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For those of you who are not fans of winter, the idea of the end of the world coming via snow probably seems quite terrifying. For me, a fan of winter and cold months, it seems almost comforting. That being said, Iain Rob Wright’s terrifying apocalyptic novel The Final Winter is a great read for [...]

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Something has happened in the world of television. Suddenly, the horror genre is everywhere. The success of American Horror Story, suddenly the major networks have stepped up and cranked up the horror. Of course, the results, so far, have been mixed. Although I am quite a fan of 666 Park Avenue, the audience did not [...]

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I was offered the great opportunity to write for a blog from White Knight Studios.  They asked me to contribute an article that they could feature for Halloween, so I wrote about why we need horror and why the horror genre is still important. So, click HERE to read the full article at the blog!

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I woke up this morning to a bit of a surprise. I had an email from Amazon.com telling me that they had started selling my ebooks in India. Hmm, I thought, that’s interesting. I know that there are a lot of people there and they tend to have an interest in American-ish things. I guess [...]

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I one time had a friend ask my why I wrote about such dark and sinister things. Even in my non-fiction writing, I tend to lean towards the dark. I write about murders and mayhem and things like that. He then asked, “Bryan, why can’t you write about happy things like bunnies and puppies and [...]

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Author Bryan R. Dennis has just self-published his debut novel and it is a doozy. It’s so good it almost makes me angry! I wish I could write this well! He also happens to be a great guy, doing what he can to promote us indie publishers with his blog, which you can find on [...]

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I think I have to confess something. I know it is controversial and people are always telling me not to get too political on my website. Essentially, this website is supposed to be for promoting my written works such as my novels and books. I want everyone to buy my work and not just one [...]

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If I were to step out onto my front porch with a megaphone, every day, and start shouting about how the only way to save my neighborhood was to “do something” and “take a stand” against one particular family on the block, what would happen? If I were to put posters in my windows showing [...]

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As I sit here in my cozy living room in Chicago, Illinois, and traffic hustles and rushes by my window, I am thinking of a friend I barely know. She and I went to the same high school and, I believe, in some way we were aware of each other. We probably had many of [...]

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I have been a fan of the filmmaker Martin Scorsese for some time.  I even took a class in college where we watched Scorsese movies and then talked about them like they were more important than they really were.  I would then write a paper where I would look for religious symbolism in the movie [...]

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