Dispatches from the Flying M

Phoenix Comicon Schedule

The Phoenix Comicon has posted the programming schedule for their Memorial Day weekend event. Ignore the bio of me--it's at least two years old, and maybe three. But here are the panels I'll be doing (note, I am only there Saturday and Sunday this year):

Work For Hire, Tie-ins and Shared Worlds

Saturday: 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Location: 126A

Authors who are routinely granted work for hire contracts discuss the pros and cons of playing in someone else's sandbox, while also sharing tips for how to get noticed in the WFH arena...and how to stay in it.

who'll be here

• Joe Nassise
• Weston Ochse
• Marcy Rockwell
• Jeffrey J. Mariotte
• Yvonne Navarro

Writing Zombies

Saturday: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Location: 124A

Our esteemed panel of horror authors discuss how they handle writing Zombie stories and how they put their own spin on the mindless monsters.

who'll be here

• Keith Lansdale
• Jeffrey J. Mariotte
• Joe Nassise
• Weston Ochse
• Joe R Lansdale

One Last Scare Before You Go

Sunday: 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Location: 124A

Join our horror authors for one last scare before the weekend is over as they discuss their favorite horror works and read some selected pieces from them.

who'll be here

• Keith Lansdale
• Joe Nassise
• Yvonne Navarro
• Jeffrey J. Mariotte
• Weston Ochse
• Joe R Lansdale

Theoretically I'll also have a table in the dealer's room, and I'll have some of my work available for sale.

I hope to see lots of you there!

Cinco de Mayo/Free Comic Book Day/MG's 19th!

So there's a lot happening on May 5.

The one I'll be attending for sure is the 19th Birthday Bash for Mysterious Galaxy San Diego.

The party lasts all day, from 10 to 5. Authors appearing during the day include Arthur Salm, Bree Despain, Brodi Ashton, Wes Albers, Allison Brennan, Christopher Farnsworth, Suzanne Johnson, Lisa Brackmann, Dana Fredsti, Jack Campbell, and me. I'm on at noon with Wes and Allison, transitioning from young adult to thrillers. There'll be other local authors dropping in throughout the day, too, and Random House Sales Rep Wade Lucas will tell us about upcoming titles of interest. And there are always tons of fun and interesting people, and cake.

Cake is good.

If you're in San Diego on May 5, I hope you'll come by. Spend an hour or spend the day. It's going to be a blast!

 

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

This weekend, I'll be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, on the USC campus. Mysterious Galaxy's booth is #372.

Authors signing at the booth include these (full signing schedule is here):

Avery Aames, Rochelle Staab, Lisa Brackmann,  Laura Levine, Joanne Fluke, Joseph Wambaugh, Holly Goldberg Sloan,  Les Klinger, Stuart Woods, Whitley Strieber, John Scalzi,  Jeri Westerson, Stephen Jay Schwartz, DeAnna Cameron, Alex Shakar,  Denise Hamilton, Cara Black, Richard Kadrey, Linda O. Johnston,  Sue Ann Jaffarian, Robert Ward, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl,  Kelli Stanley,  Matt Ruff, Joanna Philbin, Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan,  Gary Phillips, James Conway, Philip Kerr,  Nancy Holder,  Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Stephen Blackmoore, S.G. Browne, Amelia Gray, Seth Grahame-Smith, Greg Bear, Kendare Blake, Carol Tanzman, and John Joseph Adams. 

Lots of great names on that list (wait--including this one: Jeffrey J. Mariotte!).

My signing is at 1 PM on Sunday--right before I have to race to LAX to fly home. But I'll be around the booth most of the weekend. And two new books will debut there, so you'll definitely want to come around and see the final two books (in one volume) of the Dark Vengeance teen horror quartet, Dark Vengeance, Volume 2, and thriller The Devil's Bait.

Hope to see you there!

 

L.A. Times Festival of Books

Next weekend is the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which I used to regularly attend before moving to Arizona made it somewhat more difficult.

But I will be there this year, and not one but TWO new books will make their debuts there. My thriller The Devil's Bait, originally available only as an e-book, will make its print debut, from L.A.-based publisher Malevolent Books.

