12/1 - A free story for the holidays. If you know someone who's never read Repairman Jack, this is a great place to start. If you've read LEGACIES, you've read this - but you might want to revisit. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/385070

12/2 - FYI for interested masochists: The full letter-box version of "The Keep" on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMYExzEOmic

12/3 - THE AUTHOR IS THE LAST TO KNOW: no one told me this was on audio. A real change-of-pace novel for me. http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/The-Fi...B00FFGE59Q

12/4 - An amazing, moving video about heroic paternal love during the zombie apocalypse. Well worth 7 minutes of your time: http://vimeo.com/56629974

12/5 - This is what an underwater gunshot looks like. pic.twitter.com/sZQf9umubb

12/8 - Has anyone else seen "Get a Horse" - a new Mickey Mouse cartoon running shown before "Frozen." It's a brilliant mix of 1930s 2D and 21st century 3D that has some genuine laughs.

12/9 - Country acapella. This act blew me away. That's not a Fender bass, THAT'S A GUY'S VOICE! (need a subwoofer for full appreciation) http://www.nbc.com/sing-off/video/home-f...se/n44045/

12/10 - Godzilla trailer. I love the halo drop that opens the clip - beautifully done: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/12/f...r-trailer/

12/10 - sent off copies of A NECESSARY END by Sarah Pinborough and me to Penn & Teller. Why? We dedicated it to them.

12/11 - Interviewed by Terry Ambrose: http://terryambrose.com/2013/12/behind-t...ul-wilson/

12/12 - Heading for NOLA soon for Heather Graham's Writers for New Orleans conference.

12/13 - Another interview - this one bilingual in Italian and English http://wwwwelcometonocturnia.blogspot.it...pleta.html

12/14 - NOLA: lunch at the Redfish Grill with David Morrell, Gregg Hurwitz, Jonathan Maberry, and Laura Morrigan. Delish.

12/14 - A rainy afternoon in NOLA. My room overlooks Royal Street and there's a guy in a doorway four floors below playing blues slide on an electric guitar. As Joni Mitchell would say, Playing Real Good for Free.

12/14 - Why are Jonathan Maberry and I smiling? We're at Erin Rose in NOLA and those are Irish car bombs before us. (the third is for Gregg Hurwitz who took the photo) https://twitter.com/GreggHurwitz/status/...45/photo/1

12/17 - Mmmm. A Cthuken. Tasty! https://twitter.com/damana/status/412528...32/photo/1

12/18 - "The Widow Lindley" remains #1 (for the moment) on the Kindle Worlds: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense list: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dig...e_1_3_last

12/19 - Did my annual "The Christmas Thingy" reading to a 4th grade in Little Silver today. Great audience.

12/20 - Wandered through Gia's neighborhood today - just for the hell of it. http://tinyurl.com/kora2o9

12/20 - Shia LaBeouf: The man without an original thought - This is a riot! Even his apologies are plagiarized. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanzakarin/sh...omic-books

12/21 - Review from a first-time reader. Wow http://zcreed.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/b...aulwilson/

12/22 - I have the best readers. On my tour stop at Dark Delicacies last month I signed a copy of an anthology called HORRORSCOPE. It contained my "Menage a Trois" and I mentioned that I hadn't seen it before. The reader, Monte Christiansen, offered it to me but I refused. Didn't seem right to take a collector's book. Well, yesterday an envelope arrives containing a copy of HORRORSCOPE - Monte had found an extra and sent it. How cool is that?

12/22 - Proofing galleys for the SIBS trade paperback. It's sooo 90s NYC with smoking in restaurants and the Oak Bar at the Plaza and VHS and VH-1. But updating it would be like tinkering with a house of cards. Best to leave it be.

