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About Me

The Missing Trailer Contest Winner is...
John Palisano!
Congratulations John! I loved all the entries, but the one that suits that works best as a trailer for The Missing is this one:
Well thought out, thematically related to the novel, artistic, and technically skilled. Thanks, John!I'd considered honorable mentions, but honestly, they were ALL so good that chosing a first place winner was hard enough. I'm still linking to all the entries on my website. Thanks everybody, for participating. You made my month.Watch more trailers here:
Haven's trailer
Ltwicked's trailer
Grog Ziklor's
Thomas Rabe's
Matt's
Emily's
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In the affluent town of Corpus Christi, Lois Larkin's boyfriend Ronnie dumps her for her best friend. In her heartbreak, she takes her third grade class on an ill-advised field trip to Bedford. The children discover something buried in the woods, and a sickness that changes people soon spreads...
More about me...
"Akin to the more ambitious work of Stephen King...this effective debut promises great things to come." -Publishers Weekly
"Deft and disturbing... twists expectations into surreal surprises... hypnotic reading..." -Douglas E. Winter
"Chilling, haunting and so smartly written that the pages fly by like the wind." -Ray Garton
I'm a Brooklyn-based writer. My first novel The Keeper was released in 2006, and was a New York Times' Editor's Choice. My second novel The Missing is out now, from HarperCollins. So far it's gotten a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.
I've got interviews running in the September issues of Fangoria, Rue Morgue, and Writer's Market, and several soon to come in October in November in Dark Scribe and Fearzone.com. I've also got some short stories coming out in the next few issues of Cemetery Dance Magazine, as well as a chapbook called "The Lost," also from Cemetery Dance, and a long piece in the PS Anthology Darkness on the Edge: Stories Inspired by Bruce Springsteen Stories. I'm working on two novellas, a collection of short stories, and my third novel, Audrey's Door.
my website · about the missing · events

My Interests

Environmental toxicology, physiology, old movies, history, ice hockey, learning how stuff works, making grilled cheese sandwiches...

I'd like to meet:

Horror fans, thriller fans, book lovers, YouTubers, films pros, film amateurs, video trailer extraordinaires, funny people, creepy people, everybody!*

*Crazy people still sporting Barry Goldwater bumper stickers not included.

Music:

Springsteen, the Eels, Exploding Head, The Shins, Warren Zevon, Loretta Lynn, Lucinda Williams, Patsy Kline, Nick Cave, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Wilco, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Matthew Sweet, Lisa Germano, Johnny Cash, Flaming Lips, Deltron 3030, David Bowie, Billy Bragg, Beach Boys

Movies:

American Werewolf in London, Anchorman, Back to School, Barfly, Blood Simple, Brazil, Carnival of Souls, The Children's Hour, City of Lost Children, Dark City, Dawn of the Dead, Desk Set, Dorothy Parker Vicious Circle, Elephant Man, Eternal Sunshine Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Finding Neverland, The Fly, Frailty, Ghost World, History of Violence, Happened One Night, Igby Goes Down, The Jerk, Lawrence of Arabia, Moonstruck, My Darling Clementine, My Favorite Year, Night of the Living Dead, Notorious, On the Waterfront, Repulsion, Ring, Royal Tenenbaums, Shining, Soft For Digging, Wild Strawberries

Television:

arrested development · mr. show · the muppets · twilight zone· hitchcock presents

Books:

the grotesque · fahrenheit 451 · haunted · do androids dream of electric sheep · mansfield park · house without doors · the shining · affliction · the golden apples · stranger things happen · father and son · strange pilgrims · macbeth · slaughter-house-five · practical demonkeeping · 100 years of solitude · beloved · our town
and, of course,
the missing · the keeper

Heroes:

People who fix my electrical contraptions (laptops, television, i-pod, lamp) for me, so I don't lose it and go Hulkamania