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42 Days of 666 - Day 39 with Gini Koch

For the next 42 days we're going to be counting down to the release of SEAL Team 666. why 42? Because it's the answer to the universal question.

Today we have Gini Koch. I've known Gini for several years, ever since she screamed my name across a crowded room - WINSTON!! Well, okay, she almost screamed my name. Since then we hang out whenever we can. Most recently, I saved her from a haunted room at the Gadsden Hotel in Douglas, Arizona, but that's a different story.

Gini Koch lives in Hell’s Orientation Area (aka Phoenix, AZ), works her butt off (sadly, not literally) by day, and writes by night with the rest of the beautiful people. She writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files series, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles series for Musa Publishing. As G.J. Koch she writes the Alexander Outland series for Night Shade Books. She also writes under a variety of other pen names (including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch), listens to all kinds of music 24/7, and is a proud comics geek-girl willing to discuss at any time why Wolverine is the best superhero ever (even if Deadpool does get all the best lines). She speaks frequently on what it takes to become a successful author and other aspects of writing and the publishing business.

1. What’s your favorite military movie, book or television show?

It’s a tough choice, because I truly love a lot of military movies, but when forced, like now, to choose only one, mine’s got to be “The Great Escape”. (This is, btw, ONLY because I think of “Captain America” as a superhero movie first and a military movie second.) For books, it’s probably Terry Pratchett’s “Jingo” (but only because I haven’t read “SEAL Team 666” yet). TV show would be “Hogan’s Heroes”. Yes, yes, what can I say? I tend to like the funny stuff. (See? I have so many faves I had to choose one in each category.)

2. Why is it your favorite?

“The Great Escape” is my fave because it tosses in everything that makes these kinds of movies so interesting and entertaining. You have a diverse team of misfits and unwilling specialists working against terrible odds. There’s danger, real life and death danger, there’s laughs, there’s intrigue…I could go on. And, it had James Garner as The Scrounger (the conmen are always my fave characters, regardless of genre). Sure, Steve McQueen as The Cooler King was indeed the King of Cool, but nothing looked better than James Garner in a turtleneck flashing that cocky smile. (I’m a simple creature, me.)

As for why “Jingo” as favorite book, it’s because Pratchett took different genre tropes and turned them on their sides. And I love his writing because he gets so many deep ideas and ideals across with humor.

I wouldn’t classify myself as a “classic” military reader -- I like them just like other books in other genres, but I tend to lean towards nonfiction for most of my military reading. No idea why, other than my lifelong crush on Winston Churchill. (I read his autobiography far too early in life, I suppose.)

“Hogan’s Heroes” is easy -- it was consistently funny. It’s the “funny” side of “The Great Escape”, where the good guys never die, never get recaptured (unless they want to be), and good always triumphs over evil.

3. What themes are overused? And is it overused, or just truthful observation?

You know, I’m Tropes Girl. I think things get “overused” because people enjoy them, relate to them, or want to see them. I WANT to see the good guys win. I WANT to see them fight against horrific odds and still manage to come out on top. I WANT to see the ragtag team of losers beat the superior forces. I WANT to see the elite team do what they do best for Mom, apple pie, and America and her Allies and all the good and innocent people the world over. Sure, if it’s horror, I expect bad things to happen. But I still WANT good to triumph over evil. If it doesn’t, then I demand a sequel where it does, or at least makes more headway. (Hint, hint, Wes.)

I want to see all those things as filtered by the authors, directors, and actors creating them, which will make them different, yet still the same. But each time someone writes a story with a military setting it’s a little different. Each actor brings a different nuance to a role. Each director puts his or her own mark on their film or TV show. And I want to read and see all of them.

Bottom line for me: If action, adventure, and heroism are “overused”, then call me a girl who likes repetition.

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Thanks Gini!

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Also Buy Gini Koch's Alien Diplomacy, Alien Proliferation, Alien in the Family, Alien Tango and
Touched by an Alien right NOW online or at a bookstore near you!

Alien vs. Alien releases December 4, 2012. 

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42 Days of 666 - Day 40 with Rain Graves

For the next 42 days we're going to be counting down to the release of SEAL Team 666. Why 42? Because 42 is the answer to the universal question and knowing it is the only thing that will keep you from pining over the world premiere of SEAL Team 666. Plus, we think these answers are pretty awesome, giving you a glimpse into some of the world's most interesting people.

