I have quite a few signing events lined up for this month both in Austin and in San Antonio, Texas. Please add them to your calendars and help me to spread the word. Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like a good vampire novel!


Thursday, December 4th — Mothers Anthem
Big Mouth
912 Main Street
Bastrop, TX
The show starts at 8pm!
Austin-based rock band Mothers Anthem will be performing next Thursday in Bastrop, TX! I will be signing copies of ETERNAL VIGILANCE at the merchandise table! Stop by and enjoy the show and share a drink with us!


Friday December 12th, 2008

Time: 5pm

The Twig Book Shop

5005 Broadway

San Antonio, TX 78209

Tel: 210-826-6411

Fax: 210-826-6411

www.thetwig.booksense.com


Saturday December 13th, 2008
Time: 1 – 4pm
Dragon’s Lair – San Antonio
7959 Fredericksburg Rd # 129
San Antonio, TX 78229
More info on San Antonio Dragon’s Lair location


Sunday December 14th, 2008
Time: 11am – 11pm
Tickets: $5
Keep Austin Bizarre — Austin, TX
Palmer Events Center
900 Barton Springs Rd.
Austin, TX 78704
http://www.keepaustinbizarre.com/
About Keep Austin Bizarre:
With an atmosphere true to Austin, the holiday shopping event will feature over 100 local artists and small businesses selling unique gifts and fine, hand crafted items at affordable prices. In addition, there will be tribal, improvisational and yogic dance performances, capoeira, circus acts, and resident musicians who play while patrons shop. This year more of the community has joined hands with Keep Austin Bizarre and will include performances by groups such as the JCC (Jewish Community Center), Girls School of Austin Orchestra, Mexican American Cultural Center, Amala Foundation, Lululemon Athletica, Crossfit Central Kids, and the Zilker Elementary School kid’s choir. In addition, the bazaar is supporting the non-profit Africa Bound Corporation. Food and drink, including a full bar, will be available.


Friday December 19th, 2008
Time: 11am – 11pm
Tickets: $5
Keep Austin Bizarre — Austin, TX
Palmer Events Center
900 Barton Springs Rd.
Austin, TX 78704
http://www.keepaustinbizarre.com/
About Keep Austin Bizarre:
With an atmosphere true to Austin, the holiday shopping event will feature over 100 local artists and small businesses selling unique gifts and fine, hand crafted items at affordable prices. In addition, there will be tribal, improvisational and yogic dance performances, capoeira, circus acts, and resident musicians who play while patrons shop. This year more of the community has joined hands with Keep Austin Bizarre and will include performances by groups such as the JCC (Jewish Community Center), Girls School of Austin Orchestra, Mexican American Cultural Center, Amala Foundation, Lululemon Athletica, Crossfit Central Kids, and the Zilker Elementary School kid’s choir. In addition, the bazaar is supporting the non-profit Africa Bound Corporation. Food and drink, including a full bar, will be available.

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The official hotel of the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton, UK has been selected! The convention will be held at the Albion Hotel. The WHC has posted a lengthy bio about the location on their website: http://www.whc2010.org/hotel.html. It looks absolutely stunning and I simply can’t wait!

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Movie trailers lack female narrators
Void left by ‘Voice of God’ could open field to women
CAROLINE RYDER | Variety | November 11, 2008


Don LaFontaine, the so-called “Voice of God” who held a virtual monopoly over the narration of bigtime movie trailers until his death Sept. 1, had a clear idea of who his successor should be — God’s voice, he said, should belong to a woman.


“I think women are vastly underrepresented in this area,” LaFontaine told me in 2006. “You’d think that for films directly aimed at women, chick flicks, the logical choice would be for a woman to narrate the trailer. But studios hold focus groups and the people in them, women included, seem to prefer the male voice.”


Two years later, little has changed. Movie trailers remain largely unaffected by feminism’s march, with growly baritones like those of Andy Geller and Ashton Smith seeming the likely replacements for LaFontaine’s wizened authority. Women, who make up a small fraction of the trailer voice talent pool (William Morris reps three female trailer voices compared with 33 males, according to its website), remain almost exclusively confined to TV, radio and DVD trailer spots. The reason isn’t so much gender equality, apparently, as it is resistance to change among the moviegoing public — male and female…CLICK HERE to read the full article on Variety

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Baby bats abandoned after Gold Coast storms
By Brian Williams | December 1, 2008 | news.com.au


WILDLIFE carers are desperate for help after storms caused grey-headed flying foxes to abandon about 300 babies in the Gold Coast hinterland. For the past week, carer Trish Wimberley has been collecting babies from Canungra suffering from hypothermia and dehydration. Some are fly blown. About 50 have been farmed out to carers in Brisbane and Toowoomba to relieve pressure on about 60 Gold Coast carers and volunteer veterinarians who are working around the clock, feeding every four hours.


“It’s a mammoth task and we keep falling behind,” Ms Wimberley said.


“Normally, female flying foxes will go to the ends of the earth to save their babies so for this to occur, they are really in dire straits.” Her group, Wildcare Australia, is seeking donations of any fruit except citrus, juices, Karicare baby formula and packets of yellow duster cloths. Anyone who can help should phone Wildcare on (07) 5527 2444.


CLICK HERE for a slideshow of additional baby bat images!

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Last year I had the opportunity to design a logo for the German rock band Vampire. They sent me this pic today of the jacket Marq had created from the central bat design. Very very cool! I wouldn’t mind having a coat like that myself!

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Please help us to spread the word about this and future shows!


Austin-based rock band Mothers Anthem will be performing next Thursday in Bastrop, TX! I will be signing copies of ETERNAL VIGILANCE at the merchandise table! Stop by and enjoy the show and share a drink with us!


Thursday, December 4th at Big Mouth (912 Main Street) in Bastrop, TX! The show starts at 8pm!


CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON MOTHERS ANTHEM AND LISTEN TO THEIR NEW TUNES!

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