Kensington just sent me the wonderful new cover for my second Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novel, UNNATURAL ACTS. It really captures the fun of the series. In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up—to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working stiff. When a local senator and his goons picket a ghostly production of Shakespeare in the Dark—condemning the troupe’s “unnatural” lifestyles—Dan smells something rotten. And if something smells rotten to a zombie, you’re in serious trouble… Before his way of life,...
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AFTERTASTE—the third installment of my humorous BLOOD LITE anthology series, under the auspices of the Horror Writers Association—has just been released in mass-market paperback from Pocket Books.  Thirty all-new hilarious horror stories from Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Christopher Golden, Heather Graham, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and many others, including one of the last stories by LA Banks. FULL CONTENTS: I Was a Teenage Bigfoot—Jim Butcher Blood Red Greens—Joel Sutherland V Plates—Kelley Armstrong Put on a Happy Face—Christopher Golden Devil’s Contract—E.S. Magill Nine Tenths of the Law—Eric James Stone Scrumptious Bone Bread—Jeff Strand Let That Be a Lesson to You—Mark Onspaugh Mint in Box—Mike...
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I just received my advance reading copies of DEATH WARMED OVER, the first novel in my Dan Shamble, Zombie PI series from Kensington.  Now I've got zombies all over the kitchen counter. SINGLE DEAD DETECTIVE SEEKS CLUE Ever since The Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves, and other undead denizens on the world, it’s been hell being a detective—especially for zombie P.I. Dan Chambeaux. Taking on the creepiest of cases in the Unnatural Quarter with a human lawyer for a partner and a ghost for a girlfriend, Chambeaux redefines “dead on arrival.” But just because he was murdered doesn’t mean he’d...
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It's been an intense two months with a whirlwind of deadlines and appearances, and I've been stuck inside looking out at the beautiful weather (feeling like a kid with chicken pox not allowed to go out and play). But after I turned in two manuscripts, I blocked out part of a day and went on a hike in the Front Range, a spectacular trail to the Devil's Head fire lookout, a high rock outcropping with a breathtaking view of the foothills, the Pike National Forest with rock formations to rival South Dakota's Black Hills, and Pike's Peak in the distance....
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