Come join Kathy Ptacek, Gary Frank, Eileen Watkins, myself, and others as we talk about marketing fiction. Following the panel will be a signing. I will have copies of FOUND YOU on hand, for anyone who wants to pick one up. And if you want me to sign anything you already have, bring it along!
Wanted to wish you folks Happy Holidays. To family and friends, I love you. To acquaintances and colleagues, I’m glad for you. To readers and fans, I’m thankful to you. To those I’ve just must, I’m excited to know you. To those who are lost to me now, and those lost to me forever, I remember and miss you.
So, I’m quoted in Michael Knost’s article, “The Aha! Moment,” which is up at Cemetery Dance’s Writers’ Corner.
Hey folks, just a heads-up (or a reminder, if you didn’t know) that you can come chat with me at my forum, hosted by the lovely and talented Brian Keene. Sign up and say hi, ask questions, bring wine, heckle, whatever. Come visit me and make me feel loved and special and warm all over, okay?
Was going to write a con report but no one reads them (ha ha ha). So, here are highlights of the trip:
- Meeting and chatting with Linda Blair, Chris Sarandon, Tom Savini, Cerina Vincent, Brian Krause, Ed Gale, Adrienne Barbeau, John Landis, and others
- The Elvira impersonator. He had the biggest boobs I’ve ever seen
- Taking a picture of Christine — the deadliest car I’ve ever seen (that I was NOT behind the wheel of)
- “Accidentally” molesting Brian Krause when we were taking pictures (swoon – my new fantasy boyfriend, in addition to RR and SM)
- The pool party — picture drunken goths in their underwear (or less) singing karaoke (badly)
- All the panels — they were a lot of fun, and packed with intelligent and interesting attendees
- The Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum
- DVD loot score!!!
Thanks to all the readers, fans, and other cool folks I met or chatted with this weekend. It was great meeting Tim, Adam, Alice, Gary, Anthony, Lelia and more (please forgive me if I’m forgetting names) and seeing Phil and Anya, Jeff and Lynn, Owl and Nancy. Special thanks to Owl for inviting us! It was a great time.
Hi, everyone,
Just a reminder that if you’ll be in the Orlando area, I will be a guest at Spooky Empire Con, and will be doing some panels and signing copies of FOUND YOU all weekend. Below is a schedule of where I’ll be and when:
Spooky Empire Con 2009 Author Programming and Signings
Friday
9:00 PM SIGNING
Kevin A. Ranson, Mary SanGiovanni
Saturday
12:00 PM SIGNING
Richard Lee Byers, Mary SanGiovanni
6:00 PM THE HORROR GENRE — A WOMAN’S POV
How do women perceive horror victims? Is there any bias between female and male horror writers?
[Alice Henderson, Mary SanGiovanni, Lynne Hansen (M)]
11:00 PM SCARED HOT: SEX & HORROR
Sexy vampires, seductive shape-shifters. Why does sex and horror go so well together?
[Lynne Hansen, Mary SanGiovanni, Robert Massetti, Steven Shea, Adam-Troy Castro (M)
Sunday
11:00 AM THE THING IN THE BASEMENT
From forgotten caverns to the New York subway, our experts explore their favorite underground horrors.
[Mary SanGiovanni, Vince Courtney, Del Stone Jr. (M), Owl Goingback]
3:00 PM CHOOSING YOUR MONSTERS
Which monsters are over-used? Which are still untapped resources of evil?
[Mary SanGiovanni (M), Tim Anderson, Jeff Strand, Alice Henderson]
Okay, I don’t know how I missed this, but…here it is.
So I am now officially a shiny new member of The Authors Guild. I’m pleased as punch that they accepted my membership, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing what they have to offer.
Hey folks — if you’ll be in Orlando for Spooky Empire Con next month, I’ll be signing copies of THE HOLLOWER and FOUND YOU. Here’s the schedule:
FRI 9:00 PM Kevin A. Ranson, Mary SanGiovanni
SAT 12:00 PM Richard Lee Byers, Mary SanGiovanni
SUN 4:00 PM Steve Alten, Mary SanGiovanni
For all you tech-savvy folks out there, I see that Amazon has Kindle versions of my books out now. This delights me immensely. If any of you do have a Kindle and you pick it up, let me know how it looks….