News & My Blog
Beyond Sundown is finished and in the hands of Ginjer Buchanan, my editor at Berkley. I will let you know when I have word whether they are picking it up. If they do not, it will definitely be published. More on this later.
UPCOMING APPEARANCE: May 8 at Draculacon in Windber, Penn. You can find info on this on the con's website, Draculacon.com. I will be there through the weekend.
UPDATE: The Shattered Glass outtake, Ebb Tide, telling a bit more about what Charles was up to while Stephen was wooing Helen appears in Moonstone Book's Vampires anthology, which just released. This story appeared years ago in a chapbook edited by Margaret Carter, so I am glad it will be getting more exposure so many years after the novel was published. You can order the book at www.moonstonebooks.com Along with my piece there are others from PN Elrod and Nancy Kilpatrick, and many others.
A look at metro-zombies, Just the Way You Are, will appear in Moonstone Book's Zombies anthology due out sometime next year.
Reading Update: If you have not discovered Wally Lamb's second book, I Know This Much Is True, pick it up. It looks incredibly hefty and you may be damning me at 4a.m. when you are still up reading but it incredible - and such a surprise after the rather insipid She's Come Undone.
Also, I just finished Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. I didn't think she could top The Time Traveler's Wife, but she did. Set in Highgate Cemetery, this ghost story has plenty of gothic elements and a little Kitten of Death. I could not put it down!
As some of you know, I actually do have a non-novel-writing occupation...as a feature writer for Channel Guide Magazine. In the last year or so, Channel Guide has put together a really impressive site, channelguidemag.com. It features longer versions of many of my interviews. If you click on the archives, you’ll find a list of previous issues.
