C'mon horror readers! Spread out!
C'mon horror readers! Spread out!
Every fiction genre has it writing kings and queens, we all know that. I have no argument with it. They've made their place. They've earned their bones. They write great stuff and, for that, they get bought and read. I write horror, suspense, and mystery, so the names of the kings and queens of those genres figure most prominently in my world. Stephen King, obviously, Heather Graham, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, and a select group of others; these are our stars. In the last few weeks, I've gotten an education regarding how very much they get bought and read.
Several weeks ago, my horror thriller The Devil's Bed reached #4 on Amazon Kindle's list of best selling Ghost novels. Numbers 1 and 2 were Stephen King novels, natch. The 3 spot was held by Heather Graham. Then came The Devil's Bed. Followed by a Dean Koontz book and another Heather Graham at #6.
My new novel, Apparition Lake, co-written with my talented but not as handsome as me brother, Daniel D. Lamoreux, is currently #5 on Kindle's list of best selling Native American novels (admittedly, a specialized sub-genre) and #7 on Amazon's list of best selling Native American novels in all books in the United States. But it is also a horror thriller. On Kindle's list of best selling Paranormal Suspense novels, Apparition Lake is currently #17. Ten of the books ahead of it on this list, ten of them, are written by Stephen King (2), Heather Graham (2), and Dean Koontz (6).
I told you all of that to tell you this: C'mon horror readers! Spread out!
Yup, Stephen King's great. And Heather Graham. And Dean Koontz. And Anne Rice. No doubt about it! But so are a plethora of other great writers that should be bought and read. With absolutely nothing to gain but a few assorted raspberries from the many, many, many that I don't have space or time to mention, let me just mention a few - the tip of the horror and thriller iceberg: Carole Gill, Brian L. Porter, Kevin A. Ranson, Erik Hofstatter, V R McCoy, John Irvine, Chris Larsen, Scott Goriscak, Dan Dillard, Weldon Burge, Rose Blackthorn, Henry Snider. Start there. It's just the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg, but it's a place to start. These are great writers, writing great horror, and I ain't making nickel one by saying so.
Sure King and Graham and Koontz and the rest are tops. Buy them, read them. But don't be afraid to spread out! Do yourself a treat! There is a lot of good horror, suspense, and mystery out there!
Every fiction genre has it writing kings and queens, we all know that. I have no argument with it. They've made their place. They've earned their bones. They write great stuff and, for that, they get bought and read. I write horror, suspense, and mystery, so the names of the kings and queens of those genres figure most prominently in my world. Stephen King, obviously, Heather Graham, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, and a select group of others; these are our stars. In the last few weeks, I've gotten an education regarding how very much they get bought and read.
Several weeks ago, my horror thriller The Devil's Bed reached #4 on Amazon Kindle's list of best selling Ghost novels. Numbers 1 and 2 were Stephen King novels, natch. The 3 spot was held by Heather Graham. Then came The Devil's Bed. Followed by a Dean Koontz book and another Heather Graham at #6.
My new novel, Apparition Lake, co-written with my talented but not as handsome as me brother, Daniel D. Lamoreux, is currently #5 on Kindle's list of best selling Native American novels (admittedly, a specialized sub-genre) and #7 on Amazon's list of best selling Native American novels in all books in the United States. But it is also a horror thriller. On Kindle's list of best selling Paranormal Suspense novels, Apparition Lake is currently #17. Ten of the books ahead of it on this list, ten of them, are written by Stephen King (2), Heather Graham (2), and Dean Koontz (6).
I told you all of that to tell you this: C'mon horror readers! Spread out!
Yup, Stephen King's great. And Heather Graham. And Dean Koontz. And Anne Rice. No doubt about it! But so are a plethora of other great writers that should be bought and read. With absolutely nothing to gain but a few assorted raspberries from the many, many, many that I don't have space or time to mention, let me just mention a few - the tip of the horror and thriller iceberg: Carole Gill, Brian L. Porter, Kevin A. Ranson, Erik Hofstatter, V R McCoy, John Irvine, Chris Larsen, Scott Goriscak, Dan Dillard, Weldon Burge, Rose Blackthorn, Henry Snider. Start there. It's just the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg, but it's a place to start. These are great writers, writing great horror, and I ain't making nickel one by saying so.
Sure King and Graham and Koontz and the rest are tops. Buy them, read them. But don't be afraid to spread out! Do yourself a treat! There is a lot of good horror, suspense, and mystery out there!
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