Friday
October 31st
1:50 a.m.
Man, Halloween already… Hard to believe, but it’s here. Wish I was up in Jersey, celebratin’ with Zach and the gang at the Chiller Theatre Horror Expo, but money’s tight and the move put us behind on some creative endeavors, so we hadda sit this one out. April, though, my pretties, I shall definitely be up in the Tri-state area again come April, when we’ll be releasing our first comic-industry project in more than two years, with the launch of The Soil’s Embrace, the sequel portfolio to Gardens of the Dead, which you may recall I partnered up on with Bernie Wrightson. Well, by all accounts, artist Rob Granito’s rough pencils are mind-blowing, and everybody who I’ve forwarded the sample pencils to agree—this one is better. Yeah, wrap your brains around *that.* Better? You damn well bet I wanna get this thing out for Chiller April.
Today was a damned good day. Spent the early part of it with my coffin sitting in the living room, half a dead body, and hotter-than-hell model Tiffany Upshaw stretchin’ out the new Bunker tee shirts. Pics’ll either be up today or tomorrow, so either you see ‘em here or you don’t. I send the text to my web guru, Mabel, separately, so keep your eyes open if you don’t see a sexy chick with a smokin’ hot body wearing yours truly’s merch on this page.
Still waiting on a date for the arrival of the sound design raw files so I can get to work on smoothing out the final wrinkles on the American cut of The Bunker. Haven’t heard anything about that in a couple of days, but finished going over the Euro uncut TV version. It’ll take some work to match up stuff to the American version, but with Hollywood closing down for the holidays right after the American Film Market, I should have time to lock things down to be able to hit the ground running Jan. 1. If not, then it could take a little longer, but hopefully, that can be avoided. Been waiting long enough to wrap this up and pimp it.
On a more upbeat note, I’m finally ready to announce that I’ve been invited to contribute to an anthology project one of my buddies is putting together for 2009. All I’m at liberty to say is that it’ll be fantasy oriented, which is pretty cool since I don’t often dip my literary toes into the straight-fantasy pool very often, but I like the overview of the project, I like the parameters I’ve been given, and I like the general concept. I’ve been working here and there when I can pry a few minutes loose on an outline for my story, which I’m tentatively calling ‘Raiders.’ The book title is Winterlands, and I guess it may be a while, but more on that endeavor when additional info can be revealed. I don’t want the guy behind the project to come and hunt me down. He comes from Minnesota, and it’s cold up there. He might bring snowballs in a cooler or something…
Crime novel: Two more chapters down. I had to go back and do some lengthy revisions on two previous chapters to completely eradicate all traces of a continuity error, so it took a lot of time reading backwards in order to make the build-up to a certain key event perfect. Or, near-perfect, as I’m sure I’ll find something to tweak later on after getting back the preview copies I’ll soon be sending out to readers.
There’s more in the works, but plenty of time to talk about that in the coming weeks. In the meantime, it’s Halloween. I hope you’re curling up with a good spooky flick, or perhaps sitting beneath a lamp in an otherwise darkened room with a book and reading a spine-tingling tale (copy of Stuff Outa My Head handy?), or maybe going out clubbing in your fetish garb or masquerade finest, or planning to howl at the moon at an all-nite costume party. Whatever you do, enjoy yourself, and hey, why stop there? It’s Friday. Make it a 72 hour celebration, an all-Hallows-weekend. It is, after all, the best holiday of the year, no reason to limit it to one measly day, right? 
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