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2012 - A Cautionary Tale (with a happy ending)
Lots of my writer friends are doing year-end wrap-ups of their 2012 accomplishments. I enjoy reading them. I'm happy to see sales made and books published. We have a good community ( Read more... ) -
Ben Ethridge and Me
A few years back, a young guy named Benjamin Kane Ethridge started e-mailing me; he had a new novel out called Black and Orange, and since it was about Halloween and since I was a Halloween expert, would I read it? I did...and it was wild. In the beginning, I wasn't even sure about it, but Ben kept working on it and revising it and polishing, and ( Read more... ) -
Chain interview
My comrade Gary Fry recently tagged me with these interview questions, so here goes:
1) What is the working title of your next book?
Summer's End - it's a Halloween-themed novella.
2) Where did the idea come from for the book?
The research I did on my last non-fiction Halloween book, Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween. I pinned down the source of ( Read more... ) -
Shooting zombies
I figure if this whole zombie apocalypse thing is about to be on us, then I want to be ready...and what better way than to dive headfirst into the coming and very lucrative market of zombie photography? Zombie family portraits...zombie photography monographs...and of course zombie photography. Here's a look at my growing portfolio of zombie ( Read more... ) -
The most haunted place in L.A.
Today I took a trip to visit a location that has obsessed me for years, but that I'd never found before. It was this place:
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Why WILD GIRLS isn't just a lark
Last weekend, I hosted a booth for HWA at an event called The Great American Pitchfest. Over the course of eight hours, my pal and fellow member Brad Hodson and I spoke to hundreds of writers, and certain questions came up over and over. One of those went something like this: "Is horror just all blood and guts?"
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Michael Louis Calvillo - An Appreciation
(This piece was written for the HWA Newsletter, and will appear in the next issue. However, I decided to post it here as well since I'd like all of Michael's family and friends to have a chance at reading it.)
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