Today we have Rain Graves. You'll probably note that she demurred from using the prescribed format. But you see, she is a poet and she lives in San Francisco, and she is the High Priestess of MoFo, so we allow this of her. I've known Rain since I was a puppy in the writing industry. Winner of the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection, she's a genius at pairing words, the tango, and can make a New York Cabbie cry for momma if pissed off. Publishers Weekly described her work as "Bukowski meets Lovecraft." If you've met her, you know that this describes her in her entirety.

The following three questions were asked to everyone. These are Rain's responses:

1. What’s your favorite military movie, book or television show?

2. Why is it your favorite? Here’s where you can ramble a bit. 

SCENT OF A WOMAN

Because it outlines what happens to those who serve *after* they come home...throughout the rest of their lives. What they live with, and what they don't think they can live with. Overused theme? OORAH. Did it work? Did Al Pacino dance a blind tango? (Some of you might now know that Rain won many Tango competitions, and has danced and trained with the best in the world. So no matter how badass Pacino truly is in this movie, methinks there's a little love of tango coloring her decision.)

TOP GUN

Because every Tom Boy wants to be Tom Cruise in this movie, and every girl wants to loose that loving feeling at least once in her life, just to get it back again. Overused theme? Cocky wannabe pilot wears his dress uniform to get laid. And it works. Chicks just want to trap a military guy for the steady paycheck and babies. And it works. Snotty show-offs don't endanger the team's safety and always save the day. Doesn't work.

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS

This one should be obvious, but it's vicious in its approach, which seems more realistic to me for those on the ground, living it, Overused theme? Lets all kill Hitler.

CLEOPATRA

Because as much as it was a love story, it was also a war story - both civil and otherwise. Overused theme? That Cleopatra was an intelligent but seductive woman who had no choice but to bed up with Rome in order to save her skin, and her throne. It does work in this movie, but not for history's sake: Cleopatra was an intelligent woman of average looks that had a commanding presence of both intimidating intellect and power, that formed strategic and assured (with heirs) alliances to gain world power through Rome.

300

Pure, raw, fighting for a cause. Right or wrong. Overused theme: Men in loin cloths bred to fight to the death don't care about armor--just their honor. Yes, it works. For me, anyway...

GLADIATOR

What happens to a man's soul after fighting campaigns and then enslavement as a result of fighting in those campaigns--sorta like our boys coming home from Vietnam and being trapped in a wheelchair, fighting the prisons of their minds after too much time in the jungle, or worse, as a POW. No love from home and country. Just a lot of forced murder to obtain freedom.

3. What themes are overused? And is it overused, or just truthful observation?

Overused themes? Not for me, no. Unless you want me to bitch about the Gladius not being historically accurate, but I'll leave that one to the newsgroup nerds.

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Check out Rain's forthcoming book, The Four Elements, with poetry also with Charlee Jacob, Linda Addison, and Marge Simon (pre-orders now avail).

Thanks Rain!

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Halloween Horror eBook Bundle - 8 Novels

Have I got a deal for you!

I rarely do a cut-and-paste post, but I thought this one promoting Storybundle.com deserved a little blog love.

Storybundle.com is a company that launched a few months ago and offers ebook bundles based around a common theme. The bundles are offered on a Pay-What-You-Want basis (minimum $1.00) and buyers can designate where the money from the sale goes – to the creators, to Storybundle, or to the charity matched to that bundle, or any combination thereof. If readers choose to pay above the bonus level, they get two additional books added to the bundle. 

 The ebooks are provided DRM free so that they can be read on any device and are available in a variety of formats. The Halloween Horror Bundle goes live on October 18th and remains available for only 21 days, closing on November 7th. 

Included in the Halloween Horror Bundle will be:

 

Main selections:
Riverwatch by Joseph Nassise
Blaze of Glory by Weston Ochse
Vicarious by Jon F. Merz
The Drought by Patricia Fulton
The Latent Dark by Martin Kee
Taking on the Dead by Annie Walls

Bonus selections:
Coming of Age by Douglas Clegg
Resurrection, Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson

The above authors include multiple Bram Stoker Award nominees and winners, multiple International Horror Guild Award nominees and winners, New York Times bestsellers, a Nebula Award nominee, and a former president of the Horror Writers Association, the world’s largest organization of professional horror writers. In other words, quality writers with quality offerings, all at a pay-what-you-want-price!

