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Death's Good Intentions: New Cover!

With the sequel incoming, I decided it was time to give Death’s Good Intentions a bit of a makeover. So, here’s the new Death’s Good Intentions cover art!
This was put together by Ace Book Covers (www.acebookcovers.com). Had a pleasure working with Ace and will definitely look them up again in the future.

Death’s Good Intentions will feature the new cover on ebooks first. The paperback will get an update a little later, at which point there will be a giveaway! TRULY.

Book 2 of the series...

Book Review: The Cartel by Don Winslow

The Cartel is one of those books that I picked up based solely on the ratings and recommendations of writer friends whose views I respect. This doesn’t always pay off—we’re different people, after all—but it’s better than banking on whatever’s hitting the top of the bestsellers lists.

In this case, my friends were right. This is a fantastic book. Maybe it’s even better than simply being fantastic. Don Winslow’s The Cartel is The Godfather for a darker, bloodier age, and sure to be considered...

Book Review: Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

It’s impossible for me to imagine how I would view this book without first listening to the Night Vale podcast show... For that matter, it is impossible for me to imagine Night Vale. It is impossible to imagine. Do not imagine anything... The Secret Police are listening...

For the uninitiated: Welcome to Night Vale is a sci-fi/comedy/horror podcast series that’s aired twice a month since 2012 (wow, has it been that long already?). The series is narrated by Cecil Baldwin, the voice of Night Va...

Book Review: Brother by Ania Ahlborn

Holy crap. Brother is a book that lets you think you know what’s going down. I did. I thought I was one step ahead of everything, seeing twists coming like a home run slugger sees his favorite pitch – I know where this ball’s headed, I might as well point to the wall and swing. Then the ball drops – my eyes widen – the ball does a weird corkscrew thing like an X-Wing on approach – I start to sweat – it speeds up, it slows down, it winks at me – what the what – it crosses the plate and I stan...

Book Review: The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski

Most of the tales of WWII focus on the soldiers and the leaders of the countries at war. For myself, I’ve always been more fascinated by the stories of those who operated without direct backing from government and military, like the French Resistance fighters or the Nazi Hunters. And certainly many tales about these individuals have been exaggerated, both by storytellers wanting to create the most exciting yarn possible and by the heroes themselves. But there was a truth that inspired the fi...

Book Review: Soul Breaker by Clara Coulson

Cal Kinsey is a young man that’s a bit out of his depth. See, he’s a rookie at DSI – that’s the Department of Supernatural Investigations – and though he looks to have a bright future at the agency, his first case is a humdinger with a fire spirit, multiple dead college students, and a blue demon with a big hammer. It’s gonna be a rough week.

The DSI is a government agency that polices and studies the things that go bump in the night. Think Men in Black or Hellboy, except more official and ou...

Book Review: The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

Though I’ve missed some of Clive Barker’s classic stories along the way, I still regard the author as one of the key voices that introduced me to horror fiction. Stephen King, like many other classic horror authors, has a familiarity to him. That’s not say that King can’t scare me – he does! – but I know Carrie, The Shining, and Christine well enough not to connect with the same dread that was felt by readers when those books first came out. Barker was different; he’s never safe, always diff...

Book Review: August Ragone's Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters

I tried getting my hands on this book years ago. At the time, it was long OOP and was going for prices north of $100. Well, it was hard to drop that kind of cash on a used book, so I decided to hold off. I’m glad I did. Now the book is in print again and going for far more reasonable prices.

Among Godzilla fans, August Ragone’s book on Eiji Tsuburaya is considered one of the best books in the English language ever written about the genre and the men who created it. If you don’t know who Eiji...

Blood Child: The Book I Shouldn't Have Written

I’m a self-published author. I hope to one day become a hybrid author – that’s where I self-pub some books and go to traditional publishers with others – but that’s the future. There are benefits and drawbacks to both types of publishing. Today I’m going to talk about one of the benefits of being my own publisher.

When you spend so much time working on something, it’s easy to be disappointed with the finished product. At least on some level, the author always feels that something could be bett...