Eating steak and drinking in pubs. When I'm not pursuing my vices, I enjoy most outdoor activities, writing, reading, messing around on the piano and trying to sell more books!
Music
Movies
Unforgiven, Heat, The Insider, The Great Escape, The Big Lebowski. Aside from a few exaggerations, the James Bond movies have done a good job bringing my life to the screen.
Always remember:
Television
Not a big television guy in general . . . but I am addicted to HOUSE.
Books
Where to even begin . . .? Steinbeck, Stephen King, John O'Hara, Truman Capote, Shane Stevens, Martin Amis, Ian Fleming, Bill Fitzhugh, Clive Barker . . . the list goes on and on.
About me: I'm an author of historic true-crime books. Coming in May 2009 is WAR OF WORDS: A TRUE TALE OF NEWSPRINT AND MURDER. Set in 1880s San Francisco, the book tells the tale of Charles de Young, founding editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and his deadly public feud with Isaac Kalloch, a hellfire preacher whose lust for the ladies equaled his desire to be mayor.
My other books include IN THE DARK: THE TRUE STORY OF THE BLACKOUT RIPPER, published last year by Penguin, tells the tale of Scotland Yard's hunt for a Jack-the-Ripper type killer in 1940s London.
ON THE HOUSE: THE BIZARRE KILLING OF MICHAEL MALLOY, also published by Penguin, hit stores in October 2004. The story of New York City's most outrageous murder, it's an account of criminal stupidity at its grandest.
THE KILLING SKIES, my third book, is something of a departure. Six years of researching and writing, the book is a detailed history of the British bomber offensive against Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel SACRIFICE is now in stores everywhere, including Amazon.com! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride! Here are a couple reviews it's gotten so far:
“SACRIFICE is a full frontal assault on your senses. It is a dark, brutal, bloody and terribly frightening book. Everson went deep into some dark abyss to bring this book to the light of day.... I highly recommend SACRIFICE.” —Famous Monsters of Filmland
“John Everson manages in SACRIFICE to dispense buckets of blood, provide edgy perversity, and walk the tenuous tightrope of horror and sex without falling: It’s rather an amazing feat.” –Hell Notes
AWAKENING Volume One is now available for Pre-Order at your Local Comic Shop! Brought to you by the fine folks at Archaia, publishers of Mouse Guard, Artesia, Okko, The Killer, and so on…
”To Derrick’s disbelief, she utters one word:
Zombies. ”
All you have to do is print the pic, bring it to your local comic shop, and you get some sweet existential horror this June. Download link is at the top of the image once it loads.
“The coolest and most original zombie piece since The Walking Dead got under way…” – Broken Frontier.
“Derrick Peters is where Phillip Marlowe meets George Romero.” – Horrorview
Hope is thing is going swell. Looking forward to your new tome. To a fellow RUSH fan, go see the new movie "LOve you Man", RUSH makes a cameo and the movie is actually quite funny.
I've been hibernating too long. It's snowing here again today, so I can't get outside. It's great weather for writing.Thought I'd take a break and drop by to see what is happening in your world.
hey stranger! we're coming to town next month and are planning a mass gathering o' former ANG'ers at El Balazo in P'ton for lunch Fri. 1/9. Let me know if you can make it!
For your holiday reading by the yule fire of the computer monitor, I offer "Christmas, the Hard Way." I wrote this short fantasy tale about magic and Christmas more than a decade ago as a gift for friends and family and I've now posted it on my website. I hope my MySpace friends will enjoy it for the first time this year.
For those who'd like a rockin' Christmas Carol to go with their reading, I've also added a song to my MySpace profile that I wrote and recorded a few years back called "Show Me Christmas". Just click on my MySpace profile to listen!
The next time you switch on your computer, will the unseen be waiting to enter your mind or are they already there?
DI Sean Fagan investigates the ritual murder of young women and finds links between each victim and the world’s most popular computer game, Princess Kay-ling (PKL). When police high-tech units examine hard drives taken from the murder victims’ PCs, traces of subliminal psychotic induction (SPI) are found. This SPI induces victims to trust and obey characters from the PKL game. When a fourth woman is murdered in Ireland, Sean realises he hunts a serial killer capable of global influence. He also discovers the Government is aware and observing. When his own young daughters become involved, nightmare encircles him.
Publication Dated: 1 November 2008 Classification: Crime Thriller ISBN: 978-1-4389-1834-1 (sc) ISBN Ebook: 978-1-4389-1835-8 (e) Author: James McKenna Price: £7. 99 + p&p Binding: Paperback
About the author As a child, James McKenna travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Far East with his military parents. He joined the UK army at 15 and attended the Royal School of Military Engineering. After passing selection he served with the Para
hello Simon How are things? I hope everything in your publishing world is going full bore. I am doing pretty well, but I may become a subject of one of your books. The city I live in is all bunged up with construction. it is such a small city that one road being bunged cock ups the whole bloody thing. So as a result driving to work is a living hell. i am beginning to have intense homocidial feelings, so if anything happens I give you full rights to my sordid story. Take care and have a pint on me.
Hey Simon! I haven't heard from you guys in forever! We have to get together at some point--I miss your "drinks well with others" shirt. :) Hope you are doing well!
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel 
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