Rue Morgue’s Rodrigo Gudino Interview: Part 2 now live in the FearZone morgue
Current mood: energetic
Category: Writing and Poetry

From FearZone:  EDITOR’S NOTE: Yesterday, Richard Hipson queried Rodrigo Gudino about the multi-media empire he’s developed around Rue Morgue magazine. Now these gentlemen discuss in detail Rodrigo’s second short film, THE DEMONOLOGY OF DESIRE, which he screens today at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival’s Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Day." And in a strange twist of fate, Rodrigo turns the tables on Richard and asks him a question or two.

Check it out here: INTERVIEW PART 2 

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Interview with Rue Morgue publisher, Rodrigo Gudino
Current mood: determined
Category: Writing and Poetry

Hey guys, been a while since I’ve blogged, but what else is new, eh? 

Hope everyone enjoyed their previous long weekend, I know I sure did.  Was good to get away with Erin and her family to Niagara Falls where we spent a couple of days getting wet and wild in the waterpark and taking in some other fun times which the area had to offer.  Refreshed and revived, it’s back to crunch time this week as I get back to lots of writing and other productive business.

And as for the writing, FearZone.com has recently published part one of a three part interview in which Rue Morgue publisher, Rodrigo Gudino, was kind enough to spend some quality time on the phone with your’s truly to discuss his work in film and publishing.  Check it out as we get to talking about how Rue Morgue Magazine ticks as it does, what it takes to succeed in publishing horror in today’s roller coaster market as well as plenty of other stuff fans of horror in culture and entertainment should find entertaining and informative.

Part two goes live Thursday, part three on Friday.

Hope you enjoy it and do drop a line in the comments section at the bottom of THE INTERVIEW and tell us what you think.

Cheers n’ chills,

Rick

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FearZone presents: Steve Wedel’s The Werewolf Saga
Current mood: semi-caffinated
Category: semi-caffinated Writing and Poetry

I hope you check out this indepth article I wrote up for FearZone regarding Steve Wedel's excellent ongoing Saga of Werewolves: 

And better yet, do yourself a favour and check out his website and order a copy of the books for your own personal consumption.  You'll thank yourself later. 

Also, by clicking the HOME tab of FearZone once you've read the Saga article, you can get redirected to an inteview that Steve was kind enough to grant me.  Or you can go directly to it from here.

Currently listening to:  Random techno tunes from the Ipod
Currently Reading:   Filth Kiss by C.J. Lines
Currently writing: A bunch-a book reviews and interview transcriptions

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Git yer Dirty Crow Radio show right here
Current mood: excited
Category: Writing and Poetry

If you're at all like me and you like your villains sleazy, cruel and downright fun and vengeful, then chances are you've already sought out and read Brian Knight's 1200AM LIVE, the mean little book from Insidious Publications.  What's that?  You haven't ordered or yet read this newest offering of sick and twisted proportions?  Oh.  This is where we enjoy some awkward silence and I search for a polite way to ask why the fuck not.  If only you klnew, you'd know that you are most sorely missing out.  But not to worry -  there is a remedy and you can start it HERE and check out an excerpt from 1200AM LIVE right now. 

Disappointed and bitter that you can't read the rest of it until you get your own copy of it from HERE and nab it from Insidious Publication's stack of demons, you can always dig into the mind of one of the men inside the grey matter of this determined rise to rule publication company.  Here what co-IP guy Chris Hedges has to say about the strange noises coming from his basement in Texas by clicking HERE for the interview on fear zone.  And if you missed the interview between the author, Brian Knight, no worries 'cus I've got your back on that one too and have put a link HERE just for you.

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Fear Zone Exclusive: Tuesday Terrors
Current mood: awake

How's this for getting the dirt on all the things you fear and love?

