington and Alonzo Jones are about to find themselves up close and personal with it. After a harmless night of petty property damage leads to the unthinkable, the red and blue lights of a cop car are the last things these boys want to see. Especially a cop car driven by something not quite human.
Enter Mary Washington and Ottessa Jones. Their sons have been best friends for years, and now Josh and Alonzo have been abducted in the dead of night. Worst of all, the local sheriff refuses to believe they’re missing, leaving it up to Mary and Ottessa to take the law into their own hands before a family of ungodly lunatics can complete a ritual decades in the making.
Together they will embark on a surreal and violent journey into a land of corrupt law enforcement, small-town secrets, gravitational oddities, and ancient black magic.
Todd Keisling- DEVIL’S CREEK
GIVE US THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION
About fifteen miles west of Stauford, Kentucky lies Devil’s Creek. According to local legend, there used to be a church out there, home to the Lord’s Church of Holy Voices—a death cult where Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god.
And like most legends, there’s truth buried among the roots and bones.
In 1983, the church burned to the ground following a mass suicide. Among the survivors were Jacob’s six children and their grandparents, who banded together to defy their former minister. Dubbed the “Stauford Six,” these children grew up amid scrutiny and ridicule, but their infamy has faded over the last thirty years.
Now their ordeal is all but forgotten, and Jacob Masters is nothing more than a scary story told around campfires.
For Jack Tremly, one of the Six, memories of that fateful night have fueled a successful art career—and a lifetime of nightmares. When his grandmother Imogene dies, Jack returns to Stauford to settle her estate. What he finds waiting for him are secrets Imogene kept in his youth, secrets about his father and the church. Secrets that can no longer stay buried.
The roots of Jacob’s buried god run deep, and within the heart of Devil’s Creek, something is beginning to stir…
Grab these books now and bring them to the beach!!!!!!
Stay safe!
(don’t forget to bring my new book, as well.)
May 21, 2020
Happy Release Day! Until Summer Comes Around is Here!
I sat down to write the bulk of this novel about 14 months ago. The world was a much different place then. Finishing the book over the summer of 2019 after much-needed camping trip with the family, turning the manuscript over to my editor, waiting for his approval, then waiting for the cover….it’s an adventure in itself. And the payoff is getting the finished piece into the hands of readers. Today is that day. And while I’d planned on launching with a book signing at my local Barnes & Noble, I’ll take it just the same.
Not only can you finally buy an e-book, paperback, or hardcover edition of Until Summer Comes Around, but I get the privilege of sharing my Flame Tree Press release day with one of my favorite writers in the horror realm, Brian Moreland (Shadows in the Mist, Dead of Winter, Darkness Rising) and his new novel, Tomb of Gods.
Flame Tree Press has set me and Brian up with a Facebook Live event today (Thursday, May 21st) at 1 PM (est) 10 AM (pst) Join us here: Flame Tree Press Facebook
“Fans of The Lost Boys film will enjoy this, and Rolfe puts his own spin on the standard summer bloodsucker tale.” – Booklist
“There is an underlying feeling of trepidation throughout Until Summer Comes Around. It is a stimulating, gripping, and chilling horror tale.” – Grimdark Magazine
“This middling, blood-spattered tale will appeal to diehard vampire fans…” – Publisher’s Weekly
“There is a reason I gave this book 11/10. It is simply, AMAZING.” – Ginger Nuts of Horror
“My first and most definitely not my last of Rolfe. What an absolute fun read dealing with first loves, vampires, and a summer you can’t quite forget.” – Where the Reader Grows
“Rolfe is a fantastic writer and this definitely captured the feeling and essence of young, summer love.” – Kendall Reviews
“Though Until Summer Comes Around is sweet in parts, it’s also dark. There is no shortage of blood and gore… I devoured this and I can’t wait to read more of this author’s work.” – Banshee Irish Horror Blog
“I keep waiting (hoping) for the world at large to realize just how good Rolfe’s novels are and hopefully Until Summer Comes Around will help get the word out.” – A Reviewer, Darkly
I hope you guys enjoy the book. If you read it, please remember to sneak over to Amazon and drop in a quick review. They help us out tremendously.
Until Summer Comes Around Amazon
Stay safe!
April 26, 2020
UNTIL SUMMER COMES AROUND: Facebook Live replays 1 and 2
I’ll be doing these Facebook Live events every Friday leading up to the release (May 21st) of UNTIL SUMMER COMES AROUND.
I’ve read the Prologue and Chapter One here:
And Chapter Two followed by a 45 minutes Q & A here:
I’d love to see this book burst out the gate and do well for myself and for Flame Tree Press, so please, if you like what you hear go pre-order a copy at your local online retailer.
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Universal Amazon Link: HERE
Barnes and Noble: HERE
Flame Tree Press Website: HERE
Be sure to join us this Friday at 9 PM est for Chapter 3.
April 24, 2020
Facebook Live Event Tonight!Reading, Q & A, and Book Giveaways!
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FACEBOOK LIVE EVENT (click the link below)
Join me here tonight at 9 PM est for a live reading, Q & A session, and book giveaway.
If this goes well, maybe we’ll make it a weekly thing leading up the release of UNTIL SUMMER COMES AROUND.
I’ll be giving away a Hardcover copy of UNTIL SUMMER COMES AROUND and a paperback of BLOOD AND RAIN (These will be up for non-Patreon members-I’ll do a special giveaway for my Patrons next month).
Facebook LIve tonight (Friday April 24th)
I'll be doing a reading and taking questions on Facebook Live tonight at 9pm est.
Come join me https://www.facebook.com/glenn.theory
April 20, 2020
UNTIL SUMMER CMES AROUND: Live Reading (replay), plus Monster Men interview/hangout
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I’m officially kicking off the #UntilSummerComesAroudnWorldTour. We’re a month out from its release date, so the time has come!
First up, here’s a Facebook Live reading I did covering the Prologue and Chapter One!
PROLOGUE and CHAPTER ONE READING:
And my Monster Men hang with Hunter Shea and Jack Campsis:
REVIEW: THE HORROR TREE “In summary – would I recommend this book to others? YES!!! Score out of 10? 11! Oh OK, 10.”
REVIEW: GRIMDARK MAGAZINE “…a stimulating, gripping and chilling horror tale and I devoured it in three days!”
We also scored a BOOKLIST review! We’re not allowed to share the review in its entirety until May 1st, but here’s a snippet: “Fans of The Lost Boys will enjoy this one, and Rolfe puts his own spin on the standard summer bloodsucker tale!”
We’re up to 40 reviews on GoodReads and I’m humbled by the response:
Until Summer Comes Around
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Glenn Rolfe (Goodreads Author)
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57% (23)
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37% (15)
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5% (2)
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100% of people liked it
If you guys have a blog or review for a site or magazine, you can still request review copies at NetGalley: UNTIL SUMMER COMES AROUND (NetGalley_ARC)
We’ll be looking to do as many interviews and blog posts as possible. If you have a platform, give me or Flame Tree Press a shout! Skype, Google Hangouts, or old school email interviews!
hit me up here or at glenntheory@hotmail.com
If you already have Flame Tree Press contacts, give them a shout.
I Hope you guys are staying safe out there.
