Posts under ‘Writing’

This Thursday the 20th I will be on the Internet radio show The Parafactor at 10pm Central/11pm Eastern!
Visit www.theparafactor.com for details and to listen in live. I’ll be following Brad Steiger, author of Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse.
Tune in, jump in their live chat, or better yet, call in to [...]

I decided to inject a little marketing into this week’s Photo Friday.
Thanks to the magic that is Amazon Kindle, you can get a copy of The Pack: Winter Kill on most mobile devices. Here we’ve got a MacBook Pro, an iPad, an iPod touch, and my wife’s Kindle. If my particular BlackBerry had been supported, [...]

Apparently I can’t just sit down and relax. I have way too much to do and not enough time to do it.
I can’t believe it’s May already.
I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday this week. I blink and another day is gone.
I have another book to write, two more short stories to write, and I’m developing [...]

Mr Ommus from Evileye Books has just learned The Pack: Winter Kill is now showing up in the Borders catalog! Stop in at your local Borders store and you’ll be able to order my book.
Very, very cool. Now all we need is their buyers to notice us and start stocking the book on the shelves.
That [...]

Today J.F. Gonzalez pointed out the existence of this book:

When does this stop? A wiser man than I recently said:

“Talent sustains and bullshit fails to sell after a very short while.”

I hope so. Look, for all I know, this Porter Grand guy crafts better prose than any other writer on the planet. The part that [...]

For those of you not into ordering books online, Evileye Books and I have put together a simple form you can take to your favorite retailer to place an order. Just print out the form, hand it to the folks behind the counter, and wait for your book to arrive!

The form contains everything they’ll need [...]

Driving in to the convention on Saturday afternoon, Ommus and I saw a wide open parking lot on the north side of the convention center and worried the con was a bust. The first few hallways we walked down were likewise empty, and the line for tickets was only ten or fifteen people long. If [...]

It’s Earth Day! Why buy a paper copy of The Pack: Winter Kill when you can get a Kindle digital copy delivered instantly? It looks just as sharp on your Kindle reader, your desktop, or your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad as the real thing!
And hey, go recycle something, too, eh?

I was sorry to hear about the passing of George Scithers, a former editor for Weird Tales magazine.
Unfortunately I’ve never met him, but I have exchanged a few letters with him while submitting stories. He was one of few editors I received personalized rejections (and advice) from when I was first getting started ten or [...]

The best part about Google Alerts? They notify me when reviews of my work show up online. In this case, The Horror Fiction Review covered The Pack: Winter Kill and gave it four out of five stars. Sweet.
Here’s part of what the reviewer Colleen Wanglund had to say:
In this first book in a planned series, [...]