FEAR ZONE RADIO

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Brian Knight joins me in the zone for a truck stop quickie
Current mood: sleepy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Ever wonder what goes on in Brian Knight's mind in the event when his alter ego takes over?  Turn out the lights, lock the doors and windows, and come step closer to what Brian has to say about his latest offering by Insidious Publications:  1200AM LIVE

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Dark Recesses Press - Have you got it in you?
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Writing and Poetry

The moment your eager eyes have been waiting for!

Fresh from the evil press comes a darkness that will possess you and entertain your most wicked thoughts and dreams.  For the past two years Dark Recesses Press has been feeding your inner monsters and fattening them up for the time when they can be released upon the physical world to play and live within the printed playground shared by others like you.  Those with a knack for exploring the underworld of their desires, unite and beware!  DRP 's premiere print issue is officially unleashed to serve you in this world and the one where we dare to tread, that place where twisting shadows laugh and sing to you from the darkest recesses of your mind.  You know you want to join them for the games they play so go ahead and bring DRP into your living world where things will never be the same again.  And why should they?  It's so much more fun playing it our way, though we don't always play fair.

Between the premier issue's gorgeous covers you will find 54 pages packed with all the quality you've come to expect from Dark Recesses Press.

This issue contains 6 pieces of dark fiction - each accompanied by artwork, PLUS our Deja Vu Horror Contest winner.

There's an interview with Brian Keene and another with
co-producer of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (by your's truly), two book reviews including John Everson's NEEDLES & SINS, a movie review of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (also by your's truly) and Part 1 of an in depth article on Waverly Sanitarium.

Did I mention that the back cover just so happens to give host to a full bleed, full colour movie poster of JACK KETCHUM'S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR?  If you're wondering why this socaily significant film has garnered more controversy and debate than any other film in a long time, then this is the place to start finding out why.

See you on the other side!

To order:  Dark Recesses Press Magazine

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Been a long time since I blogged n’ rolled
Current mood: awake
Category: Life

Log-in name still functional - check!
Layer of dust relatively cleared - check!
Fresh coffee, brewed and foamed to perfection - check!

Yup, I'm good to go.

Been a long time since I got up and blogged.  I'd like to blame life for that, but really who am I kidding?  Lazy, procrastinating, busy, distracted?  Guilty of all to the fullest degree.  Some more than others.  Been a wacky last few months for sure, but hey now I've got "direction!"  Day job-wise, I've been in need of some major retooling for quite some time.  Being the kinda guy who needs to love what he's doing, who must have fun most of the time, it's been a struggle for at least the past three or four years to find something that doesn't result in depressing the shit out of me for feeling trapped in a place I'd rather not be.  But bills gotta be paid and the lady's gotta have some of the nice things she deserves so I've always fought to stick it out, to see where it goes, to see if maybe once I rise up in ranks the job'll get much more fun and rewarding.  I've been a phone - AKA customer service guy/telesales guy/lead gen guy AKA the guy on the other end of the phone when you're trying to eat, relax, screw, or otherwise avoid annoying interruptions - for about the past 6 or 7 years or so.  The problem is I'm quite good at it and have enjoyed plenty of success through the years and, as a result, have usually made a decent income of it.  But the job its self?  Fucking hate the shit.  Used to love it but love don't live there anymore.  I always wanted something more; a way to feel just a bit more "fulfilled" and less monotonous (which, as it turns out, is a state positioning that depresses the crap out of me after so long. (Damn you short attention span!) 

