On June 5 of 1968, Sen. Robert F Kennedy was favored to become the Democratic nominee for president when he was shot to death in Los Angeles. At his funeral, Andy Williams sang this amazing, near- a capella version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. #RFK youtu.be/SNi8TnN8cDA?...

REALLY excited to be speaking twice next week at #DigitalHollywood - Tue 7/22 at 4pm ET I'll mod "AI Data Royalties & Creative Partnerships" Wed 7/23 at 4pm ET I present "Real-Time AI and the Long Tail" Join me! www.digitalhollywood.com/wednesday-ei... #streaming #AI #CTV #adtech #streaminglaw

I never get tired of watching the training sequences from #YOLO. Check this out! youtu.be/YB8M8jgzlak?...

Hope you'll join our 5/6 8:30EST Launch Party for CASTLE OF HORROR: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES www.facebook.com/events/10211... & hop over to your favorite retailer to pre-order your copy! 10 stories. Kernels of real events. All turned on their heads with artful horrors: bookshop.org/p/books/cast...

This morning at Crossfit they were playing RATT's Round and Round, of course, because it's a gym, but it suddenly struck me that listening to that 1984 song today is like going to a Jazzercise class in 1988 and listening to Perry Como's 1946 hit "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)."

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to CHILD OF DARK WATER by E. G. Rand, a spooky, swampy, sometimes downright grisly story of a small-town cop and her investigation of a creature from the bottom of a lake. Brrr. #horror #novella Check it out! amzn.to/3GcJcDW

*Eerie atmosphere. Unsettling architecture comes into view* *breathy announcer voice* Publicity has begun murmuring, events are beginning to coalesce, the pressure for pre-orders has begun... (Please avoid Amazon) AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION: tinyurl.com/amgothbn 🖤

2025 AUDIE AWARD NOMINEE REBECCA ANNE NGUYEN Check out this new interview by MacKenzie Cole with Rebecca Anne Nguyen, whose audiobook of her The 23rd Hero is nominated for an Audie Award in the same category with Whoopie Goldberg and Salman Rushdie! youtu.be/SBPiYHbyCFg #SF #timetravel

DISTANT EARLY WARNING for "Lovecraft's Addams Family," THE KINGS OF YELLOW STREET by Lee Mates from Castle Bridge Media.

We could not be more proud of Katharine Coldiron's appearance on PBS’s LOCATIONLAND touring the locations for Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9IB... Katharine is the author of Castle Bridge Media Amazon best-seller JUNK FILM: WHY BAD MOVIES MATTER. Go Katharine!

"Next Train Out," a sort of Tom Jonesy crooner by Gil Bernal from obscure b-movie Blood of Dracula's Castle (1967) is maybe the greatest horror movie theme song except possibly for The Blob. Honestly. dai.ly/x6whokc

I had no idea that Basia had a Latin-infused early 80s sophisti-pop band called Matt Bianco. It's cool, though! youtu.be/xWJGpQ1Xjbs?...

Tonight's reading: OUR AGENT IN ROME IS MISSING, a Nick Carter adventure.

Another Top 10! E.G. Rand's CHILD OF DARK WATER from Castle Bridge Media comes out in April, but it's at #7 in New US Horror Fiction today! Only Officer Alice can stop a dark lake creature from destroying her town. Pre-order now! amzn.to/4h7RYjR #books #bookstagram #horror

The 23rd Hero is an Audie Award Finalist for Best Narration by the Author, in a category with Salman Rushdie and Whoopi Goldberg! Congratulations Rebecca Anne Nguyen!

TOP 10! This morning, Southern Gothic debut THE THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE LITTLE by Caroline Kelly Franklin is in the Top 10 New Releases in US Horror Fiction-- have you discovered THE THING THAT HAPPENED? www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF57W6M3 #books #bookstagram #gothic

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to Southern Gothic debut The Thing That Happened When We Were Little by Caroline Kelly Franklin from Castle Bridge Media! amzn.to/4asXWJy

Whenever you're writing a romance, the goal is to capture some fraction of whatever the heck is going on with the Ghost and Mrs. Muir. youtu.be/_UAEf0iLsIo?...

Happy Book Birthday to ST. DAMNED, a shocking new horror novel from Ty Drago -- a paranormal researcher joins an FBI stakeout in a haunted church and the demonic forces there don't wish to be disturbed. “ST. DAMNED is a hell of a book... Highly recommended!” -–Jonathan Maberry amzn.to/4fQxoDp

31 years! Today, Julia and I have been married for 31 years. That is a whole Ariana Grande in time. I could not ask for a more loving, inquisitive, and creative partner, and this decision we made so many years ago has made my life so much more full. Happy Anniversary, Julia Guzman-Henderson!

Now playing: Sting's Nothing Like the Sun, featuring the lead single "We'll Be Together." Annie Lennox on background vocals! Incidentally: this dancer in the middle is Laura Dunlop, one of the founding members of the School of Ballet Chicago, where she teaches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYps...

