I'm a few days back from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and sufficiently recovered as to make a token effort at a wrap-up post. As always, I had a great time at what is consistently my favorite convention/festival/gathering of the year, with my only complaint being that there is never enough time for all the people I want to see, movies I want to ( Read more... )

In just a few short days I'll be catching a plane to Portland for the 20th anniversary of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. This will be my third consecutive year as a guest of the festival, and it's always a great time. There'll be movies, of course, including a black-and-white 1960 Christopher Lee flick that I've never seen before, and way cooler ( Read more... )

Starting tomorrow, I'll be joining Sean Demory and the rest of the Pine Float Press crowd to celebrate the launch of Slow Boat to Fast City at ConQuest in KC. I'll be doing a handful of panels, and a reading on Saturday. Here's a link to my full schedule, which I'll also reproduce below. Slow Boat to Fast City is a shared-world "raygun Gothic pulp ( Read more... )

The World Horror Convention in Atlanta has been in the rearview for almost a week now, though I feel like I'm the one who's still catching up. I hadn't originally planned to attend this year, but local writing compatriots Bear Weiter and Steve Scearce decided we should get our road trip on and head on down to Atlanta for the weekend, which made the ( Read more... )

I'll spare you all the "hey hey heys" and just say that what's been going on is "a lot." Besides the various personal stuff that I've already covered, my mom has been in and out of the hospital three times over the last month-and-a-half. The last time they resectioned a part of her colon, and we're waiting to hear back on the prognosis, not about ( Read more... )

As was the case last year, I worked the Downright Creepy/Rotten Rentals booth at Panic Fest at the lovely and fantastic Screenland Armour over the weekend, once more in the face of some less-than-optimal weather, though much better than last year's ice storm. Unlike last year, I actually got to see a couple of movies this time, including a double- ( Read more... )

Well, that's another Crypticon in the rear view, and like last year, I had more fun than I would have expected, and managed to sell a few books to boot, so I'm calling it a win. I split a table with Sean Demory, Marshall Edwards, and the fine folks from the KC Conjure Shop, who brought along a bowl of chicken feet that got a surprisingly strong ( Read more... )

This weekend, I'll be at Crypticon KC. Like last year, I'll be splitting a table with friend and fellow local writer Sean Demory, although this year we're actually part of a bigger group with a bunch of local horror authors who'll have a sort of "author's alley" going on, so come visit our long table full of books, say hi, and pick up some good ( Read more... )

While I wasn't looking, June crept up and became the busiest month that I've had so far as a full-time writer. I didn't really even realize it until I was making out invoices at the end of the month. I was planning to wait until a year had passed before I did any kind of "how it's been going" round-up, and I probably still will, but it seemed like ( Read more... )

Forgive my penmanship, my hand shakes as I write these words. It has been more than a week since my return from the lands beyond those cyclopean peaks, and yet I still struggle to record my thoughts. Upon my return, haggard and half-mad, the doctors told me I should seek a rest-cure for at least a week, or else risk complete nervous collapse. Even ( Read more... )