Horror novels

I've registered for a Meditation & Dharma Talk Workshop. :) Ahhh... what a nice change of pace, I can feel it already. LOL! Details:  Date & Time:  Tuesday, May 31    7:30 pm. - 9:00 p.m.Place:  Lotus Tea

After another visit with Dr. Pan, I'm doing the cleanse again. Okay, it's not really just a cleanse. It's an Inflammation Remedy Program using UltraInflamX for two weeks. This involves three days in the middle of the powdered shakes only, which is tough.

I've come to believe that over time, the less I've had dairy or gluten, the more sensitive my body has become. Alas, my beloved wine, you must go.There are a lot of alcohols made with yeast, most of which is killed in the distillation process. MOST b

I've heard many people say that something changes when you're 40. Well, I'm only 37, but I think the first inkling of 40 snuck in early. They say that when you're 40 you start to realize that there are some things about you that will never change, an

Do you read a lot of blogs? I always wonder who's out there, who bothers to read them anymore, if what I have to say is even remotely interesting. Well, whether this is handed out to everyone or not I don't know, but I got a nod this week. Thanks! Here's

I know, I'm just getting to it now. I just haven't had time this week...We got there in time for the Chilling Tales release and I went around the room to try to get everyone to sign it - so many writers at an antho release! It was great!Then at 3 I&n

I have a favorite photographer in deviantart, Paulo Moreira. I saw one of his photo and immedately thought: Orfeo! O___OAnyone else has photos that remind you of one of Jemiah's characters? XD

Hey, it happened at last! The NPR interview that I and my colleagues at Underland Press did in October or something like that was finally broadcast yesterday! I missed it - being too sleepy to figure out how to work a radio at seven in the morning - but f

Hey, go check it out:http://www.underlandpress.com/wovel.cfmI am getting good notices from people who've read this first chapter - feel free to leave comments at the site, or even post your thoughts here. Thanks for giving it a look - imagine, new Jemiah

I am pleased to announce that I will be writing the next "wovel" (or web novel) for Underland Press. Please keep an eye on that site for details - as well as this one, of course - as they emerge.The title is FirstWorld, and is a cyberpunk tale, set in 203

Hello everyone, I'm a new fan to the novels of Jemiah. I came to her novels after struggling through Twilight, Anne Rice and, Laurell K. Hamilton. In fact, I was about to give up on the genre when I picked up Fiend in a local thrift store. I absolutely lo

Hey, folks, Jemiah here - demanding that you amazing artists out there get cracking and make me some more Blood-series fan art! Any style, any medium, any character - just bust a move and get posting. I know you can do it and want to do it - and you inspi

My first short story collection, Christmas Trees & Monkeys, Collected Horror Stories Volume 1, is now available as a Kindle, Nook, what have you, ebook from the fine folks at Necon eBooks! With brand new cover art by the venerable Kelli Jones, the col

A friend of mine and fellow townie Bob Bois has a cool blog called Sitting in Darkness where he's been posting short, flash fiction pieces daily (or mostly daily) on the website. Highly recommend taking a visit over, very cool pieces and worth a visit. Hi

My review of the Irish film ONDINE is up at Cinema Knife Fight today. Not my best review, I meandered way too much off topic, but it was a great film. :-)

The Italian online magazine/blog Horror Street has an interview with me. I'd thought it was going to be in Italian, but no, it's in English, so if you're interested, check it out at http://postonero.blogspot.com/2011/02/horror-street-interview-with-daniel

My review of the 3D movie SANCTUM, the one where James Cameron's name is tossed about like a ship on the ocean, is now appearing at Cinema Knife Fight. Check it out, man... check.. it out.....

Had an awesome night Wednesday moderating a panel with Tracy Carbone and Morven Westfield at the Beaman Memorial Library in West Boylston. Special thanks to Mark Baldi and everyone at the West Boylston Arts Foundation for sponsoring the event.Picture

I've been talking about going to Readercon for years now, ever since I stopped by the convention for a day in 2008, but something, be it scheduling or finances, always kept me from returning. But not this year!Chasing the Dragon is up for a Shirley Jackso

Ever since Chasing the Dragon received a nomination for a 2011 Thriller Award, I've kind of been dragging my heels about registering for the awards banquet on Saturday, July 9 because A) I keep expecting a phone call saying there's been a terrible mistake

Huh. Did you know that in Boston dumplings are called Peking ravioli?Really, Boston? Peking ravioli?

This evening I went to a cocktail reception in the great hall of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, surrounded by centuries-old paintings and Egyptian statuary. It was gorgeous! Also, there was an open bar and people singing opera. I felt like such high societ

Happy Mother's Day!

