Posts under ‘Writing’

The Black Glove just ran a couple of pieces about me and my work.
You can check out the interview here. TBG contributor Karen Newman asked me about everything from my karate studies to my writing to collaborating with guys like Brian Keene and J.F. Gonzalez. Wonder what happened to Muy Mal with John Urbancik, Weston [...]

The problem with goals for word counts or page counts is I tend to beat myself up when I don’t make them. I start feeling like I’ve failed at something, and that makes it even tougher to go back and do it again. This is a big problem when I have so many irons in [...]

The Pack: Winter Kill has been available for a few months now, and I’m thrilled that people have been enjoying it. As of today, the trade paperback edition has earned fifteen 5-star reviews and one 4-star review, including a 5-star review from one of Amazon’s top 50 reviewers.
Here are some of the things folks have [...]

A copy of the much-coveted hardcover edition of 4×4 has showed up on eBay.
$165.62 as I post this. That won’t last long, as previous auctions have seen it go as high as $700. Make with the clicky.

J.F. Gonzalez and I have signed the contracts for an electronic edition of Restore from Backup to be released this June from Lovecraft Press (news release here). Somehow that seems more appropriate for a horror novella drawing on our mutual IT experiences.
Also in the works is a reprint of the novella in an upcoming anthology. [...]

The big talk of the werewolf fan communities is whether or not there will be a surge of popularity in werewolf media following the release of The Wolfman. I saw the flick Friday night, and you know, it’s really hard to say.
The movie itself is good. It’s feel is very faithful to the original, and [...]

Been thinking about picking up The Pack: Winter Kill? What are you waiting for? It’s a crime thriller with supernatural horror thrown in, and so far fans of each have been happy. I’ve got folks nagging me for book 2, and that hasn’t been happening for a long time now.
If you need to hear it [...]

Here are a few things said recently about The Pack: Winter Kill:
The Pack: Winter Kill is a page turner with fast action, succinct dialogue and short chapters. Mike Oliveri races you through the book and you clamber to turn the pages fast enough.
– Ron Earl Phillips, 52 Books
Winter Kill is an action film made word. [...]

Or I could say Springfield, MO, survived VisionCon. The local HuHot staff almost got their heads kicked in by Brian Keene, Wrath James White and I, but that’s another story.
This year’s con was a bit bigger than last year’s, and as always the con staff and crowd was great to work with. I set up [...]

I’m making the final preparations for this weekend’s signing trip, which will include turning the blog over to travel mode. Assuming I have time to take pics and fire off some Tweets from the road, they’ll be showing up here in daily digests. I suspect I’ll either be thrilled with the crowds at Dark Delicacies [...]