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Author Christopher Minori will be appearing at the Monsterama Convention in Atlanta, GA on October 7th – 9th, 2016. Minori will be hosting the “Horror in the Flesh” panel, reviewing the history of horror in live theater. The panel will review staged horror plays, starting from the Greeks, through Kabuki and the Grand Guignol, right up to his own musical.

Minori will also be autographing copies of his book, Dirty Little Secrets, and it will be the first place that the studio soundtrack to The Texas Chainsaw Musical! is available for purchase. Tickets to Monsterama can be purchased here.

Texas Chainsaw Musical author Christopher Minori has pre-released his new horror anthology, Dirty Little Secrets. The paperback is being released September 4th, but the book is now available on Amazon Kindle for download. As part of a promotion to celebrate the release, Dirty Little Secrets is free to download from 8/29 – 9/2. Once the promotion has ended, the Kindle version will return to its regular price of $2.99. The book is available for download to Amazon Kindle and Kindle app HERE.

Dirty Little Secrets is also available on KindleUnlimited, for readers who subscribe to that service.

Author Christopher Minori’s new anthology, Dirty Little Secrets, is being released September 4th. But you can get a taste of it now. To celebrate the releae, Minori has published one of its stories, Smoke. And the best part is, it’s absolutely free. All he asks is that you leave a review to tell him what you thought. Smoke follows gambler Tommy Baker. If he’d only been better at it, he wouldn’t have a loan shark about to kill him over five thousand dollars. In desperation, he makes a deal with a strange old man, who offers to give him the money in exchange for Tommy’s cigarette habit. All Tommy has to do is never smoke again. It’s a crazy deal, made by a crazy man. How could Tommy lose?  Smoke is available for free on Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, and Barnes and Noble’s Book Nook.

A release date has been announced for Christopher Minori’s Dirty Little Secrets anthology. It’s scheduled for September 4th, 2016. Initially, it will be available on Amazon with both Kindle and softcover editions, with additional retail availability to be announced later.

Minori has said he plans to pre-release several stories from the book before its September debut.

“I’m going to publish at least two or three stories before the book comes out. Fans of my play, The Texas Chainsaw Musical!, know exactly what they’re getting with my writing. But for people who are new to my work, this is a chance to see what I’m about, discover my writing style, and generally question my life choices. But, if you like the stories, you’re going to love the book.”

The stories will be released on Kindle only, an...

The following contains spoilers. Anyone who has not seen Doctor Who, Season 9, Episode 10, “Face the Raven”, then skip this right now. Or don’t, but be prepared to be spoiled.

In the premiere episode of Capaldi’s Doctor, he said, “I’ve lived for over two thousand years, and not all of them have been good.” In fact, some of them have been down-right tragic. In those two thousand years, The Doctor has had roughly 54 companions (the count varies, depending on who is arguing the point). Of those, five had died before the events of “Face the Raven”. And now we add Clara Osbourne to that list.

To be honest, I’m someone who had grown tired of Clara’s character. I loved her as the Impossible Girl, helping to clear up the Doctor’s timelines of all of his regenerations...

This weekend, I went to Monsterama Con, and got to meet one of my idols, Ricou Browning. Ricou played the Gill-man in 1954’s Creature From the Black Lagoon, 1955’s Revenge of the Creature, and 1956’s Creature Walks Among Us. He is the only actor to have played the gill-man more than once and is the last surviving actor from Universal’s classic monster series. Ricou told me he got the part because he could hold his breath longer than the other actors up for the part. I asked him what it was like to swim with that suit on, and he told me, “It was like swimming in mud.”

Ricou went on to become an underwater director, running the second unit underwater scenes from movies such as Flipper and Caddyshack. What a thrill to meet one of my favorite monsters!

Christopher Minori and Cory Bytof will be appearing on Oct 16th and 17th at Arts After Hours’ Texas Chainsaw production. They’ll be having a Q&A session after each show; Their answers are always informative, often hilarious, and typically on the offensive-side. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, now’s the time to do it. And for the first time in the history of the show, Christopher and Cory will be sitting in the splatter section. Come see them get wet and yucky! Grab tickets HERE.

Got to meet C. Martin Croker at Monsterama! What a terrific animator, voice actor, and nice guy. He’s most well know for playing Zorak, from “Space Ghost, Coast-to-Coast”, but he’s also been in and animated The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Assy McGee and others. We talked for awhile, he, an experienced animator; me, a burgeoning one. By the end, we had really connected. Plus, he sketched these out for me:

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 – Just got the news that Clay passed away two days ago from food poisoning. He was 54 years old. My heart is broken. Not only has the world lost an amazing voice actor and animator, but it also lost a hell of a nice guy. And I lost a friend. RIP, Clay. We’ll miss you!
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I was fortunate enough to meet Michelle Gomez at Timegate (Doctor Who convention). She was awesome in season 8 last year as the Mistress (The latest regeneration of the Master). One thing I don’t understand is how the Mistress got this regeneration from. She had used up all of hers and was forced to steal other Timelords’, but with Gallifrey missing…?

Timegate usually happens in May. Find out more here.

Ralph Bakshi is a personal hero of mine; the grandfather of independant adult-oriented animation. In an interview at Dragoncon in 2011, he makes his premonition of the future for independent animators.

“I think everything (animation) is moving to the internet. Low budget animation will move to the Internet. I think Google, and Youtube, and Netflix will all be paying for their own product. That’s where the future is.”

And he’s right. Four years later and Hulu is producing its cartoon “The Awesomes”. Netflix produced an additional Season of “Clone Wars” and has their exclusive adult cartoon series, “Bojack Horseman”. And Bakshi himself is producing his own independent film, “Last Days of Coney Island”, created entirely on computer. What a great time to be an animator!

Here’s the full inter...