World Horror Convention in Austin, TX

I'll be attending the World Horror Convention in Austin this week, celebrating the release of Abortion Arcade and many other books.. If you're around, stop by the Eraserhead Press table and say hi.Other bizarro writers/publishers in attendance include Carlton Mellick III, Rose O'Keefe, Jeff Burk, Kevin L. Donihe, and Andersen Prunty. Brian Keene, with several books hot off the press from Deadite (Eraserhead's cult horror imprint), will also be there.

I first met the Eraserhead Press crew (and Brian Keene) at the 2006 World Horror Convention in San Francisco. When I attended World Horror in Salt Lake City in 2008, Eraserhead gave me a five book contract. They put out Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden later that year.

It's strange to imagine that five years ago, I was looking forward to attending World Horror, as I am now, but five years ago I was seventeen years old, graduating from high school in about a month, and I had this idea that if I could get a book out with Eraserhead Press by the time I turned 30, I would feel okay about myself. Today, I can say that I feel better than okay.

Anyway, on Saturday, I'll be on a panel about cross-genre work with Paul Tremblay and a few others. Here's the panel description from the programming:

Genre Mash-Ups — 2:00 PM Saturday, April 30 – Dezavala

Nicholas Kaufmann, Cathy Clamp, (M), Sandra Kasturi, C. Cameron Pierce, Robert Boyczuk, Paul Tremblay

Horror is a genre of tone and emotional response, and as such it can be found virtually anywhere: in literary fiction, romance, crime, science fiction, and even experimental fiction. Find out how best to get the peanut butter in your chocolate  (chocolate in your peanut butter?) with some of the field's favorite genrebenders.

Hope to see some of you in Austin.