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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 [...]

The San Francisco Chronicle just published an article in their Books section leading up to my signing at Borderlands Books this Sunday at 3pm:
Written by Louis Peitzman, the full article is “Mike Oliveri: He’s betting on werewolves“.
Way, way cool.

There’s a lot going on this week for my new book, The Pack: Winter Kill.
First up, the first reviews have been rolling in to Amazon (both the paperback and the Kindle edition), and so far they’ve been very positive. The noir-horror hybrid seems to be a big hit, and people have been happy with the [...]

Last month, Evileye Books added Cullen Bunn & Shawn Lee to their roster with the Raze series. This month they expand again with John Urbancik’s new series DarkWalker. You can find a more complete announcement on Indie Pulp, and the first book is due in May.
These are exciting times for the company. I may have [...]

Alright, folks. The response went so well for the Twitter contest a few weeks back that we’ve decided to throw out another contest. The prize this time? A copy of the limited edition, signed and numbered hardcover edition of The Pack: Winter Kill!
Here’s the scoop:
The first 200 people to post reviews or blurbs on the [...]

Braving the Illinois Tundra
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri
I had a snow day today, and I decided it would be a good time to sit down and evaluate what kind of writing I have ahead of me for 2010.
For starters, the follow-up to The Pack: Winter Kill will be due. I’ll need to turn in an outline [...]

Vampires and zombies have had their due. Welcome to the Year of the Wolf.
A little movie called The Wolfman is part of that feeling, and it doesn’t hurt that some of you watched a werewolf square off against some sparkling vampires in another little movie called New Moon, but this will be the year I [...]