Currently StoryBundle has their Second Degree Bundle up (ebooks in the crime and thriller genre) so it's well worth your time to head over now and make sure you check back in on the 18th for the Halloween Horror Bundle. And let just say, I've read several authors contributing to the Halloween Horror Bundle- and they are well worth the donation above a $1!

42 Days of 666 - Day 41 with John Hornor Jacobs

For the next 42 days we're going to be counting down to the release of SEAL Team 666. Why 42? Because it's the answer to the universal question.

Today we have John Hornor Jacobs.  I've known John for several years. Like a lot of my friends in the industry, we met a writers convention. Since then he's published two books, the latest titled This Dark Earth, which has one of the badd-assiest trailers. The first was Southern Gods, and perhaps one of the most original and impressive debuts I've seen in over a decade. John is the reason I wished I lived in Arkansas. I'd love to go over to his house and hash out ideas and talk about our favorite things. Sadly, we tried that and the governor said that one of us had to leave. Since he was there first, well, you know the rest of the story.

The following three questions were asked to everyone. These are John's responses:

1. What’s your favorite military movie, book or television show?

My favorite military book is THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien. There's never been a more moving and personalized examination of the Vietnam War. As far as movies go, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, BAND OF BROTHERS and BATTLEGROUND are hard to beat, at least where the WWII European Theater is concerned. PATTON is amazing, too. There's a little known German author named Hans Hellmut Kirst who was a non-Nazi Wehrmacht officer and after the war, he wrote a deeply satirical novel called THE WOLVES. He also wrote some thrillers, the best known is THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS and THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES.

Going back further, there's Shelby Foote's multi-volume THE CIVIL WAR which is essential non-fiction reading. I'm a bit of a Roman and Greek history buff so I love anything set in the classical world, Pressfields GATES OF FIRE or McCullough's MASTERS OF ROME are a couple I've always enjoyed.

2. Why is it your favorite? Here’s where you can ramble a bit.

But of them all, I would have to say THE THINGS THEY CARRIED as an experience is irreplaceable and takes pre-eminence above all the others. It's a mosaic novel, the tissue of the narrative woven together through interconnected stories. And it contrasts the horrors of war against the conscience of youth. Intensely personal and brutal and moving.

In THIS DARK EARTH, I slipped in a small homage to O'Brien when describing my fictitious Army unit trying to survive after the apocalypse.

3. What themes are overused? And is it overused, or just truthful observation?

I don't think there are many themes about war that are overused. War is the greatest cipher of human civilization and we have to continually fret and worry at the conundrum it poses us - why must we kill others to assure our own safety? Our freedom? What causes mankind to make war? How does war change us as people, as a nation, as a species? If war is justified, how is it justified?

Those questions never go away as long as war is waged. And so, stories of war will always be relevant, whether writ large on a world map or told intimately from the grunt's eye view.

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Thanks John!

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42 Days of 666 - Day 42 with Mark Steensland

For the next 42 days we're going to be counting down to the release of SEAL Team 666. why 42? Because it's the answer to the universal question.

Today we have Mark Steensland. I first met Mark at NECON, if I remember right. He's a film director and had just directed and produced a short film called Peekers, based on the short story by Kealan Patrick Burke. We've since broken bread and had drink together and he's a good friend in the industry whom I enjoy watching as he gains more and more accolades.

The following three questions were asked to everyone. These are Mark's responses.

1. What’s your favorite military movie, book or television show?

"Full Metal Jacket" is by far my favorite military movie.

2. Why is it your favorite? Here’s where you can ramble a bit.

Kubrick is my favorite director and as much as I love "Paths of Glory," I think he really made the best war movie with "FMJ." All of his films are so repeatable, meaning that you can find new meanings and nuances on every subsequent viewing. I just re-watched it a few months ago and was stunned all over again. And while I could ramble on about how expertly he uses all the craft elements of filmmaking (editing, cinematography, music, etc.), I think this film especially gets at the absolute black heart of what war means for us as humans.

