All 5 BookWyrms

= The ForeWarner =
The Newsletter of Horror Author Matthew Warner
February 22, 2003

Contents:

1. Book Reviews & Interviews
2. Pre-Order Already, Gosh Darnit
3. Appearances
4. 'Blackmail Matt' Contest Winners Announced
5. Coming & Current Attractions
6. Recommended Reading

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1. BOOK REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

Aside from making the 2002 preliminary ballot for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award, "The Organ Donor" is racking up--at least by my standards--some incredible press coverage. Here's just a few of the items that you can read, listen to, or watch on the Media page of www.MatthewWarner.com.

-->Book review by E.C. McMullen, Jr. (www.FeoAmante.com; Feb. '03)
Excerpt:
"I couldn't believe how good it was. . . . Matt Warner took the used up idea and sowed a story full of old myths born anew. Old ideas wove into a modern world; and has created a world that doesn't end with The Organ Donor, but creates something both complete within itself, and a launch pad for so many tales to come, whether by Warner or others. . . . For the first time in Story Time--all 5 BookWyrms. The Organ Donor is a straight-on modern classic of Horror."

-->Book review by Bob L. Morgan, Jr. (www.SavageNight.com; Feb. '03)
Excerpt:
"By the time I looked up from Organ Donor, I'd covered somewhere around seventy-five pages and suddenly realized I had to get something else done that day. . . . This story moves like a finely tuned Porsche on an open desert highway with no Smokeys in sight. That's to say, Organ Donor moves fast." 5 Daggers of Death

-->Radio interview on the Jerry Lentz Xperimentz radio show (Feb. 3, '03)

-->A short write-up in Montpelier: James Madison University's alumni magazine (Winter '03)

-->Leonard Garment, former White House Counsel, discusses "The Organ Donor" on C-SPAN Book TV (Political book fair, Sept. 25, '02.)

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2. PRE-ORDER ALREADY, GOSH DARNIT

As you'll see on the opening page of www.MatthewWarner.com, there's four--count 'em: onetwothreefour--ways for you to pre-order the trade paperback edition of "The Organ Donor," whether you prefer using your credit card, checkbook, fax machine, or good ole fashioned stamp & envelope. Or if you prefer going through a respected bookseller like www.Shocklines.com, there's that too.

-->In June, the publisher will ship me all pre-orders so I can autograph them to you, by name. Good deal, eh?

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3. APPEARANCES

March 2, 2003
6 p.m.

Waldenbooks
1216 Mall Run Road
Uniontown, PA 15401
ph. 725-439-3272

-->Other authors present will include M. Stephen Lukac (author of "Oogie Boogie Central") and Brian Keene (author of "The Rising").

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4. 'BLACKMAIL MATT' CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED

In the last issue of this newsletter, I said there was a "mystery" interview of me floating on the Internet that sullies my choirboy image--an interview so over-the-top that I might as well mail it to myself in a black envelope. I promised mystery prizes to anyone who could correctly identify it to me in e-mail.

(drum roll, please)

The mystery interview was published on TheMurderHole.com in its November 2002 "Bad Boys of Horror" issue. With tongue firmly in cheek, I talked about things like "my first time," what my computer whispers to me when I've had too much, and the definition of "instant sex."

The contest winners were Deena Holland, Meghan Fatras and Wendy Brewer. They each received a color copy of my hysterically screwed-up senior high school photo as it was published in the October 31, 1990 issue of The Fairfax Journal, when I won its 6th Annual "Scary Story Contest." In the true spirit of blackmail, I fully expect Deena, Meghan and Wendy to use this incriminating artifact against me at the worst possible time.

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5. COMING & CURRENT ATTRACTIONS

More information about the following titles are on the Publications page of www.MatthewWarner.com.

-->"Blessed Among Women," a short story collaboration with Wendy Brewer.
Coming later this year; for sale at www.Shocklines.com.
Appearing in the FAMILY PLOTS anthology (Wild Roses Publications), which will also include stories from national and bestselling horror writers like Jack Ketchum, Tom Piccirilli, Graham Masterton and Douglas Clegg.

-->"Snow Snakes," short story
Coming soon to www.TheChanceryHouse.com.

-->"Middle Passage," short story
EXTREMES III: TERROR ON THE HIGH SEAS anthology (Lone Wolf Publications)

-->"Hungry," short story
STORIES OF FEAR III anthology (Osoroshii.com)

-->"At Death We'll Not Part," short story
TOURNIQUET HEART anthology (Prime Books)

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6. RECOMMENDED READING

Contact me if you need help locating these fine works:

-->"Holly Rollers," a novella by James Newman (CD audio)
There's two proselytizers on your doorstep; one has a hairlip, the other has a gun. Need I say more?

-->"Talking Smack," a collection by Brian Keene (CD audio)
Hear one of the fathers of gangsta horror at his in-your-face finest.

-->"The Invoker," a novel by Jon F. Merz (paperback)
Part 2 of the Lawson Vampire Series, a cool blend of crime noir and vampire fiction.

-->"The Lost," a novel by Jack Ketchum (paperback)
Jack Ketchum is one of those writers at the tippy-top of the horror genre, and this book is a great example of why. It's also a prime example of how horror can succeed without using one smidgen of the supernatural.

-->"Hyperion," a novel by Dan Simmons (paperback)
Dan Simmons is another guy at the top of the horror genre, but this Hugo Award-winning novel sits at the top of the science fiction genre, in my opinion.

-->"Fall of Hyperion," a novel by Dan Simmons (paperback)
The sequel to "Hyperion."

-->"Wither," a novel by J.G. Passarella (paperback)
After reading this novel, you'll think those Salem witch-burners weren't such bad people after all. Winner of the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel.

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"Matthew Warner can write a novel with one hand while fending off an army of trolls with the other."

--Paul Melniczek (www.authorsden.com/pauljmelniczek), author of "A Halloween Harvest," (Flesh & Blood Press), "Restless Shades" and "Frightful October" (both from Double Dragon Publishing)

Matthew Warner
Falls Church, VA
www.MatthewWarner.com


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