Hah! You expected free beer, right? Pub, in this case, means publicity.
Anyway, you already know I'm into BSP (Blatant Self-Promotion). I have written for magazines, newspapers and bathroom walls, but I've also gotten some free publicity from some newspapers and other media outlets. I'll stick what I could find here.
Warning: Some of this is too old since I'm too lazy to update. Yeah, I know, harsh.
So I'm still getting pub, just not that good about posting it here. Part of the reason is it's not really easy to scan a huge newspaper article and try and fit it on here. So the ones you see below were from when I had the energy to wrestle with it.
I also haven't included my monthly Pop Syndicate articles or my business articles which are published every other month. (Update, I guess I can't put up my Pop Syndicate articles because they seem to have folded)
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May 2011, my alma mater, Western Michigan University, published an article on my books. Very nice. Here's the link (if the link is broken, It's scanned here.
I'm too lazy to scan it here, but got a nice little blurb in Anderson Bookstore's pamphlet for their Feb 2011 YA Author Breakfast. Other names you might recognize included 'Weird' Al Yankovic. Hah, so I've got my name next to his in a booklet. See the Rogues Gallery for a pic of us together.
Here's a nice article written about my presentation at South Suburban College's Family Literary Night. Actually, it's a bit more about their awesome adult reading program, but there's a nice blurb about me and a pc.
Fellow author Sean Hayden interviewed me on his blog.
Here's something weird. My article "What a Nice Guy" (which appeared in Business Credit) now appears in Encyclopedia Brittanica On-line. How cool is that? Here's the link if you're interested. It takes you to their site where you have to purchase a subscription.However, you can read it for free though by going to my business tab. Anyway, this is pretty cool. I grew up loving Encyclopedia Brittanica and Who's Who in America. I never figured I'd get into both of them.
Authors Blake Crouch, Joe Konrath (writing as Jack Kilborn), Jeff Strand and F Paul Wilson will be posting my review of the ARC Draculas on Joe's website www.jakonrath.com and the Draculas website
Angela Wilson from Pop Syndicate gave me thanks for my help in her Life After Pop Syndicate goodbye article.
Best Selling author Lisa Lutz will be posting a copy of the interview (see below) on her website! More BSP for me!
I think it will be on this page.
August 2010 Another interview with a best selling author for Pop Syndicate. Here's my talk with Lisa Lutz, author of the Spellman Files (Got on the front page, too!)
July 2010 met with the teens at Midlothian Library. Here's the newsletter that came out after.
April 16, 2010 - update. I posted the fun WKAN radio interview! Thanks to Allison Beasley for sending it. Check out the Videos tab.
Got a mention on page 5 of the April 2010 issue of Tan Magazine.
Feb 2010 - An article I wrote won second place in the national NACM writing competition. I got money out of it, my article went into their magazine and no frogs were killed. Anyway, if it's not there already, I'll post it in "Business Stuff" soon. (update, it's there)
In 2009, Pop Syndicate asked me to start writing a monthly humor column. Check out my "Blog" tab for links. I get to write about whatever I want. It's pretty cool, and I've done interviews with best selling authors Christopher Moore, Lisa Lutz, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson so far.
Pop Syndicate did a "Virtual sitdown" with me on Sept. 18, 2008. Here's the link ...um... here (<<click on the 'here')
Here's Echelon Press publisher Karen Syed's blog spot. She let me do a guest blog on August 19, 2008. Check it out here.
I was quoted extensively in two Business Credit articles (May 08 and Sept 08). Go to the business tab if ya' wanna check 'em out.
(Aug 08 - update: I got rid of the Confidential Tab, cuz my YA book, Fang Face is going to come out in 2009. I was using the tab to communicate with the kids at the school. Here's the page if you want to read the articles... which are bomb!
Here is one of the absolute BEST articles about my books, from Dec 07 Russell Publications! Awesome.publicity!! ... wait, dern-it ... having technical difficulties... Wait, here ya' go
If it's too hard to read, here's a better one, if you
don't mind reading sideways
Western Michigan University announcement of my books in their Dec. 07 alumni magazine ... went out to tens of thousands of alumni... or alums ... or plums ... or plumbs
Okay, here's something cool. Because of all of my articles in Cynic Magazine, the wonderful editors of Cynic advertised my new book !! For free !! Awesome!! I'm very grateful. Check it out here. Also, they published a new article of mine. Check out "Huh?" tab for the one named 'Air.' Good stuff.
Here's the Clues (newsletter of Mystery Writers of America) announcement of my new book (Sept 07)
The New Lenox Patriot did a great front page article on my new book on August 7, 2007 ... worth reading... well, in my humble opinion. They made me look good ... no mean feet, er, feat. Click here
Here's an article I wrote on humor writing that was published on the Wicked Wordsmith website on June 16, 2007. Good stuff.
April 2007 Mystery Writers of America, Inc. newsletter "Clues" announcement of The Next Adventures of Guy ... more wackiness. Click this thingy.
I wrote a short piece on "writer's block" for The Grande Life Magazine for their April 2007 issue. Check it out here.
Here's my interview from the February 2007 Love is Murder writers conference with Chris Walsh Angelo for "The Writer's Webcast" on WaukTown Radio Click me
Here's an awesome article from the January 25, 2007 issue of the New Lenox Reporter (Russell Publications). Click here to read.
Homer Horizon October 12, 2006 article. Ignore the part where they say I used to work at a Borders bookstore. What they actually meant to say was that I wrote a lot of the book at a Borders in their cafe, snorking down massive quantities of caffeine along the way.
October 2006 announcement in University of Dayton's Erma Bombek Writer's newsletter.
Joliet Herald News May 21, 2006 article. Good stuff, they gave me almost a third of a page for a Sunday issue. Whoo-hoo!!!
Here's a little blurb in the Daily Southtown (part of the Sun Times) to advertise a Book Fair. They also announced my new book in another issue, but I can't find it right now. Maybe later.
Book stores: Borders (December 2006, don't have it yet)
My first published Chicago Tribune article. Click here.