3. What themes are overused? And is it overused, or just truthful

observation?

My dad was a decorated World War Two Veteran (Purple Heart for stepping on a land mine that only took his toes and a Silver Star for bravery for refusing to evacuate until he had directed his platoon to successfully help take control of a German town just before the Battle of the Bulge). The thing is: he never wanted to talk about it. He died when I was young, but I heard from other relatives that as proud as he was, he never escaped the real personal cost of all the lives I'm sure he took. I don't like when films try to make it look like bravery only comes with a reward. The fact is, this kind of experience leaves a mark on your soul. I can't think of but a handful of stories that really communicate that well. "Full Metal Jacket" is at the top, as far as I'm concerned.

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Check out Mark Steensland's new book, Behind the Bookcase. Here's the book trailer that goes with it:

Thanks Mark and thanks to your father for his incredible service!

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Tom Piccirilli Help Desk - Ring Bell for Service

How To Help Tom Piccirilli (UPDATED x 2)

Note: This is copied from Brian Keene's Page for convenience. He had all the data so I'm just providing a new outlet. 

Tom Piccirilli has been a friend and mentor since BEFORE I started writing. He's always been there for me and has never hesitated to provide advice or slap me silly for doing something stupid. This is the time we pay things back. Please, take a moment and do what you can do.

As previously noted, author Tom Piccirilli is battling brain cancer. The disease is aggressive, but so is Tom. Although the surgery was a success, he has a very long fight ahead of him. There are five ways that readers, fans, friends, and peers can help.

1. You can donate money directly via this fundraiser on IndieGoGo. The fundraiser has been set up by Tom’s niece. All proceeds will go directly to Tom.

2. You can purchase one of his digital books published by Crossroads Press. From now until the end of the year, they are waiving their percentage, and 100% of the sales will go to Tom.

3. You can donate money immediately via PayPal to Tom’s sister-in-law. This money will help Tom’s wife Michelle with living expenses now (as the fundraiser money won’t be available until the end of October). See the Donate button atthe top of this page.

4. Following the lead of Crossroads Press, Chi Zine Publications have announced that until the end of the year, 100% of the sales for the digital edition of Tom’sEvery Shallow Cut will also go directly to the author.

5. For the month of October, all proceeds from the sales of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination will be donated to Tom.

Home for Militia, Porn Kings, Zombie Hunters and Writers

Are you a militia looking for a home?

Are you a writer who wants to start a writer's retreat?

Do you want to open up your own porn studio away from prying eyes?

Maybe you want to star a zombie hunting lodge on the edge of civilization?

or perhaps you're just sick and tired of people knocking on your door and trying to sell you something.

If you fit any of these categories, do I have the property for you, for a mere $425,000:

Located near Douglas, Arizona, near the border with Mexico is this lush, 125 acre spread with multiple buildings, a wall, its own well, and a watch tower.

Imagine sitting in the watch tower during a gorgeous desert morning sunrise or sunset, either a high-powered rifle or a book of poetry in your hand. Somethings are just priceless.

In all seriousness, this compound is for sale. I don't know the owner, seller, or whatever. I just think it's kind of cool that there's a complete package for whomever has the desire to buy it... and for a not too expensive price, considering.

Here's the listing.

I want an invitation if you buy it.

Update: Real Hauntings at Haunted Mansion

Stuff is cranking up at the Haunted Mansion. Here's a brief summary of what's happened thusfar:

Me and Dan the first night.

• EVP of the word Paul (also given to us on spirit box)

• EVP of the word Gretchen (who interacted with us last time)

• EVP of the word Help.

• Scraping of furniture on the floors, where there was no furniture

• Flashlights turning on and off using verbal commands

• and most of all, an attack on one of our friends

Here's an excerpt of my blog from what happened to Dan and the attack.

True B Movie Horror and the High Priestess of MoFo

DISCLAIMER: What you are about to read is all real. It's not fake. It's not a Haunted Manion Writer joke. It happened. Seriously.

