Books and Blogs

Z Day is Here: One Year Later has been out a few months now and doing great.  It took a while, but the book is finally listed on the publishers website. http://permutedpress.com/books/z-day-is-here-one-year-later

One of the side projects I do is running a blog/review website (www.popculturejunction.com).  The site has been down for a little while….ok, way too long, but it is being resurrected. We have some great writers, some new and some long time writers and will even have some guest writers joining us in the future.  On the site, we review anything pop culture related, from movies, TV, music, and beer, to book, photography, and “Manly” products.  There is a little of everything on there. The site should be up in the next couple days. I tend to write more about music, since next to movies, music is a MAJOR part of my life.  So please be sure to check it out and share it with your friends.

ON the writing side of my life, I am working on a few different projects. A couple of them I can not talk about, but once I am able to, please believe I will be talking about them until I am blue in the face. One I can talk about is a new horror script I have started working on. I wrote the outline a few months ago and have been working slowly on it, developing it into something marketable and fresh.  As most people know, I am a HUGE fan of horror, mostly slasher films from the 80’s, and have felt like lately horror has been watered down way too much. I feel like what the studios are pushing out and what people really want to see are two totally different things. I think we have reached a point in movie making, where people flock to the theater to see the latest remake and sequel in hopes that it will capture the feelings we had the first time we saw it, but mostly we leave disappointed. Now, I am a fan of a well made sequel and have often expressed my love of the Dawn of the Dead remake from 2004, but more often than not, the remakes tend to turn out like the unbelievably awful Day of the Dead remake.  So I strive to write something new and exciting, something that could spawn horrible sequels for years to come.  Something that feels familiar, yet completely new. I have to give a major shout out to Mitch Hyman for helping me and giving me pointers on it.  Mitch has been a big help on lots of my writings and deserves all the fame and fortune that comes his way!   I’ll post a little more once I have more written on it and will keep everyone up to date with the developments.

Lets clear some stuff up

So someone made a comment a few days ago about me previously being associated with Living Dead Press.  I am not nor have I every been with Living Dead Press.  I originally had “Z Day is Here” published with Library of the Living Dead, and once the contract ended, I chose to go a different direction and we parted on very good terms.

Secondly, I moderate every comment that comes in to this page, so if you are here to bash myself or any or the readers, it will simply go into the trash pile, especially if you do not give your real name.

Criticism is good and makes me a better writer and opens others eyes to your point of view, but making fun of people is not acceptable on this page.

Now having said that, go check out my review of the Mayhem Fest on the From Dusk Till Con website.

http://www.fromdusktillcon.com/content/reviews/165-reviews-showcase/2116-rockstar-mayhem-fest-2012-atlanta

Also, got word that the Illustrations for my kids book are almost finished, so we are getting closer and closer.  Very excited for everyone to read it and see the fantastic drawings!