I'm currently in Boston with Alexa for the annual OPERA America Conference--or as I call it, OperaCon. Boston is one of my favorite cities, so I'm happy to be here with time to spare while she works the conference. I spent Thursday and Friday helping stuf

Jamie Lee Curtis toplines Canadian helmer Yves Simoneau’s Mother's Boys, a visually stylish psychothriller about the bonds between mothers and their sons — and the sometimes psychopathic ties that bind them.Curtis shines as Jude Madigan, a prodigal mother

Over the past few days, I’ve shared with you my picks for the ten best albums and songs of 2010. But what about the rest – movies, television, and books? I had to do more in 2010 than just listen to music, right? So here a few of my other “Best of…” selec

Yesterday, I shared with you my picks for the ten best songs of 2010. Expanding on the music theme a bit, here are my ten favorite albums of the year:#10) Cyndi Lauper | Memphis BluesSadly, Lauper garnered more attention in 2010 for appearing as a contest

Year-end lists. Publicly, we humbly apologize for them; secretly, we love them. They present wonderful opportunities to sort and catalog the cultural mile markers – music, movies, books, television, and events – that we passed along the highway of our mem

Sometimes inspiration is found in the unlikliest of places. This latest installment of Slasher Clash was inspired by the recent press junket for the upcoming Disney film YOU AGAIN, of all things. During one of the interviews, co-stars Jamie Lee Curtis and

I’ve always liked my horror one of two extremes – either completely safe and formulaic (i.e. just about every slasher film ever made) or completely twisted to the point of inducing extreme reactions (i.e. FEED, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE, TEETH). Budding filmmak

Don't forget to vote for me every day! It would mean so much! Vote here! Search for "angelmcc".Thank you!Angel...

Angel's Adjectives: terrifying and twistyA Bram Stoker Award winner, Greg Lamberson is making his mark as one of horror's new forces. This is his second novel and the first in the Jake Hellman series (of which the second book is also out). It introduces c

VOTE HERE! It's a silly thing, but for some reason, I really want to win this contest. Or, at least, place in the top 20.I have long been a fan and student of Neil Gaiman's work. That's how writers learn. They study other writers, their work, their career

Editors Cassie Hart and Anna Carro are putting together a short fiction anthology whose proceeds will go to the Red Cross fund to assist victims of the earthquake that caused so much death and destruction in Christchurch, New Zealand last month.The initia

Just wanted to let you in on the deal. In honor of "Read an Ebook" Week, Smashwords is hosting a huge sale, and Night-Mantled: Best of Wily Writers is FREE to download in any number of ebook formats. (Coupon Code: RE100)I hope you give it a read, and if y

I started Wily Writers in 2008. It began as a conversation with author Ripley Patton about how writers could use more support in this day and age when publishing companies were going under like crazy and no one yet trusted the emerging e-publishing indust

Yep, another one.  Bop on over to Book'd out (http://wp.me/p12MUP-st) for a book giveaway, review of HIGHBORN, and a guest blog by Yours Truly about characterization!  This one goes a little more into it than the roundtable discussion I was rece

A record of what happened lastnight. Check it out on my web page.

Yep, I'll be there again.  This time The Husband has promised to be there for his panel with me, so another year where the Husband On A Stick does not have to stand in for him.  Here's my schedule:Tucson Festival of Books University of Arizona C

Are you near Yuma, Arizona?  Do you want to be?  No place is safe, so if you're feeling in battle mode tomorrow, join us at 2:00 p.m. at the Yuma Barnes and Noble Bookstore for a ZOMBIE FEST!  There will be books (HIGHBORN by me,

Don't have a copy of HIGHBORN yet?  Well, if you read that interview over at Gini Koch's Blah Blah Blah blog, you find a chance to win a copy of it in there, plus there's a chance to win a copy of The Husband's book, EMPIRE OF SALT.  T

Big old interview of The Husband (Weston Ochse) and myself at Gini Koch's Blah Blah Blah Blog -- We have a few, uh, interesting answers to some rather, uh, interesting questions posed by Gini.  Check it out! 

Tomorrow is the BIG Day. Multiplex Fandango is up for pre-order at Dark Regions Press. Some of you may have heard about it, but this is my master work of short fiction. Please if you have a moment and an inclination, jump over to Dark Regions at this link

The Great Dane Railway to Yuma    The Yuma Book Tour went awesomely. We survived the dust storms and the driving rain. We outlasted my GPSs decision not to work. And we met --again-- a slew of extraordinary people, not to mention the Nazi G

Here's a great website put together by Lee Whiteside that has all the Arizona authors SF authors and our locations during the festival. I think it's awesome that all of them are coming to my festival. And I'm glad to have them showing off their wonder

Major Announcement - New Book Deal   MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Abaddon Books has hired Weston Ochse to write another shared-universe novel, this one for their Afterblight Chronicles novel series.  Weston’s novel, title to be determined, take

  Today I begin an International Thriller Writer sponsored roundtable discussion “Do you plot, plan, or outline? Or, do you just go where your characters lead you? Why?  The Roundtable is comprise of Matt Lynn, Weston Ochse (that's me),

2010 Top Five Books   Everyone's doing a list of best books of the year. Why should I be any different. I read as much as the next guy, albiet, my reading habits aren't the same as many of you. If you were to break down my reading for pleasure, i

Amy Fellner Dominy is the first-time author of OyMG (Walker, 2011)(study guide PDF). From the promotional copy:Ellie Taylor loves nothing better than a good argument. So when she gets accepted to the Christian Society Speech and Performing Arts summer cam

Today at Cynsations, I'm honored to feature a conversation between Egmont USA publisher Elizabeth Law and her author Allen Zadoff.Elizabeth Law is Vice President and Publisher of Egmont USA, where their motto is “we turn writers into authors and children

Clete Barrett Smith is the first-time author of Aliens on Vacation (Disney-Hyperion Books, 2011). From the promotional copy:Scrub isn’t happy about leaving Florida and his friends to summer with his crazy grandmother in “Middle-of-Nowhere,” Washington.