So, this morning we talked about what had happened last night. In the clear light of a Marin County day it seemed surreal. I still hadn't come to grips with what I'd witnessed. Straight out of a B horror movie, it was something we'd seen happen to actors over and over. Which might explain why I was a little numb to it when it happened.  Still, when Sephera yelled down the stairs for Rain to come running with the words, "Rain, come quick. There's a poltergeist event happening," I was the second person trampling up the murder stairs.

Running to the far end of the third floor, I approached a room shrouded in darkness. Not just that the light was off, but it was darker than the other dark rooms. Ghost Girl Kristin was in the room standing with her arms akimbo. Clearly even she'd never experienced such a thing.

"It's pulling Dan under the bed and it won't let go," someone yelled.

And as my gazed finally pierced the darkness, I saw Dan, on the floor, half under the bed, his face filled with terror, his hands reaching out for anyone, anything.

(To see the rest, I'm afraid you have to go over to the Haunted Mansion Blog -- Here)

Haunted Mansion Writer's Retreat.

I'm currently in San Francisco, staring out across the bay towards Marine County. Somewhere within those fog-shrouded hills lays the Haunted Mansion. I was there two years ago. It is really haunted. It's really scary. But there was safety in numbers and those of us who were there depended on each other. This year there are twice as many of us. The number of people is going to do one of two things. Either it will drive the spirits farther in the house and we'll have less experiences, or the added energy will stir the spirits up. I'm not sure which one I want. I'm also not sure what will happen.

We'll find out together.

To keep appraised, be sure to monitor the Haunted Mansion Blog. We'll also be posting updates on Twitter using hashtag #hmr12

Here's a link to the pictures from the first Haunted Mansion Writer's Retreat.

Social Media Audits and SEAL Porn Tattoos

Do any of you pay any attention who reads your blogs? I know my mom does, thanks mom. And my wife, thanks, hon. And of course my agent, thanks Bob. But other than that, I don't know who reads me. Or why. Or where they are? Or anything about them.

In fact, why is it important?

Well, it seem that St. Martin's Press is pretty sophisticated. They conduct social media audits of their authors' sites. In fact, I was found wanting.

Wanting? Me? Seriously? Like I don't spend enough time trying to convince other people how awesome I am? Really? Does this social media person realize that I have a Klout Score of 68?

But they they explained.

And they were right.

I was wanting... a better way to express myself and provide information to fans, friends and potential stalkers.

Many of you might have noticed that I redid my blogger. Color, scheme, font size, added pages, etc. This is result of what I have come to refer to as The Audit!

Conducted by St. Martin's Press Social Media Audit Agent, better known as Paul, the audit was pretty robust. I followed as many of the recommendations as I could... my accomplishment of some of them were limited to my ability to understand cascading style sheets (which is zero). But I worked on them nonetheless. I don't want to upset Paul. I want Paul to be happy. After all, Paul has the ability to change my fortune with a few punches at the keyboard.

Hi Paul, We love you! Ignore the woman to my right. She's not sticking out her tongue at you.
She thinks you're a doctor.

But I was asked about the analytics. What are they telling me about those folks who come to my site? What are they telling me about you?

Well...

It tells me that 31% of you use Firefox, 29% of you use Chrome, and 20% of you use IE. That tells me you are technologically savvy and realize that the free browser that came with your computer might not be the best. It means you take the time to choose. Less than 1% of you use Maxthon and Rockmelt browsers. Those sound cool, but I have no idea who they are. My guess is they are android viewer platforms.

Eighty percent of you come from a windows based computer system, which makes you like me.

Most people find me through google. Recent searches parameters include the words porn, SEAL, and tattoo. So my goal is to have at least one post a week that uses these words in the title.

And thank you Slovenians! More of you have visited my site than the French, Italians, Canadians, and Thais. I seriously have to get the German's more involved. They're last in the list of countries where you are from.

I also have an unusual amount of left-handed readers. With 10% of the population left-handed, I have 32% left-handed readership.I wonder what that means?

That's a good start on the analytics. Once I dive a little deeper into the data, I'll be able to get more information to you and Paul.

What are your recommendations? How could I do better? What do you want to see more of? Less of?

Now off to work on my next blog post, SEAL Tattoos Porn Picture of Snookie and Lady Gaga! 



