2011: The Year Pulp Broke

Can't believe I've been keeping this blog for over six years now. Started out as a lark, when I received my first fiction book deal, and figured I had to be like all of the other cool kids and creat a blog to promote it. I named this blog after my first novel, the now out-of-print Secret Dead Men, and the name kind of stuck. At times, the name is pretty damn on point: weeks will go by without a post. There's really no mission here, other than me writing about my own crap or books I like or movies I've seen or events I think you might like. With the advent of Twitter, my blogging has really taken a blow. Links to news stories or bits of random brain matter that would have ended up here now end up on my Twitter feed in 140 character bursts. (And please do follow me there! I'm pretty active on Twitter. Maybe more than I should be...)

So does that mean Secret Dead Blog is... left for dead?

Hell no. I still like my blog. I want to use it more often, for things that don't fit into 140 character bursts. And to goad myself into blogging a bit more, I asked the mad genius behind Proletkult Graphik to create this blog's first professionally-designed banner. See above; isn't it a scuzzy thing of beauty? (Check out Proletkult's sample section; if you dig retro pulp stuff, I highly recommend these guys. Or, this guy, as it were.)

And 2011 will be a busy year for me. Quite possibly my busiest ever. I have no fewer than four books scheduled for release (my own trilogy for Mulholland Books, as well as Dark Revelations, my third collaboration with Anthony E. Zuiker), as well as an assortment of weird comic book projects and reprints and other things that defy categorization. But like always, I don't want Secret Dead Blog to be all about the shameless self-promotion. I want to talk more about other people's books. Books I dig. Books I want. Books I wish I wrote. Obscure writers. Crazy pieces of Philadelphia history. And whatever else strikes my fancy.

Hope you'll stick with me. And if you've been reading and enjoying Secret Dead Blog over the years, thank you. I'll try to keep up... well, whatever the hell it is I've been doing.