Learn about Joyce Sweeney.[Joyce in black-and-blue with her most famous graduate student, author Alex Flinn. Alex is holding A Kiss In Time (HarperCollins, 2009); see the new cover.]Thank you for inviting us to peek in on your group! Who are the members?

It's two YA authors for the price of one!"From Classics to Contemporary" is a joint presentation offered by Jennifer Ziegler, author of Sass & Serendipity (inspired by Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)) and Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of t

By P. J. HooverThe life cycle of revisions has an evolution just like everything in the publishing world. An author writes a perfect story, and then it gets ripped apart and reordered on its path to publication.Traditionally, the story is revised with the

To help my foreign friends understand what's happening in this country, I'm going translate the salient parts of these two campaign posters.  I believe that the choices of image and slogans sum up the opposing sensibilities quite well. ABHISIT'S POST

In my novel Bluebeard's Castle, first serialized in The Nation 1990s, I satirized Bangkok in 90s and L.A. in the 90s.  One of the pivotal events in the novel is a production of Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle in Bangkok that features a chorus of re

Madonna and Child Image of my dear Mama from about the year  1953Now that the opposition has officially fielded Ms Shinawatra as its prime ministerial candidate, many of my friends have turned off the radar, assuming that this is a miscalculation of

I can't access my own blog on this server, although other blogs on the same account, such as thedragonstones blog which advertises my forthcoming novel, are intact.I can't imagine I have said anything worth censoring, so maybe it is just some weird glitch

We have recently had the sacred ploughing ceremony, in which sacred white bulls predict the annual harvest by choosing between different concoctions of grain.It's a lovely ceremony, though I doubt whether the cost of rice futures is much influenced by the

Several of my friends overseas have asked me to "explain Cambodia."  As if she could be explained in the space of a couple of hundred words.  But certainly there is a lot of propaganda, prejudice, and preconception going on about an argument tha

Wow. I haven't posted here in forever. I've pretty much moved to facebook. Anyway, I was going through my old files and found this tongue-in-cheek "Chapel Service Scheduler" I had cooked up for the funeral industry.Chapel Service SchedulerThe length of

Okay, for years we've had this local advertisement out of Longview for this lawyer whose trademark is this ridiculous hat - it's some sort of leather fedora that is too small for his head. In every commercial he tops off a rather nice suit with this odd,

I need this kind of Holiday Spirit - As a christmas decoration, I changed the regular lightbulb in Abby's room for a green one. When she came home from school and saw this she clasped her hands together and said, "This is going to be the best Christmas e

Okay, that was hilarious. I hope I'm not the only person who got to see the Florida Highway Department's press conference on the Tiger Woods car crash. In a nut shell, they held a press conference to announce that they will not be holding press conferen

Has anyone else noticed that every-freaking-body who works in television news has a book out? Now Al Roker has a book on the shelves. That's right, the weatherman. Granted he's a pleasant face with a knack for pointing out those pesky low pressure fronts,

Went to Shreveport with Shelly (and no kids!) for two nights. I lost my ass at blackjack, but had a ball. I also realized why they gave us free rooms; we more than paid for them out of our losses. Funny thing is I got drunk in the big city, but I reall

Although I'm going to leave this blog up for the time being, I'll be posting big updates on my personal website's blog exclusively from now on. The hassle of maintaining multiple blogs was becoming too time consuming to keep at it.Speaking of big updates,

You might have noticed that I haven't been very prolific here on my blog lately. Life has simply been too busy in 2010 and what little time I have available for writing has been spent writing fiction and my MLIS thesis paper.You might also

Calling all GTA writers and dark literature fans: the DARKLIT FEST is taking place tomorrow, Saturday, November 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the McLaughlin Branch of the Oshawa Public Library. 19 amazing guests (including Guest of Honour Kelley Armstrong

With a new baby in the house, two books to write and edit for Leisure Books, a book to edit for Scholastic and a second to write to hopefully sell to them, and a dark literature festival to organize (not to mention a full time job, a wife to hang out with

Something I've been working on behind the scenes these past few months is a one-day literary convention called The DarkLit Fest of Durham. For the past few years I've been dreaming of such an event to take place in my neck of the woods -- in Durham R

Like I said at the beginning of my last post, I've got some good news to share, so enough with the doom and gloom talk.We're now a week into September, the month that my children's non-fiction book, Be a Writing Superstar, is being released by Schola