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Quickly becoming one of my favourite online book review sites. They have been very supportive of both mylefteye and I, and now they've made a recent post about our books making it onto the Stoker preliminary ballot, wishing us good luck. In the post, they also link to a reviews of our books and interviews they conducted a while back with each of us. If you ( Read more... )

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Below is the official preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award, announced earlier today. Congratulations to everyone who made the list. It's a long way from making the final ballot, but I'm honoured to be included among so many writers I respect and admire. Voting will begin on the first of February, so if there are any Active HWA members ( Read more... )

(And the first meme I've ever done -- I don't even know what "meme" technically means!)

Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

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It's cold where I live right now. Real cold. Cold enough to make Canadians complain about the cold. Today, the high (the HIGH, mind you) is -13 (did I mention that's the high?), the low is -20, and with the windchill...well, it's better we don't even talk about what it feels like with the windchill. The past two mornings, my car was seriously ( Read more... )

I've just found out a couple of cool things online that are giving me a little extra incentive to celebrate tonight.

First, Frozen Blood has been mentioned on FearZone's list of Favourite Fears of 2008:

FAVORITE FEARSOME MOMENT (Any Medium)

Joel A. Sutherland literally took my breath away with an incident in the opening chapter of his freshman novel ( Read more... )

Christmas has passed me by in a blur and New Year's is knocking on the door. In the middle, somewhere, was the release date of my first novel ( Read more... )

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Christmas just keeps on coming early this year, as December has been packed with exciting writing news. The first chapter, in its entirety, of Frozen Blood appears on the very popular horror news website, FearZone. This is what the editor of the site, Greg Lamberson, had to say before the free excerpt:

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