UGLY STORIES ABOUT TERRIBLE PEOPLE DOING HORRIBLE THINGS, VOLUME ONE

The audiobook is FINALLY live!

AND! I have free promo codes for anyone willing to give it a listen and provide an honest (no, not glowing, just honest) review on Amazon and Goodreads...and anywhere else you'd like to review!

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October 25, 2025:
In-store book signing (10 am to 5 pm) - Indigo Markville store
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September 13, 2025:
dReadCon 2025! Robert Edgar Walton and I will be at the Burlington Holiday Inn, talking stupidly, making fun of each other, bugging the attendees, and trying to sell our stuff. You can get more info on it here.
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September 6, 2025:
In-store book signing (10 am to 5 pm) - Indigo Oshawa store
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August 16, 2025:
In-store book signing (10 am to 5 pm) - Indigo Oshawa store
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August 15, 2025:
UGLY STORIES ABOUT TERRIBLE PEOPLE DOING HORRIBLE THINGS, VOLUME TWO should...hopefully...barring supernatural or other disasters and acts of god, be available in audio format
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July 31, 2025:
The end date for all the audio files for UGLY STORIES ABOUT TERRIBLE PEOPLE DOING HORRIBLE THINGS, VOLUME TWO to be submitted for approval (and eventual release!)
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July 26, 2025:
In-store book signing (10 am to 5 pm) - Indigo Markville store
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July 13, 2025:
In-store book signing (10 am to 5 pm) - Indigo Oshawa store
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July 7, 2025:
GEORGE WATERTOWER AND OTHER CHILDHOOD TERRORS. This is an anthology I was invited to (as a Watertower Hill author, and it's all about urban legends...those ghosts and hauntings and killers' stories we all heard around a camp fire or at a sleep over, created to scare kids straight...or scare them out of their minds..

And so, here is the amazing cover (designed after pulp horror magazine covers from the 50s and 60s) for the upcoming anthology.

And here are all the contributors:

Caleb Jones - "Birdie's Bridge"
Jen Hart (Crymsyn Hart) - "Dark Phantom"
Jason Daughrity - "He Never Let Go: The Legend of George Watertower"
Jenny Toupin - "The Tunnels"
Joe Scipione - "The Witch of Eastham"
John Cady - "The 23rd Annual Unauthorized Pukwudgie Run"
Joshua Loyd Fox - "The Curious Killings of Penny George"
(Lexx Christian) Alexandra Christian - "Title Tentative"
R Kenward Jones - "You Dirty Rat"
Rebecca Cuthbert - "The Missing Thirteen"
Dale Long (Robert E. Walton) - "Arnold's Loop"
Susan H. Roddey - "A Message for the Devil"
Steven L. Shrewsbury - "Witch's Chair"
Tobin Elliott - "The Ghost Cycle"
Westley Smith - "The Road to Hell"

Foreword by Heather Daughrity and edited by Joshua Loyd Fox. Available July 7th, 2025 from Watertower Hill Publishing!
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June 7, 2025:
In-store book signing (10 am to 5 pm) - Indigo Oshawa store
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May 19, 2025:
My expertly edited voice files should be back (thanks, Gary!) and ready for upload, and now, I wait with supreme anticipation for the brilliant Jenn Johnson to bring the actual stories to life.
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April 3, 2025:
All my parts for the audiobook version of UGLY STORIES ABOUT TERRIBLE PEOPLE DOING HORRIBLE THINGS, VOLUME TWO have been recorded!
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March 31, 2025:
The deadline for the incredible Jenn Johnson to complete the narration of UGLY STORIES, Vol 1 (which means it should be available roughly April 7 or so...)
UPDATE: serious delays on this one, looking like it'll be available around May 11 or so.
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: turns out, May 16 was the magic day. Not bad...ONLY five weeks late!
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March 1, 2025:
I'm really stepping outside my comfort zone, but the UGLY STORIES collections have short notes about each story, detailing either how I came to write the story, or how I feel about it, or some other info. I thought, for the audiobook versions, why not record those personal recollections myself. So, today, I got down all my parts for the audiobook.
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Anything that happens to be noteworthy in the otherwise dull life of this horror author will be noted down for posterity here. How exciting!