Welcome to Gleefully Macabre!

Welcome to my website! Whether you were brought here by interest in my work or a Google search gone terribly wrong, I encourage you to hang around and start clicking away!

My new novella, Stalking You Now, is now available for your Kindle or Kindle app (other digital editions forthcoming) from DarkFuse. Grab yourself a copy from Amazon.

My second short story collection, Dead Clown Barbecue, is available for pre-order in snazzy deluxe limited and lettered hardcover editions for you collector types. Get it from Dark Regions Press.

My young adult comedy, A Bad Day For Voodoo, is now available at a bookstore near you from Sourcebooks, or online in e-book and paperback editions!

And my novels Pressure and Dweller have both returned in shiny new digital editions, for a scant $2.99 each!

Finally, all four novels in the Andrew Mayhem series are available in a $7.99 digital box set, with a brand-new foreword by James A. Moore!

(P.S.: People who leave reviews on Amazon deserve great big hugs!)

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Wordier Than Thou

Looking for something to do on Thursday, May 23rd? Do you live near St. Petersburg, Florida? I realize that this narrows the Internet down a bit, but if YOU fall into this lucky category, then you’ll definitely want to come to Wordier Than Thou. It’s a monthly open mic at L Train, and this month I’ll be one of the Featured Readers, along with Beth Adele Long. The event is run by Tiffany Razzano. 

C’mon out! Listen to me read stuff! If you’re a writer, read stuff yourself! 

Doors open at 7:00 PM. Things start happening at 8:00. Get more information HERE. 

 

Texas Library Association

This week I’ll be in Fort Worth for the Texas Library Association conference. If you’re also going to be at the TLA conference, I strongly encourage you to wander over to the Sourcebooks booth at 1:00 PM on Thursday, April 25th, where I will be signing copies of A Bad Day For Voodoo. They’re FREE, so even if you chuck your copy in the trash as soon as you round the corner, please stop by.

I’ll also be at the Texas Teens 4 Libraries event on Friday, from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. Author Mari Marcusi will be representing Sourcebooks with me, so hopefully she’ll be able to undo all of the damage I wreak upon the company as I bumble through the evening.

And if you’ve got any recommendations for good Fort Worth barbecue, please share them here!

The Perdition of Zephyr Hopkins

If most people were offered the choice of A) being chased by an axe-wielding psycho, or B) getting laid off from their job, they would wisely select option B. I mean, c’mon, nobody wants an axe-wielding psycho chasing them. It’s only common sense. However, if you asked most people what they were more worried about, they’d go with option A. (And axe-wielding psychos use this to their advantage, going after their unsuspecting victims while they are distracted by worries of being laid off.)

So though author Jesse S. Greever calls his novella The Perdition of Zephyr Hopkins “part horror story,” it doesn’t contain any traditional horror elements. It’s actually a novella about a guy who loses his job and doesn’t want to admit it to his wife. Oh, sure, he’ll have to tell her about it at some point, or, y’know, maybe he’ll find another job before their finances take a real hit and everything will be just fine.

SPOILER: Everything is not just fine.

It’s a story about a guy who has really screwed up, and has to continue to screw up because otherwise his wife will find out how badly he screwed up, in which case he’s totally screwed. And I had a nice little knot in my stomach while I was reading it. 

The Kindle edition is only 99 cents, so even if you’re unemployed and hiding it from your family and desperately trying to figure out how to make ends meet, it’s a bargain! 

Get it HERE.

 

Cult Movie Mania Returns!

Sweeeeeet! The Cult Movie Mania Screaming Cinema series is returning to the Tampa Pitcher Show in Tampa, Florida. Last year this series played such flicks as Slime City Massacre, Chillerama, Bellflower, The Theatre Bizarre, Dear God No (where my wife had to walk out because even though she looked away from the screen, the sound effects in one scene were too gross), Father’s Day, and other messed up stuff.

This year’s lineup includes John Dies at the End, The Manson Family, Lost Faith, Excision, Bloody Bloody Bible Camp, and Cosmopolis. The series runs Friday nights at 10:30 PM, starting on April 26th. (Of course, I’ll be out of town for the Texas Library Association conference on April 26th, so have fun without me, jerks!) 

Check out the Cult Movie Mania website for all the details.

Stokers/WHC 2013!

Hey, kids, it’s almost time for the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Weekend + World Horror Convention! It’s in New Orleans on June 13-16. They’ve posted a draft of the programming schedule at the official website (http://www.stokers2013.org) and here’s where I’ll be:

Thursday, June 13. 6:00 – 7:00 PM. Opening Ceremony & Cocktail Reception. I’m the toastmaster, so I’ll be saying a few quick words to welcome everybody. Then I’ll shut up so you can get to the socializing and cocktails.

Thursday, June 13. 8:00 – 9:00 PM. Panel: Co-Authoring – The Do’s And The Don’ts. A panel on the insane art of collaborations. Mark Scioneaux is moderating, and the crowded panel will also include Lynne Hansen, Sally Bosco, Rocky Wood, Dana Fredsti, and Stan Swanson. 

Friday, June 14. 12:30 – 1:00 PM. Reading. Yes, I will be standing in front of a huge crowd room hopefully containing people and reading stuff. Please show up. Please?

Friday, June 14. 7:00 – 9:00 PM. Mass Signing. All of the authors in one room, signing their books! It’ll be chaos! Chaos! Bring your books from home and I’ll scrawl my name on them, even if I didn’t write them. This event is free and open to the public, so if you live on the same continent as New Orleans, make sure you attend.

Saturday, June 15. 7:30 – 10:45 PM. Bram Stoker Awards Banquet. Will A Bad Day For Voodoo win the Stoker for Best Young Adult Novel? Probably not, but that doesn’t matter, because as the Master of Ceremonies I’ll be right up there on stage, ready to grab the trophy and run. This is my fifth time as emcee, and I promise all new jokes. 

Sunday, June 16. 1:00 – 2:00 PM. Closing Ceremonies. I guess I’ll be expected to say something here, but let’s be honest, this far into the weekend, it’s not going to be great. 

Are YOU going to be there? (Correct answer: Yes.)

Fangboy Auf Deutsch

Oooooh, creepy! Here’s the cover for the German edition of Fangboy, available now from Voodoo Press. (My original title for the novel was The Adventures of Fangboy, which is why this new title translates as Fangboy’s Adventure.) 

http://www.voodoo-press.com/content/cart/demnachst/fangboys-abenteuer/

Coral Springs Festival of the Arts

I’ve already posted that I’ll be at the Coral Springs Festival of the Arts on Saturday and Sunday, March 16th and 17th, but if you wanted more details…

On Saturday, I’ll be doing a signing at Barnes & Noble from 2:30 to 3:30 PM. After that, I’ll be rushing over to the NW Regional Library for my 4:00 PM talk on “Stick With It! Sustaining Your Writing Passion in a Brutal Business!”

On Sunday from 2:00 to 3:30 PM, also at the library, I’ll be joining authors Lynne Hansen, James A. Moore, Christopher Golden, John McIlveen, Laurianne MacDonald, Jamie Morris, and Mike Mayo for a Q&A. They’re all doing individual presentations, too, so check out http://www.csfoa.org/festival-of-the-arts-literary-workshop.html for the schedule!

It’s all free, so attendance is mandatory.