Anywho, I recently took on a day job role in retail sales as a floor associate in a Best Buy store near me.  They wanted me to sell computers, which in its self is kinda funny if only you knew what I know about computers - software, yes, hardware/techie stuff, not so much.  It was a seasonal position, but I wanted to try something new.  It was time for an evolution of sorts.  I needed some discovery in my life and a better place to earn a surviving.  So, I jumped in head and feet together and learned as I went.  Long story short, I friggin' loved this new job.  It was a wonderful thing to actually see the people I'm dealing with.  To be able to see their expressions, talk to their whole family, spend time helping them not through some mechanical phone-thing, but by the old fashion eye to eye, person to person method in which I could actually shake there hands afterwards and maybe even help them again someday.  Doesn't sound like much I'm sure, but it was a blast and it showed me a better way of doing things, of paying the bills, and taught me what I need to do day job-wise to not go insane from the bottomless rut I've dolling out to myself for too damn long.  Sadly, the seasonal gig ended, but from it I've taken a ton of great experience, an excellent reference and, most importantly, a new direction and the discovery of realizing there is in fact a type of day job that I can be happy living with until I either win the lottery or write a few best selling books, which may or may not be the same thing, I dunno.  Either way, thank god I didn't listen to the inner voice that asked me what the fuck I was thinking, thinking I could sell somebody an expensive machine I knew relatively little about in a face to face environment I was relatively unaccustomed to.  Yup, pat on the back to me for telling the voice to go suck balls in hell and taking a chance beyond the clutches of my inner fears and trepidations because now I know.

Funny how finding a fair share of happiness and gratitude can make such an impact.  Suffice it to say that it was getting rather frustrating and becoming quite the never-ending let down to always trying to find the frame of mind and time to do the writing I love so much when there was always that one thing eating and kicking away at the back of my brain and screaming at me to address this thing.  Quite the disrupt I tells ya.  Even though I'm now banging the dirt roads for a new job, I'm pretty sure I'll find something quick.  Already have some interviews lined up, but most exciting for me is knowing that whatever new day job I land, landing one in my newly discovered preferred environment is going to make all the difference.  And it has already as I've probably written more in the past couple of weeks than I have in a long time.  I've been reading a tong of fantastic new books from some kick ass writers and have been able to interview many of them with many more slated for the not so distant future.  More on that later, but not too much later, I promise.

Okay, coffee buzz dwindling so I'll just leave you with a poem.  It's one I wrote my girlfriend for fun  while ago.  I got her to tell me four things she loves and with those things - Godiva(chocolate), puppies, summer, and sunflowers - I came up with the following.   A lot of it still rings pretty true I think.

Upon a midnight summer's breeze,

Whispers chance and sorrow's dream.

      A moon lit path to guide your way,

Through sunflower fields of golden days.

      Like Lady Godiva on a horse,

Stripped and true you stay your course,

      And beneath the scattered falling stars,

You trace through time and faded scars.

      A darkness closing at your heel,

Its rainbow promise you can feel.

      A residual of your shadow's grind,

It's only life that trails behind.

      Then like a newborn puppy's scent,

Soft and pure and innocent,

      You take flight high through summer's sky

Surfin' on a lover's high.

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Fear Zone reviews THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Sorry to make this so short.  Holliday chaos is upon me and time is scarcer than ever.  Here's a review I did for FearZone.com that I thought you guys might enjoy checking out.

With working more hours over the hollidays than usual, putting the gears back into motion well enough to write an actual article on THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, interviewing the very dark and talented Steve Wedel among several reviews and other things I'm probably forgetting about, it's looking to be a busy finale' to another year.  Next year's looking to be an even busier one and I can't wait to dig into it.

Enjoy the review, and go check out the movie.  THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

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Fear Zone exclusive: Part 3 of Phil Nutman
Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry

As part of our discussion with Phil Nutman, co-writer of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR screenplay and award winning author of Wet Work, Part 3 of 4 is now live and exclusive on FearZone.com

In our third and second to last segment of Fear Zone's Phil Nutman Chronicles, Phil goes public for the first time about his spirituality and the role it plays on his fiction writing and life.  Join us as we also talk about the hard lessons of a veteran genre journalist from the man responsible for introducing Clive Barker to Fangoria and the rest of the American world.

Phil Nutman: Exclusive on FearZone

Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by.

Currently listening : Ten By Pearl Jam Release date: 27 August, 1991

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