Living Dangerously: Quick Hits

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Weston Ochse is a former intelligence officer and special operations soldier who has engaged enemy combatants, terrorists, narco smugglers, and human traffickers. His personal war stories include performing humanitarian operations over Bangladesh, being deployed to Afghanistan, and a near miss being cannibalized in Papua New Guinea. His fiction and non-fiction has been praised by USA Today, The Atlantic, The New York Post, The Financial Times of London, and Publishers Weekly. The American Library Association labeled him one of the Major Horror Authors of the 21st Century. His work has also won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won multiple New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than 26 books in multiple genres, his military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 has been optioned to be a movie starring Dwayne Johnson. His military sci fi series, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. Weston likes to be called a chaotic good paladin and challenges anyone to disagree. After all, no one can really stand a goody two-shoes lawful good character. They can be so annoying. It's so much more fun to be chaotic, even when you're striving to save the world. You can argue with him about this and other things online at Living Dangerously or on Facebook at Badasswriter. All content of this blog is copywrited by Weston Ochse.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Quick Hits

Had a great weekend with Eunice and Greg Magill. Eunice is a terrific writer and former editor/reviewer for Dark Wisdom Magazine. I've known her for at least ten years. We're also Haunted Mansion alums. Had a great time.

Created a website for Multiplex Fandango. I have to feed the hype machine for this, my only solo short story collection. It doesn't become available for pre-order until May. There will be come special edition copies available at world horror.

Butterfly Winter is doing awesomely. Got a couple of emails from people who love it, but strangely no reviews yet. Now how can I give out a special prize for being the first to review it if there are no reviews?

Last. Wife told me that Scary Rednecks got a five star review from a South African reader. Not that the five star isn't way cool, because it is. But a South African reader? WOW! Talk about globalization. Rednecks must be everywhereI'm just saying!