I've been pretty effusive in my praise of John Hornor Jacobs' debut, Southern Gods (see here and here), even naming it one of my top five novels of 2010 despite not having been published yet.
So it's a bit naughty of me to have dropped the ball now that it has finally been released. Yes, released!
Here's a photo of my bookshelf as proof:
There, tucked between the horror awesomeness of Neverland and The Reapers Are The Angels, and deservedly so. I'd show you the cover, but it suffered from a delivery incident :-( Nothing that lying under a stack of Computer Science tomes can't fix.
Anyway, go here or here or here and buy your own copy. You won't regret it (assuming you don't have the postal service of a third world country).
In the meantime, John has a whole list of release-week links for you to browse over on his blog.
I especially enjoyed this interview over at The Man Eating Bookworm and thisreview over at Dead in the South.
Go and read. Enjoy.
It's alive!
Well, almost.This blog was a little project I maintained from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2011. I made a few friends through it, got more than a few free books, then took it all down after real life intruded to a degree that made it all feel too difficult. (Despite informing some author publicity agents of this - more than once - some of them kept blindly sending books. I wonder if their clients realise how hopeless they are? One of them even started sending medical thrillers - Googling for "doctor blogs" appeared to be the limit of their publicity skills.)
A while ago I found my old The Doctor Is In archive, and thought I might as well have it sitting there in "zombie mode". Gradually I'll be restoring my old posts. Even the cringe-worthy ones, of which there are many. I may even get back into the swing of things and post some news.
Alas, my old address (dochorror.blogspot.com) has been taken over by a squatter, and they've populated their blog with content stolen from various other blogs. Seriously, even their "Welcome!" blurb is stolen from Horror Movie A Day. Fucking leeches.

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