March Madness Week #2

As previously noted, I'm on a writing vacation, and posts are sporadic this month. Here are some updates on various things.

Last Saturday, Mike Lombardo of Reel Splatter Productions came by to record a commentary track with me for Demonstration of the Dead, which will be included on the forthcoming Reel Splatter DVD. While he was here, we got the idea to record a mini-sequel to Demonstration of the Dead, which I think you'll all enjoy. Details on the DVD release coming soon.

J.F. Gonzalez and I found our trip to New York delayed until later this month, which is good, because it gives us more time to polish the pitch. I can't tell you anything else about the proposed project, other than it's not horror, and it recalls Jason Bourne and John MacClane, and we still get to destroy the world (which, as anyone who has read the Clickers series can tell you, is something we do well together).

Speaking of Clickers, there are less than 10 copies of Clickers vs. Zombies left. Click here to read the free preview, or click here to order one of those last ten. The book will ship in just a few more weeks.

This past week was spent working on The Lost Level and the Ghoul prequel. I can't say much about the prequel, but I can confirm it is based on the movie's continuity and not that of the novel. You'll see it very soon.

Pre-readers are hard at work on Deluge, which will be part of this year's Maelstrom set. Now that contracts have been signed, I imagine I'll have to go ahead to tell you what the other two Maelstrom books are very soon.

A reader asked via my message board for a status update on Apocrypha. It's still being put together, albeit slowly. Since much of the material hasn't seen print in almost 15 years or more, it's taking a while to track down and secure the rights to it all.

If, like me, you're a Karl Edward Wagner devotee, here's a fascinating article I stumbled across this week.

Here's something I posted last week – my abbreviated thoughts on the Amazon versus Barnes & Noble war, and the "All Kindle books should be free or 99 cents" lobbyists.

And now I go back to work.