Monsters! Monsters! Monsters! (Soon.)

Yeah, my blog has been silent for a while. The death of my grandfather last week prompted an 18-hour-each-way road trip, and the realization that the poem "Footprints in the Sand," even when read with great passion at a funeral, doesn't have quite the same impact when you already know the surprise ending (SPOILER WARNING!) where it turns out that the guy had misidentified the source of the footprints and was, in fact, being carried. I mean, it's certainly one of the classic twist endings, but when you know in advance how it all turns out, the guy seems like kind of a whiner, and the whole conversation between him and the Lord is just uncomfortable and socially awkward.

I may do a lightning round of quick blog spewings sometime this weekend, if only to comment on the fact that the latest batch of flamewars on the horror message boards were so deeply pathetic that I hereby retract my essay "Confessions of a Flamewar Junkie" from a while back.

Meanwhile...THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR, my action-packed monster-laden novel co-written with the mighty James A. Moore (author of BLOOD RED, SERENITY FALLS, and BLOODSTAINED OZ, which he co-authored with Christopher Golden, who co-authored GHOSTS OF ALBION with Amber Benson, meaning that I've got three degrees of separation between myself and Willow's girlfriend. Woo-hoo!) will be going up for pre-order very, very soon. The cover is beyond awesome. Keep watching this space, kiddies!