This has been one crazy whirlwind of a week so far! All good news, though. Extremely good, in fact! Gabino Iglesias, who recently reviewed my novella REGRET for the Austin Post, followed up this week with an in-person interview which went live today. It was a true pleasure speaking with Gabino and I was delighted [...]

Vampire Fest 2010 Vampire Lit Panel: Why Do Women Write Bloody Good Vampire Fiction? From Rice, Meyer to Harris- Do Women ‘Get’ Vampires? Oct 30, 3pm at The Shadowbox Theatre Meet the Authors Mixer & Book Signing Immediately Follows The mission of the Vampire Film Festival is to showcase the artistry of filmmakers who work [...]

In T-minus three days I, along with my co-author on the REGRET sequel Solomon Schneider, will be loading up the Bat Mobile with the necessities for a good cross-Texas/Louisiana road trip (quart of Jack Daniels, steam trunk of fangs and corsets, copy of Ted Nugent’s “Stranglehold” and our laptop computers…you know, the basics) and hitting [...]

I just want to take a moment to congratulate my dear friend Anthony Brownrigg on his win of “Best Picture” at the 2010 Bram Stoker Film Festival for his film “Red Victoria”! I’ve been raving about this film for a couple of years now and I’m happy to see if FINALLY receiving the international recognition [...]

Eternal Vigilance dream cast May 16, 2010 • • • A couple of weeks ago one of my awesome readers showed me the site StoryCasting where you can select your “dream cast” for a movie project you are working on. Since we are in the final stages of finishing the screenplay adaptation, I thought this [...]

Belgian film from director Vincent Lannoo claims his “documentary” tracks the lives of “real” vampires in modern-day Belgium. Though this is obviously a faux documentary, the tagline “They’re…Not scary. Not sexy. Not trendy.” has definitely piqued my interest, including the below official description posted by BD Horror New earlier today. I am very curious and [...]

Last night I had the privilege of being one of the lucky people to grab a seat at the world premiere of the indie comedy Kick-Ass at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. I have to admit that I went into the premiere with extremely low expectations. I had read a few [...]

I share in Suburban Vampire’s irritation at the lack of nods to vampire films during Oscar season. Too many films are dismissed by the Oscar committee simply for the fact that they feature the undead. This is not to say that there were a lot of Oscar-worthy vampire films released in 2009. Some of them [...]