A Year of Hitchcock

Best deal in town

Posted inAlfred Hitchcock, Works by Eric
Jim, my co-author on A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense (Scarecrow Press, 2009), tells me that this deal at Borders is the best price so far. Enter promotional code IPL1255 at checkout and you'll save 25%. We love this book, can't wait for it to hit the streets, and we hope it does well enough that we can pull the price down on our follow-up (which is underway). Speaking of Hitchcock, the features on this new DVD set are amazing, but be wary of bum discs. Some of them won't play in many DVD players.…

A Quickee Linkee

Posted inRandom Musings, Uncategorized
So someone pointed out to me that a blogger called Comicsgirl has linked to my Sandman series. She's got a nice comics-centric blog. Check it out. Thanks for the kind words, CG, here's a link right back atcha. Neil Gaiman has linked to the series three times on his journal, so I expect lots of Sandman fans have been reading. That's rather gratifying, but also entirely unexpected, seeing as I began writing it just to entertain myself. It looks like one of my quotes is being used in the marketing materials for some Avatar: The Last Airbender DVDs. That's pretty…
This music is plugtastic!

This music is plugtastic!

Posted inMusic, Works by Eric
The first record from Carl Sagan's Ghost is out and ready for download. Go here to get it. It's ambient music, very soothing stuff, the kind of think you put on and mellow out to. I'll have an epic 23-minute remix of "Soldania" on an upcoming EP to accompany the album. Ideally, it will be good sleeping music. Yes, such a thing exists. I swear to god. Few things are better than laying in bed on a hot summer night, sweat clinging to your skin and the breeze touching you like some unseen lover, and Windy & Carl just kind…
Tellin’ Stories

Tellin’ Stories

Posted inRandom Musings, Writing
Writing about Neil Gaiman's Sandman the last few weeks has reminded me of how envious I am of him. Not in a BAD way, mind you. Rather, in the way that makes you more eager than ever to bust your ass and create things until the world sits up, takes notice, and says, "Okay, good. You can live your life doing this full time." Here's a guy who was allowed to create something that afforded him the ability to write pretty much any kind of story he wanted to write. Horror. Fantasy. Adventure. Mythology. Romance and historical and crime and…

Hey comic artists! Look here

Posted inUncategorized
So I'm putting together a comic anthology. I'll be writing the whole thing and working with an array of artists to bring it all to life. There are already five artists on board, including some amazingly talented guys with published work to their name, and a handful of others "in talks" ... but I'm looking for more. So if you can draw, and can work at a reasonable pace, and would like to see your work in print alongside some really dynamite artists, get in contact with me. Show me your stuff. Show me your sequential art. And we'll get…