Sep 14 2011

Author Dan Keohane’s Experience at the Hebron Harvest Fair

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Author Dan Keohane’s (Margaret’s Ark) write-up of his time at the Hebron Harvest Fair:

“I had an amazing time on Thursday night and Friday at the fair, working the NEHW table. Thursday might have been damp and raining, but lots of people came out, more so on sunny Friday. The pre-advertising paid off, as a number of folks searched us out. The concept of an organization of New England writers, though not foreign to all of us, was a new concept for many and we had a lot of great discussions on the topic, and showing folks the wide variety of styles, from novels to story anthologies to comics. One major and effective tool were photocopies of Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s short stories, which Stacey Longo handed out to people passing by. We even had someone come back looking for her to tell her how much she loved the story. Writers: think of this next time (I will for sure), it was a great giveaway item! Again, special thanks to Jason Harris and Stacey Longo for opening their home to us all, and for working tirelessly even weeks beforehand to make this an extremely enjoyable time for everyone.

Sep 13 2011

Pictures from the Hebron Harvest Fair

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The raffle prize at the Hebron Harvest Fair

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Author Dan Keohane sitting outside the NEHW booth at the fair

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One of the tables Inside the NEHW booth

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Fairgoers looking at It’s OK to be a Zombie and Shroud magazine at the NEHW booth

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Authors Kurt Newton and Stacey Longo

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A NEHW t-shirt hanging above the raffle prize

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Newton meditating below the NEHW banner

Sep 12 2011

Pictures of Hebron Harvest Fair Raffle Winner Alec Wallman

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Alec Wallman holding a signed copy of Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars.

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Wallman smiling about winning the raffle.

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Wallman posing with one of his prize possessions on his new bookcase

Wallman, of Marlborough, CT., who turns nine on September 13, is a big fan of Stephen King. He is currently reading King’s It. He loves reading horror and watching horror movies, he said. He will grow up to be a horror writer or a make-up artist, his mom, Sheena said. He dressed up as the Cryptkeeper from Tales from the Crypt last Halloween and did his own make-up, his mom said. This year he will be dressing up as the Leprechaun from the 1993 movie Leprechaun.

Sep 12 2011

The Winner of the Raffle

The winner of the raffle of the signed Stephen King novel, Full Dark, No Stars, 33 other novels some of which were signed limited editions, and the bookcase is Alec Wallman of Marlborough, Connecticut.

I wanted to thank our generous donors, AIO Publishing (www.aiopublishing.com), Borderland Press (www.borderlandspress.com), Tracy Carbone, Creative Guy Publishing (www.creativeguypublishing.com), Delirium Books (www.deliriumbooks.com), Earthling Publishing (www.earthlingpub.com), Scott Goudsward, Knopf Publishing (knopfdoubleday.com), Nightshade Books (www.nightshadebooks.com) and Prime Books (www.prime-books.com) for making the raffle at the NEHW booth at the Hebron Harvest Fair a success.

I want to thank Stacey Longo, Kurt Newton, Dan Keohane, Danny Evarts, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, Nathan Schoonover, Raven Starr, K. Allen Wood, Greg X. Graves, Nathan Wrann, Ron Winter, Scott Goudsward, Dan Foley, and Jennifer Yarter-Polmatier for appearing at the booth and all the people who visited us during the four days of the fair.

There will be more entries coming with pictures and links about the fair in the next couple of days.

Sep 11 2011

The Final Day of the Fair

The booth has been set up and author Stacey Longo is talking with Michael, the newest person promoting the Hartford Courant next door, while he browses the books to see if he can use them in an English class.

Today, the booth will be hosting authors Longo, Kurt Newton, Nathan Wrann, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, Jennifer Yarter-Polmatier, and ghost hunter Nathan Schoonover. The fair opens at 9 a.m. and closes this evening at 8 p.m. Come on by and meet some interesting people. You won’t regret it.

It has been a lot of fun having a booth at the Hebron Harvest Fair. I have only gone though a few of Longo’s stress balls promoting her website, www.staceylongo.com. Who knew you could squeeze a stress ball to the point where it has become ineffective.

Sep 10 2011

Live Blogging from the Hebron Harvest Fair

The third day is going well. The authors haven’t risen up with their pens to kill me because of my anal retentiveness or controlling personality.

The books are selling, the authors are happy even in the sun, and the NEHW t-shirts are selling well.

