Oct 3, 2016

It’s October!!!

This is my favourite time of the year. I hope y’all are watching a horror movie a day. It’s important to get your daily dose of horror.

A quick update again this week. First, we’re still killing it in the CryptTV contest. I can’t thank you all enough for supporting this strange book that is so close to my twisted black heart. It means the world.

Second, I took a lot of your feedback and I rewrote the first chapter and added a new second chapter titled: THE MESSENGER. Read it now, creeps! I know you’ll love it.

Third, I’m still working on some press and other opportunities to spread the word but I need everyone’s help in making this contest huge. I don’t want to slow down just because we’re in first. I’d really like to get to 250 pre-orders and make Quill. Help me get the word out! If everyone could recommend Weaponized to just one friend that would do so much to help out our chances!

Finally, if you are spending the month watching horror movies, allow me to recommend a few. Especially some that inspired this crazy book.

Videodrome - it explores the relationship we have to the media we consume. It is perhaps more relevant now than ever.

The Thing - John Carpenter’s masterpiece of practical effects. It shows us the scariest monsters can still be human. 

The Fly - Cronenberg’s tragic love story of a man who wants nothing more than to be a legend. A must see.

Day of the Dead - My favorite of the George A Romero zombie flicks. It offers a slow deconstruction of the human psyche and what the future may hold in a world filled with zombies.

Hellraiser - Clive Barker’s classic. A tightrope walk between pleasure and pain, material and immaterial. It’s influence can be felt on every page of Weaponized.

Until next week,

Zac