Last night I appeared live on stage in conversation with Grady Hendrix as part of Springfield-Greene County Library's Oh, the Horror! Details on that month long event are here. Photos from the event are posted to my tour schedule page here, including a video of Grady and I on local TV promoting the event.
As the 2025 version of 31 Days winds down, I think it is fitting I appeared with Hendrix on this book tour at the end of October for a couple of reasons. First, in 2 days, I will be announcing the Spokesperson for Summer Scares 2026, a reading program that was not only Grady's idea but for which he was our first Spokesperson.
And second, the reason Hendrix and I are on stage to gather in Missouri, a state neither of us live in, is to promote my book and Hendrix's contribution to it.
It got me thinking about whenHendrix's essay in that book was excerpted in CrimeReads back in April here. That was also the official cover reveal for the anthology.
But that excerpt, it was the first time the outside world got to see any part of my book. It was an important moment for the book and for me. It was the moment I knew the book was real.
Looking back at it now, it has all been a blur since that day in April. I started promoting the book on the road back in June and I have been on the road pretty much non stop since 9/18 with still one more event with Sadie Hartmann at Seattle Public Library on 11/6 until I stop for 2025 (but there are already 2 WHY I LOVE HORROR book tour event in early 2026 in the works). The book went into its third printing after only 3 weeks and people are really connecting with it.
I will reflect on all of this more tomorrow. But today, I wanted to send all of you back to that moment in April 2025-- CrimeReads with Grady Hendrix writing about how he came to love horror.
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