Also available there for the first time will be Dark Vengeance, Volume 2, which contains two full novels of teen horror, DV: Winter and DV: Spring. For those who've been anxiously awaiting the end of the saga, the wait will soon be over!

My official signing time is 1:00 pm on Sunday, April 22, at Mysterious Galaxy (Booth 372), but I will be around the booth--and the books will be available--most of the weekend. I hope to see a lot of you there!

 

TusCon Schedule

I've been running around a lot, since mid-September, trying to promote Dark Vengeance--to the point that whole weeks have gone by that I haven't seen my home in daylight. But the running around finally comes to an end, after this weekend's TusCon. The TusCon website is here.

These are my scheduled events there:

Fri 11/11

6 pm - 

Things not normally mentioned in stories - Why are they? Can they be used to build realism,

character and/or plot? Panelists: Jordan Summers, Jeff Mariotte, Nickolas Cook, Jennifer Roberson,

Patricia Briggs.

Silver Room

 

Sat 11/12

9 am -

Sparkling True Bloods Batman, are vampires played out yet? Panelists: Anne Elizabeth,

Jeffrey Mariotte, Cynthia Ward, Pamela Lloyd.

Copper Room

 

3 pm -

Mass autographing session

Copper Room

 

4 pm -

Happily ever after - until next time. Writing the sequel.

Panelists: Kathryn Lance, David Lee Summers, Frankie Robertson, Marcy Rockwell, Jeff Mariotte, Jennifer Roberson.

Silver Room

 

Mysterious Galaxy will be selling books in the dealer's room, so if you're looking for me at any other time, I l might be hanging around there. I'm very much looking forward to seeing a lot of friends and readers!

Tucson Comic Con and Roy

Roy Rogers would have been a hundred years old on Saturday, Nov. 5.

I've told the story many times about how the direction of my life was likely permanently altered by the discovery of Roy Rogers comics, without which, chances are, I wouldn't live on an Arizona ranch property or write western comics like Desperadoes, Graveslinger and the forthcoming Deadlands: Black Water.

I'll be celebrating Roy's centennial at the Tucson Comic Con, which is on Saturday and Sunday this year (the first time it's been a 2-day show. On Saturday at 1 pm I'm on a writer's panel; otherwise I'll be at my table in the dealer's room. You can pick up books and comics directly from me there. Come on out and say howdy!

World Fantasy Convention-bound

I'm on the way to San Diego for the World Fantasy Convention. The fun kicks off tonight with the World Fantasy Convention Meet and Greet at Mysterious Galaxy San Diego, then the convention begins on Thursday. It'll be a busy weekend!

Off to L.A

Mysterious Galaxy Redondo Beach tonight for the Meet & Greet, and Long Beach tomorrow night for the SCIBA Authors Feast!

Dark Vengeance Tour Continues

After two somewhat relaxing weekends at home, I'm hitting the road again, trying my best to make sure everybody everywhere owns a copy or two of Dark Vengeance.

Here's where I'll be next:

Mysterious Galaxy SCIBA Meet-and-Greet

Oct 21, Redondo Beach, CA

 

Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Authors Feast

 Oct 22, Long Beach, CA

 

World Fantasy Convention Authors Meet and Greet

Oct 26, San Diego, CA

 

World Fantasy Convention

Oct 27-30, San Diego, CA

 

Tucson Comic Con

Nov 5-6, Tucson, AZ

 

TusCon

Nov 11-13, Tucson, AZ

 

Arizona Library Association Annual Convention

Nov 29, Tucson, AZ

Northwestern AZ

The stretch of Arizona between Wickenburg and the Nevada border is spectacular, particularly the Joshua tree/saguaro interface between Wickenburg and Wickieup. I took a brief detour in Kingman, to visit the Mother Road, old Route 66, then continued on to Lake Mead and visited the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge and the Hoover Dam--two great examples of American infrastructure investment. Then it was on the Vegas, where I am now. KillerCon fun starts tomorrow.