As a thank you for being a member of his mailing list, Jason Gurley sent me a free copy of his first short story collection – Deep Breath Hold Tight : … Read More
The Dark Age by Jason Gurley
I first came across Jason Gurley on the writers’ cafe forums on kboards. He’d just lost his job and was selling some very impressive premade book covers. Since then he’s become one of … Read More
Pennsylvania Book Bomb
Today is Pennsylvania book bomb day. That’s nice. What’s a book bomb? Well, it’s a concerted effort to sell as many copies of a book as possible in a single day – usually launch … Read More
Altered Perceptions is Live
The IndieGoGo project I mentioned on Saturday is now live (now called Altered Perceptions). Here’s the video explaining a little about the project. There’s some great rewards including dinner with Brandon … Read More
New Anthology – Altered Perspectives
Dan Wells (author of I am Not a Serial Killer and other splendid books) has announced a new anthology to raise funds to help his brother, Robison Wells (also an accomplished author) … Read More
Michael Bunker on Indie Book Quality
I’m a bit late getting to this but Michael Bunker, author of (among other things) the Amish science fiction novel Pennsylvania has an interesting post up about the quality of Indie Books … Read More
A Year in Books – 2013
According to Goodreads, I read 38 books last year (some of which are short stories): That could easily be the largest number of books I’ve read in a year since … Read More
Hanging with the Bone Boy
My love of horror started somewhere around 1989 with two books – Immortal Blood by Barbara Hambly (published as Those Who Hunt the Night outside of the UK) and Clive Barker’s … Read More
Lost Souls
Every reader a book that really speaks to them, mine is Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite. I read Lost Souls right in the middle of my goth/horror phase – it was the … Read More
