A Monster Read

If you like zombies you should check out this book: Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum

It's a fun as a horror film... pretty twisted, quite cinematic with polaroids of the undead swarming across town, and at times very funny. Like a Romero movie in scope, this book takes you from the early days of a zombie plague to the inevitable grim conclusion-- and does it all in the 5-7-5 haiku syllable structure. Crazy or genius? You be the judge. Either way I bet you'll be entertained.

Making Friends with Authors

One of the fun things about having written a book is that I get to occasionally sign books at book festivals and meet other authors. A couple of months ago I was at a book festival in Lexington, KY and met a very nice young woman named Jennette Fulda who wrote an amazing, funny weightloss memoire titled Half Assed. Check out her blog at http://www.pastaqueen.com/

We are still keeping in touch and she had a recent booksigning in South Bend, Indiana and sent me this photo of my book on display "right by the cash register". (And right beside a couple of Max Brooks books... pretty cool).Very nice of her, don't you think?

Want a zombie makeover?

http://www.zombieportraits.com/

Monday News Roundup

Hey Spotters,

Monday mornings I try to check the news and see what kind of monster stuff got posted over the weekend. Here's the latest:

It was a big week for globsters ("monster" carcasses washed up on beaches). Giant squid near Santa Cruz and some weird thing reported washed up in Russia (but one comment posted says this is simply a resurfaced photo of whale remains).

A UFO sighting occurred in an Australian town yesterday. Read report here.

This morning I've been watching videos on the monster quest site. Check them out:
http://www.history.com/video.do?name=monsterquest

Also, here's some recent news about Bigfoot and an Indian version of Yeti known as Mande Barung (or forest man)

http://www.freshnews.in/large-footprints-discovered-on-borneo-may-belong-to-bigfoot-28985

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7457894.stm

Gator Captured in Chicago River

Heard about this one? The stuff of urban legend... but for real.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IbsSQM3MYwg&feature=related

Dear Spotters,

Welcome to my old/new blog site.

Ahem... so when I first started my Monster Spotting blog I started it here on Blogger. Then my publisher built a website, so I started blogging on MySpace with the idea that my Myspace page and my website would work together as friends. Well, now my website is gone, and I decided to resurrect the blog site. It should be more interesting anyway because I'll be able to update more often (which is my goal).

Some background: After my book came out I did a fair amount of blogging in tandem with some book events and so forth. Well I'm not doing as many events now and I wanted to turn my focus back toward Monster Spotting and letting folks know about cryptozoology news and trivia.

If you want to read a backlog of my blog posts check out my MySpace site www.myspace.com/monsterspotter

Otherwise, look at this site as a fresh start/a clean slate. That's the way I'm looking at it. Hope you enjoy.

Just ignore the two way old posts below. Or not. But they are really old. Seriously.