12/24 - now THIS is a Christmas card https://twitter.com/SHQtallahassee/statu...36/photo/1

12/26 - borrowed from Pee-wee Herman (couldn't resist) https://twitter.com/peeweeherman/status/...37/photo/1

12/27 - Love the new cover for SIBS http://tinyurl.com/mzyvtsj

12/28 - for the moment MIDNIGHT SYMPHONY (9 novellas for 99 cents for the next 2 weeks) Includes the original "Midnight Mass" novella: http://tinyurl.com/lqpav9q
12/29 - "Journey to the West" looks so crazy it goes on my must-see list http://www.hulu.com/watch/575270

12/30 - Odd inventions. (I have #8, btw -- super for watching TV in bed.) http://pic.twitter.com.bo/18bh6vj

12/31 - my 2013 publishing scene in review. Not bad. http://www.repairmanjack.com/forum/showt...-in-review

A year of collaborations. If you consider “The Dead World” as a collaboration with Edgar Rice Burroughs and “The Widow Lindley” as a collab with Blake Crouch, then DARK CITY was the only 2013 fiction that was pure me.

NEW FICTION:

THE PROTEUS CURE (a medical thriller with Tracy Carbone) http://tinyurl.com/l4l8mvp

DARK CITY - the second entry in the Repairman Jack Early Years Trilogy
signed limited 1[SUP]st[/SUP] edition from Gauntlet Press www.gauntletpress.com
trade and ebook editions:
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lzn6wk8
B&N: http://tinyurl.com/o9wnavn
Independent: http://tinyurl.com/lj848kk
Overseas Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/ltswzkg (par example)

"The Dead World" - a Pellucidar novelette in WORLDS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (Baen) http://tinyurl.com/pewmyz8

“The Widow Lindley” - a WAYWARD PINES Kindle Worlds novelette http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G2DZEQY

A NECESSARY END (with Sara Pinborough)
Hardcover (sold out)
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HJU903W
Nook: http://tinyurl.com/kbfev3m
Trade paperback in January


REPRINTS:

"Bob Dylan, Troy Jonson, and the Speed Queen" in DARK DISCOVERIES

CALLING DR. DEATH (medical thriller omnibus) - http://tinyurl.com/bjnnw3c

THE COMPLETE LaNAGUE (SF omnibus) - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BH2KO2O

“Anna” in HAUNTINGS

COLD CITY - the mass market paperback of the first novel of the Repairman Jack Early Years Trilogy http://tinyurl.com/l2uvapy

"The Years the Music Died" – in MISTER OCTOBER (Vol. 1)

“Midnight Mass” (the novella) in MIDNIGHT SYMPHONY (ebook only)

Editor: THE HOGBEN CHRONICLES http://borderlandspress.com/hbc.html

The entire Repairman Jack series released in audio for the first time.

The hardcover sold out but the ebook is here:
Kindle US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HJU903W
Kindle UK: http://tinyurl.com/mt68tmw
Nook: http://tinyurl.com/kbfev3m

Thrillerfest - July 9-14
NYC
http://www.thrillerfest.com/

NECon - July 17-20
Rhode Island
http://campnecon.com/

Writers for New Orleans - August 29-31
NOLA
http://www.writersforneworleans.com/#!

World Fantasy Convention - November 6-9
Washington, DC
http://worldfantasy2014.org/

Bouchercon - November 13-16
Long Beach, CA
http://bcon2014.com/

Anyone else see it yet?

I LOVE my dragons......as well as LOTR......so....it was awesome!


I was creeped out by the giants spiders in Mirkwood....but beyond that...I was enthralled.

So this looks interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/FaceOff-Lee-Child/...rd_title_0

Are there plans for other Face Offs in the future, perhaps switching partners? I'd like to see a Jack vs Jack featuring Jack Reacher at some point.

A free story for Christmas. If you've read LEGACIES, you've read this - but you might want to revisit.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/385070

11/1 - after finishing the USO tour in England, I trained down to Brighton from Victoria Station in London for the World Fantasy Convention.

11/3 - Kudos to all involved in running WFC 2013. Well worth the trip. These folks know how to do it right.