PS. Shout out to Kym and Steph! Thanks for slogging through my drek!

Possible New Bio for Your Approval

After careful consideration and with the absence of reservation, I've firmly decided that this might be my next bio. I think it says it all without saying much, and includes enough information to give grist to identity thieves.

But I leave it up to you.

I’m a literary stuntman, superhero for rent, yakuza of the written word and a cowboy in the boat of Ra. You can find me under S in the Yellowpages, but not under R. I’ve been to more than 50 countries, speak two Asian languages with pathetic currency, have dipped my toes in the Coral Sea, hiked the Great Wall of China, peed in the Danube, and played ping pong on Wake Island. I eat life in great gulps and only rest when I’m forced to. Given the choice to read, write, or travel the world, I’d do all three then shoot the man who made me choose. I’m a pacifist with a killer’s knowledge, spent 28 years in the military, and can break down a 50 caliber machine gun blindfolded. I like long walks on the beach, poems by Ginsberg, and would chew off my left arm if it meant I could eat Seafood at every meal. I was born south of Devil’s Tower, Wyoming with a herd of other misplaced Welshmen in the county named after my ancestor. I was raised in the pastoral splendor of Chattanooga, Tennessee, loved living in the cultural whirlwind of Los Angeles, and will someday spend my days in a perfect spot where the water is to my front and a mountain is to my back and my wine cellar is always full. Until then, I live in the Sonoran Desert where I wile away my days racing tarantula wasps, watching border patrol Death Race 2000 and the black helicopters dance along the horizon. Oh, and I write, too.

What do you think?

Two Days in NYC - In Pictures

Through pictures...July 6th and7th, 2012

Empire State!!!

You want me? You've had me.

Somewhere up there lurks St. Martin's Press.

Sharp!

Angels Editors on my shoulder

Rogues Gallery - Wolverton, Deneen, Ochse, Joseph

Stainless steel elevator door

random hall artwork inside The Gershwin

When was drinking I thought he was real

I thought this was real too

Author and Marketing Guru - Go Kym

Mon petite L'hotel

Lunch on the Upper West Side

Jack Ketchum in his habitat

Walked back to Grand Central

Locals

Pit Stop

Another pit stop

another pit stop

Finally at the airport. Duck ramyen.  Doh!

Sea Bass.  Doh!

SEAL Team 666 Premier Announced

Do you want to get your hands on SEAL Team 666 two weeks before its official release? 

There's only one way you can make this happen.

Attend TusCon 39. (Information)

What is this you say? Is this a new radioactive isotope? Is it new rocket ship built by Raytheon?

TusCon is only the oldest Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Convention in Arizona. Guests of Honor have included Theodore Sturgeon, Vernor Vinge, Robert Bloch, Karl Edward Wagner, Diana Gabaldon, John Ringo, Laurell K. Hamilton, Weston Ochse, Stephen R. Donaldson, Tim Powers, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher and Shannon K. Butcher, to name just a few. This years Guest of Honor recipient is S.M. Stirling. 

It's really a fabulous convention at an all suite hotel, where for far less than a hundred bucks a day you can have a great room, meet terrific people, and be able to swim in an outdoor pool in November.

MaryElizabeth Hart, publicity manager for Mysterious Galaxy, has arranged to have the first hardback copies of SEAL Team 666 available for convention goers. She had to pull some strings and bend back some fingers to make this happen, but in the spirit of never-say-die special operations forces, she came through.

I don't know the exact time yet when we'll hold a release party for SEAL Team 666. I'll get with the convention committee and see when they want to do it. 

But when I know, you will know.

All you have to do is be there.

SEAL Team 666 bought by MGM

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (aka MGM), who brought you Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, The Wind and the Lion, as well as a whole host of amazing films, including the upcoming Hobbit, bought SEAL Team 666 (written by me). I'm flabbergasted, honored and amazed. Thanks Brendan Deneen and Peter Joseph for making this happen!



Here's the industry news so far -- Book-to-film news! Weston Ochse's SEAL TEAM 666, recently sold to MGM, with Brendan Deneen and Peter Joseph attached to produce for Macmillan Films, by Sylvie Rabineau at RWSG Agency on behalf of Thomas Dunne Books.

The book comes out in November and can be pre-ordered here