Just finished 3x interviews today about the #CoffinHop. One little 5-question nugget is available now on Fellow #CoffinHop alumni Mary Rajotte’s awesome new site Bloody Bookish (be sure to check out her other fivers with Hoppers Kristy Carey, the awesome Dan Dillard and my arch-nemesis C.W. LaSart). Followed that up with a lovely 45 minute convo with #CoffinHop co-founder Julie Jansen and Tim Ward of AudioTim (look for that tomorrow or Thursday, including giveaway copies of A Career Guide To Your Job In Hell and Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy) and finished up with an in-depth whack of questions with the awesome Amy Marshall of A.K.Marshall.com, who will also be reviewing, and giving away even more copies of Living Dead! Then stay tuned for more fun with R.A. Evans later in the week!

Now, I know today got bunked up wiith what was supposed to be music day, formerly movie day, and I ended up having no ‘new’ content or a music day giveaway… so here’s the deal… First 5 people who comment will (eventually) get a super secrety secret link to my spooktacular annual MP3-J  (That’s like a DJ that spins MP3’s) mega-ultimo Halloween Mix 2012, which I promise to have finished and figure out how to upload somewheres by Friday night. And don’t forget to keep HOPPING at the #CoffinHop www.coffinhop.blogspot.com

Ciao miei amici!

So the winner of yesterday’s contest and digital copies of High Midnight and Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy is… drum roll per favore… BEV (no last name proffered or required) I will email you about your prizes today, Bevvers.

In other news, today’s post will NOT be Movie Day, as I received something viddy viddy especial in the mail last night. Movie Day will now be tomorrow and today will be music-centric. I’m still waiting to hear on prizing, but I’m hoping to offer a review and digital copies of the new That Handsome Devil album,  “The Heart Goes To Heaven, The Head Goes To Hell”. So stay tuned for la bella musica! On a side-note, I just made my pledge to the almighty #CJSW, greatest radio on earth. If you are at all familiar with them, I suggest you do the same. If you are not hip to that jive, go get you some CJSW (there’s a little header at the top of their page where you can listen via MP3 stream or other digital means.)

And don;t forget to keep hoppin’ with the #CoffinHop all week (24th-31st) for 100 authors and hundreds of prizes, free books, the best in Halloween blogging and one hell of a good time! www.coffinhop.blogspot.com

You too can be the baddest dude in Revere!

#CoffinHop is in full swing, with 100 Master Blasters of Horror swinging for the fences. I am going to endeavor to highlight a few of them in the next 7 days. First up, Senor Rob Mosca, aka “Jack Babylon”, who you can meet and greet at http://jack-babalon.dreamwidth.org/ where he’s giving away an autographed copy of the book. Me? I’m going to give you the low-down on this gonzo tome, then offer up a digital copy of High Midnight and a copy of my story Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy.

High Midnight is the debut novel from Rob Mosca, a vibrant new word artist with a taste for the bizarre and a talent for lean, mean action and Sergio Leone-style setups.

Jumping back and forth between a recent timeline and a near-future post-apocalypse where the world is rife with “walkers”, and the town of Unity, Texas is sitting on a fault-line to hell and overrun with cryptids, supernatural beasts, and the occasional murderous clown.

Keeping the peace in this no-man’s land of lost chances and dying dreams is Laredo Beaumont – ex-trucker, former enmascerado, current aimless drunk – and his Dostoyevsky-reading, knife-throwing, European man-monkey deputy Cicero. Long story short? A pack of clown-faced madmen come looking for the sheriff and death comes to Unity. In between there’s Chihuahua Yetis, Hyenathropes, mad zombie carnage, ghost whores, drinkin’ thinkin’, stinkin’ and a sex scene that is both beautiful and utterly surreal in its strangeness.

Well-written in a gritty style with a mix of the low-down bravado of Bukowski and the jokey cool of Tarantino, filtered through a B-movie lens. This is the Spaghetti Western/Southern Fried Caper/Halloween Monster Mash you never knew you wanted. Get it, read it, pass it along and give Rob Mosca a reason to write another one of these high-concept thrill rides.

Now, to win a digital copy of High Midnight and a copy of my story Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy, go to Rob Mosca’s site “Confessions of a Fuck-up Artist” and report back here in the comments with the name of his soon-to-debut Zombie serial. I’ll pull a name at random and announce the winner tomorrow morning. Then get to hopping at the Official #CoffinHop website and visit some of the 100 amazing horror authors on display this week!

P.S. *Don’t sweat if you don’t see your comment. I’ll keep them hidden until tomorrow morning, so as not to give the game away 😉