I have to thank the Hartford Courant people who allowed us to use their booth since we had so many authors at our booth. They allowed us to hang out and just relax while other authors were talking with horror fans. If you ever need the Courant and you live in Connecticut, you can’t go wrong with calling Ray Tedeschi at 860-758-7799 or Edward Carella at 860-232-7272 to sign-up for home delivery. Our authors even picked up some pointers from Jeff Sobiech on getting the NEHW name out there. So if you live in the state and you are visiting a fair, go visit the Hartford Courant booth. I would tell you to go talk to Jeff, but if he is running the booth he will come out to talk to you even before you get to his booth. He is an interesting man and it was great talking to him.

It is time to go eat some more fair food. While I am gone, please read the entries from the last couple of days. There is some interesting information within these entries.

Sep 10 2011

The Second Day at the Hebron Harvest Fair

The second day at the fair was even more successful than the first. A number of books were sold. The authors were meeting a lot of people and having fun. One thing I found out that Kristi Petersen Schoonover, author of Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole, is a marketing genius. She was giving out copies of stories and this was drawing fairgoers to the booth. One recipient of a story came back to tell her thank you and that she enjoyed the story. Schoonover had other ideas too and I plan to use them in the future for other NEHW events. The NEHW will be making more appearances in Connecticut and in New England.

Sep 9 2011

First Day at the Hebron Harvest Fair and other upcoming posts

20110909-024649.jpgThe first day of the Hebron Harvest Fair and the NEHW booth received some visitors. Authors Dan Keohane, Stacey Longo, and Kurt Newton met a number of people and had some great conversations. If you are one of the people who stopped by the booth, thank you for visiting.

A number of fairgoers entered the raffle worth over $1,000. If I wasn’t the one running the raffle, I would love to enter and win. A raffle with 42 books including a many signed books including a Stephen King novel. A number of the books are also limited editions. I want to thank some our members Tracy Carbone, Scott , and Longo who donated books. I also would like to thank Chaosium, Inc., Prime Books, Nightshade Books, Borderlands Press, Delirium Books, and Knopf Publicity for their donations. All these people and companies made this raffle what it is today.

It was fun seeing the people from Zombee Bob again. NEHW met them at the Enfield Zombie walk in August. This is there second event just like it is ours. Check out the Zombee Bob site, www.zombeebob.com.

In the upcoming weeks and months, NEHW will be at Rock and Shock in Worcester and Anthocon in New Hampshire. There will be entries on the these events before and after the events.

The first NEHW anthology will be released at Anthocon in November. There will be more news coming in the future.

The September edition of the newsletter will be coming soon.

Don’t forget to read the previous entry about Necon E-Books.

Sep 8 2011

Necon E-books Revamps Website

Necon E-books revamped website debuts Friday. The largest and most exciting addition of the new site will be the Live Blog. The goal for the blog is to inspire and engender online conversation about all things related to horror literature. The company also wants to create those aspects in what it does in publishing, e-books, book reviews, author appreciations, etc.

Bob Booth, founder of Necon E-books, has already started a regular feature for the site called “Bob’s Table at Café Necon,” his own personal book review column written in the manner of a discussion around “his” table at the Necon convention. For more information about Necon, check out the website, www.campnecon.com.

The blog will contain a number of posts about writers or titles published by the company, but won’t be exclusively about them. Booth’s first review is of a novel
by an author the company has not had the pleasure of publishing. The blog will be about the entire genre. The company sees this as an opportunity for everyone to promote, celebrate, and hopefully thereby grow the field of horror.

The blog will only feature positive commentary about specific writers or novels. They would rather spend their time (and online column inches) showcasing talent and works they like rather than criticizing those they don’t. They may write something critical about an overall theme or trope in the genre which they are unhappy about, or be professionally critical of trends within the publishing industry, which they may not agree with, but they will never use the blog to make any personal attacks.
“In short, you have our word that if you see your name on our blog, you’re going to like what you read next.”

Check out the revamped website, www.neconebooks.com.

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Sep 7 2011

Paranormal Investigator at Hebron Harvest Fair

Paranormal investigator Nathan Schoonover, host of A&E’s Extreme Paranormal and one half of the Ghostman & Demonhunter radio show (http://www.ghostanddemon.com/) will be appearing at the New England Horror Writers’ organization’s booth at the Hebron Harvest Fair this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Watch Schoonover’s bio on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZD_dHu5CcE) and check out his website http://nathanschoonover.com/.