Tomorrow we’ll be getting up bright and early to catch a bus to New York City. This is only my second time going to NYC and the first time we’ve attended the Stoker awards. I’m looking forward to seeing Mike Arnzen and Mark McLaughlin again, plus we’ll meet mysterious author J.M. Heluk for the first…

Rod Lott over at Bookgasm seems to really have enjoyed Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word. This paragraph in particular cracked me up: One of the more entertaining pieces has Warner dissecting dialogue from an early draft of Brian Keene’s CITY OF THE DEAD and the published version of J.K. Rowling’s HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER…

“Westermead, a collection of tales by Scott Thomas (Shadows of Flesh), depicts an inviting fantasy world of both loveliness and horror through the four seasons.” —Publishers Weekly Consider this your personal invitation: Amazon.com has theWestermead hardcover at an introductory discount right now of $20.43 And the Fugue XXIX hardcover is a mere $19.77. A person…

Looks like Amazon has decided to do something about people who snag free content from the internet, format it as an ebook and sell it for Kindle. I blogged about this awhile back (http://raw-dog.livejournal.com/245555.html). I figured this kind of thing was behind the email we recently got explaining what type of content is acceptable for…

The logo I did for Blindside Publishing is now up!! Check out the very cool site: http://www.blindside.net/ blindsidepubs really made the logo look good with such a classy site. I can’t wait to see this logo on some books! When Jon first asked me to do the logo I wasn’t sure I could pull it…

Today I’ve been working on a little icon to use between breaks inEverybody Scream!. The book is set at the Punktown Fair so at first I wanted to do a roller coaster. But that didn’t work out so it looks like it will be a Ferris Wheel. I know I’m spending too much time on…