Lineup Announced for the Racine, Wisconsin Barnes & Noble Local Author's Day

Here is the list I was just sent of the authors who will be appearing at the Barnes & Noble in Racine, Wisconsin on August 16th, 2014.  (Schedules permitting, of course.)

My fellow Post Mortem Press author, Christian Larsen, will be there as well.  (He's the one who gave me the heads up about the event.  Thanks again, Chris!)

Adult Authors:        
1 - Michael Matula (author of Try Not to Burn)
2 - Richard Thomas (author of The New Black)   
3 - Anita Meyer (author of The Primordial Language—Confirmation of the Divine Creator)    
4 - Carol Schaufel (author of By the Grace of God and You: An Autobiography)   
5 - Christian Larsen (author of Losing Touch)    
6 - Diana Kanecki (author of Summer Love)    
7 - George Fennell (author of Racine, Wisconsin: Drum and Bugle Corps Capital of the World)    
8 - Michael Major (author of One Man’s Castle)
9 - JoBe Cerny (author of Red Cin)   
10 - Marcie Eanes (author of Passion’s Zest)    

Children’s book authors:        
1 - Sandra Nowicki (author of Sparkles the Rainbow Pony)     
2 - Karen Franco (author of Just Hold My Hand)    
3 - Linda Hocutt (author of Where’s Charlie?)

Picture book authors will take over the event from 10 am to 11:30 am (I think I'll be sitting that one out), then there will be a Panel of Authors from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, moderated by the B&N community manager and featuring the Adult Authors listed above.  A writing workshop is scheduled for 1 to 2 pm, and then audience members will be able to stretch their legs and mix and mingle with the authors from 2 to 3, during the "Open House" portion of the event. 

I'm very much looking forward to it.  Hope to see you there, if you're in the area. 

Of Ghost Stories and Haunted Pez Dispensers

My contributor copy for Sekhmet Press' recent anthology, Wrapped in White, arrived in the mail just the other day.  I took a couple of snapshots of it (as one does), but when I was developing the film, I noticed a rather odd image superimposed on the photo.  Some people have told me it might be a spirit trying to communicate with me from beyond the grave.  I tend to believe it's a small hunk of plastic that caught the light a certain way, simply making it look like an otherworldly presence. 

In either case, I thought I'd share the image, so you can see this mysterious and rather baffling presence for yourself. (Cue X-Files theme music.)

Ever Feel Like You're Stuck in a Time Loop?

This latest review is the 2nd time my work's been compared to Groundhog Dag in the last month.  Hmm...I'm starting to feel like I'm stuck in some sort of loop, with no means of escape...

Anyway, here's a snippet of that review, which I recently received on Amazon for my supernatural thriller, Try Not to Burn: 

"The setting and tone is wonderful. I pictured an urban setting of metallic run down apartment buildings, with tunnels underneath. It was vivid as a scene from the movie Sin City. The Gral are like policeman of the state, and straight out of a Halo Xbox game. Along with some big slippery snakes and demons in disguise, they make wonderful monsters. It seemed a melding of the earthy caverns of hell with a sci-fi like metallic science fiction, and an almost steampunk technology.

World-building ruled the day, and it is an awesome world with wonderful implications. For example, if you live and make it to the night time bell, you wake up the next day 'reset' with your original belongings. Groundhog Day meets the Matrix."