11/4 - Back in the USSA... I think. Four time zones over 12 days plus a DST change. But it was all worth it.

11/7 - Folks, when you email me a quote from Plato, is it really necessary to follow his name with "ancient Greek philosopher?"

11/8 - An interesting meditation on young Repairman Jack and Holden Caulfield and other matters... http://fb.me/2vwxbnkgT

11/8 - Rolling Stone describes Lou Reed as "the outsider who changed the course of rock and roll." He always struck me as a talent-challenged poseur supported by a well-connected claque.

11/9 - I bought the Dragon dictating software.

11/10 - "Orphan Black" - finished season 1. Highly recommended. As I've said before, Tatiana Maslany might be the best actress you've never heard of

11/11 - For Veterans Day: A few thoughts on our men and women in uniform: https://www.facebook.com/fpaul.wilson/po...1197146685

11/11 - From the USO tour: an empty chair and table left set in all the dining facilities in case a missing comrade returns: http://tinyurl.com/q7vzf6d

11/12 - amazing story: http://tinyurl.com/ldud3xk

11/13 - I found a decapitated praying mantis in my storage area. I think that means he died happy.

11/13 - I LOVE these. http://tinyurl.com/p4jrv4m

11/14 - Good times in San Diego. Batton Lash and Jackie Estrada took me out to Panda Inn at the Escherlike Horton Plaza

11/15 - No apology necessary. Keep up the good work, al-Qaeda... http://fb.me/2BSuchf4X

11/15 - Okay. Dark Delicacies done. Off to The Poisoned Pen tomorrow

11/16 - Shot a Semmerling at the Scottsdale Gun Club yesterday, courtesy of Steve Goode. Never felt a pistol kick like that. it's HEAVY! I leaned something: as a defensive weapon, it's kinda clunky. Okay, more than kinda - it's VERY clunky. Photos: the .45 Semmerling and me (NB: the slide moves forward) http://tinyurl.com/qg8q59q, plus a ventilated target http://tinyurl.com/nqukntt

11/17 - Hmmm...Baen Books sent me cover flats for THE WORLDS OF ERB anthology. Be nicer if they sent an author copy.

11/18 - ABOUT TIME! The scam artist of the century in jail. (Madoff bilked more money, but Kevin Trudeau has hurt far more people.) The way to know if Trudeau is lying is to watch his lips. If they're moving... http://fb.me/2u94UPGhK

11/19 - it's asking too, too much of me to believe these tattoos are real: http://tinyurl.com/o52hm68

11/20 - woes of the grammar geek: bothered by the line "...whatever happened, babe, to you and I..." in Southside Johnny's "I Don't Wanna Go Home"

11/21 - after all these years and all his commercials, I still haven't seen Papa John blink. Not once.

11/22 - 50 years ago today I remember my mother standing before the TV, dabbing her eyes. I expect the scene was repeated in millions of households across the nation, but she was an Irish Catholic from Massachusetts, so it was a bit more personal for her.

11/24 - a new, even-handed look at Michael Mann adaptation of "The Keep."http://www.nerdist.com/2013/11/schlock-awe-the-keep/

11/25 - saw "Nothing to Hide" off-Broadway last night. Sort of Penn & Teller lite - with cards only. They did a variation on P&T's water-bottle-suspended-over-the-stage trick. Lotsa fun

11/26 – alas . . . http://tinyurl.com/nkqxjp3

11/27 - Those who don't get Dennis Miller's latest tweet will be condemned to repeat: Dear Mr. President...less Neville more Wilt.

11/28 - Now THIS is creepy... http://tinyurl.com/o23o9mx

11/29 - nice review of THE PROTEUS CURE by in the venerable Mystery Scene Magazine http://tinyurl.com/o2o9mkf

I see “The Twins” referenced a few times. What novel do they make their appearance?

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in America and to FPW readers everywhere