Horror Writers Association

Horror Writers Association
New England Chapter

About HWA New England
HWA New England is a regional chapter of the national association for professional horror authors, The Horror Writers Association. HWA New England functions primarily as a networking organization for local authors.

HWA New England is open to all horror authors (novel, short story, poetry) at all experience levels. Our members include full-time, mass market authors with decades of experience as well as unpublished newcomers.

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HWA News & Events - New England Chapter

-- Thursday, May 19, 2005 --

Jon F. Merz - Tons of Updates!!!

Merz has launched VANGUARD PUBLICITY, a new business devoted to author publicity. Vanguard will launch with bestselling author Douglas Clegg as our premiere interviewee.

Merz's website, www.zrem.com, will be defunct in about two weeks, and will be replaced by www.jonfmerz.com. The new site is under construction right now. To help launch, Merz will offer his never-before-published novel VICARIOUS on the site, along with some other cool bells & whistles.

Merz reports that he's seen some of the artwork for the first issue of THE FIXER comic series. "Lawson looks great and I'm incredibly happy to be working with such a talented team of professionals," says Merz. This is the comic that ships free with THE KENSEI special edition. It may well be the only way to get this particular issue, so if you haven't ordered a copy of THE KENSEI, you can still do so by visiting www.maelstrombooks.com and grabbing a copy.

Books 6-8 in the Lawson Vampire series have now been outlined. Book 6 will be called THE RIPPER. Book 7 will be called THE WRAITH and book 8 will be THE HUNTER. "I expect to do a deal for all eight as audiobooks in the Fall," reports Merz.

About a year ago, Merz put together a proposal for a reality TV series called BESTSELLER, in which two teams of midlist authors who haven't "broken out" vie for a chance to win a million dollar publishing deal while criss-crossing the country on a booksigning junket and engaging in challenges. According to Merz, the proposal didn't meet with much enthusiasm then, but then his agent sent Merz a press release about another reality series titled "Book Millionaire." Merz & his agent dove in again and the project is now with the head of the television division at THE FIRM, a blockbuster Los Angeles entertainment company. "Nothing's ever definite until the ink dries on the contract, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed," says Merz. "If nothing else, it helps spread my name a little bit more out in Hollywood."

And last, but not least, DANGER-CLOSE could go into a third printing soon.

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