Happy Halloween

The bride and groom who slay together, stay together.

Halloween Bash with M.R. Gott

When M.R. asked me to write a posting about what Halloween means to me, at first I was stymied. Anybody who knows me knows that I am a certified Monster Kid, and have been as far back as I can remember. I live, eat, and sleep this stuff. Most people wake up from a nightmare and turn on a light to drive the demons away; I wake up and jot down the details for my next short story. However, this year Halloween means something more to me.

Read the entire posting at M.R. Gott's Where the Dead Fear to Tread.

Dead Water Will Be Free for Halloween

To celebrate Halloween, Keith Publications is giving away several of its horror novellas for free on 31 October, including Dead Water. So give yourself a special treat for Halloween and be sure to fill your Kindle bag with a bunch of free horror e-books. 

On Our Way to Spooky Empire

Tomorrow morning, Alison Beightol and I will be on our way to Spooky Empire in Orlando.  We will have tables at the convention all weekend.  Alison will be signing Blood of New Beginning as well as her latest novel, Blood Betrayal.  I will be signing Rotter World and several of my anthologies, and will have some exciting news about upcoming projects.   

For those who will be there for the entire weekend, check out the panels I'll be sitting on:

Friday, 7 PM:  Brains vs. Blood
Friday, 9 PM:  Sick and Twisted

Saturday, 1 PM:  Writing 101
Saturday, 7 PM:  Hunter's Delight
Saturday, 8 PM:  Apocalyptic Literature

Hope to see you all there.

Only 20 Days Until Spooky Empire

Photos from the Infect Scranton Convention

As promised, below I've included some of the photos I took at the Infect Scranton convention last weekend. 

Me in the author's section.

With fellow Permuted Press authors Kim Paffenroth and Jackie Druga.

I also got to meet Lew "Axel" Temple from The Walking Dead.  I told him that we hated to see him die, but that at least his death was epic.

Many thanks to Michele Anne Boyle and her husband Tom for being great fans.

One of the highlights of the weekend was getting to know some of the cast members from the original Dawn of the Dead: Len "machete zombie" Lies, me, Sharon "nurse zombie" Ceccatti-Hill, Mike "Hare Krishna zombie" Christopher, and Jim "helicopter zombie" Krut.

PERMUTED PRESS' FRIDAY THE 13TH PROMO SALE

See, Friday the 13th isn't always unlucky. Tomorrow the prices on most of Permuted Press' books are being slashed like a teenager at Camp Crystal Lake. There are some great novels on sale tomorrow. Rotter World is .99 cents for the Kindle version and $13.46 for the paperback edition. So check it out and pick up some great zombie novels.