Watching one of my favorite Christmas episodes: "Christmas Memory" from Robert Young's Window on Main Street (Dec 18, 1961) www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_-N...

I listen to these in-store music feeds and I always think about the musicians; in my mind it's 1968 and there's this girl who plays a viola she carries from her tiny Chicago apartment down snowy sidewalks to spend six hours in a studio somewhere. You can see her, right? youtu.be/3y57k7JWJfU?...

"You will be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

Today's earworm: the awesome opening number of "Heisse Sommer" ("Hot Summer") -- the single greatest Communist East German Beach Party movie ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrbr...

In Bridget & Mary Jo's Meet Mrs. Swenson (1956) on Rifftrax, this is a 14-year-old Sheila James Kuehl. She was California's first openly gay state legislator and the California State Assembly's first female speaker pro tem. Born in Tulsa, she served two terms in the California Senate.

Tonight: Christmas with Love (2022) starring singer/actress Dia Frampton and Houston native, UT alum Andi Rene Christensen as the first nonbinary Christmas romcom lead.

Tonight: FOLLOWING YONDER STAR (2024) - Brooke D'Orsay is an actress riding out a viral internet meltdown in a small town with John Brotherton. Pairs well with CHRISTMAS IN HOMESTEAD (2016) about an actress who finds love with a small-town mayor while making a movie. Next up: NAKED, YOU DIE (1968).

I think what I love most about the #Superman trailer is how in-your-face it is. It just outright says, "if a scruffy white puppy helping Superman turns you off, you can skip this one." I get chills! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhUh...

I think about this snippet of dialogue a lot. (From "Back to the Future" by George Gipe, based on the screenplay by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale.)

Tonight: Twas the Date Before Christmas with Robert Buckley and Amy Groening. Groening brings a fake boyfriend to family Christmas lest they think she is Alone. (Elements: fake relationship, online dating, HEA, in a city!) Next up: Terror Creatures from the Grave (1965)

Tonight: Small Town Christmas (2018) with Ashley Newbrough and Kristoffer Polaha. Ashley is a bestselling author on tour reconnecting with a former fellow editor. (Elements: Small towns, authors, instant family.) A favorite and pairs well with author amnesia story Falling for Vermont (2017).

Looking for some holiday horrors? Check out THE CASTLE OF HORROR ANTHOLOGY: HOLIDAY HORRORS! Now with a fresh new cover from In Churl Yo! amzn.to/41GINC2

Thriller Panel: Deceptions and Death - on YouTube Hey gang! You can now view our Thriller Panel featuring a whole host of bestselling authors. Let us know your thoughts! Ft. Jonathan Maberry, Herta Feely, Teel James Glenn, Janice Nagourney, and Bobby Nash. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0C...

I'll be hosting a panel on Thrillers at 11am Pacific today! Join an amazing bunch of writers to hear about why we keep coming back to this genre! www.facebook.com/events/12441...

Gang, BE THERE next Monday for a THRILLER PANEL of amazing writers including Jonathan Maberry, Herta Feely, Teel James Glenn, Janice Nagourney, and Bobby Nash. www.facebook.com/share/StkvkY...

Amazing Superman sketch by Jack Kirby. Hat tip to Charles R Rutledge!

It is simply not true that there is only one Hallmark Christmas movie plot. There are at least six: - Corporate woman comes home - Fake relationship - Cross-country romance - Better personality through amnesia - Magic timeslip - Life swap There might even be more but see, at least six.

Honestly I'd love to see Sofia Strange return, regardless who wrote her! I don't know if Marvel has any plans for her though.

Dodger Stadium, Fleetwood Mac and the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band, 1979: "Tusk." youtu.be/ATMR5ettHz8?...

Santa arrives at the Littleton Candlelight Walk!

Littleton Candlelight Walk!

A teenager in high school watching "Saturday Night" is watching a movie about 50 years ago, like if in high school I were to watch a movie about the partnership of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. It is farther in time than the events described in and the release of "Mommie Dearest."

Wicked!

We were rewatching YOLO tonight and it's just so amazing to watch Jia Ling's grueling transformation. youtu.be/YB8M8jgzlak?...

Reading spooky submissions and listening to Marie Laforet. youtu.be/dEMUHE1O2mM?...

There's a genre I've never written in that I really think I'd like to do next. For one of a better word I call it "Yacht Noir." Stuff like Masquerade, My Blood Runs Cold, Woman of Straw, Woman of Desire. Yacht Noir.

I'll be hosting a panel on Thrillers featuring a handful of amazing guests-- Jonathan Maberry - Herta Feely - Teel James Glenn - Janice Nagourney - Bobby Nash. December 10 at 2pm ET. RSVP here: www.facebook.com/share/ztqgb5...

There's now a channel on Pluto called Outer Sphere that plays episodes of Dead Zone, which was Anthony Michael Hall's genre show. I miss gloomy, overcast spooky Canadian procedurals.