PRINTERS ROW JUNE 2016

I didn't have anything to sell, but I do try to run into as many people as I can with businesses cards people can use as bookmarks. This year I ran into Mark K. Braun, who has put a great deal of work into formatting the upcoming RAPID TRANSIT: 30 years of short fiction by Crossroad Press. He introduced me to Laura Enright, author of TO TOUCH THE SUN. I also ran into Jay Bonansinga and Jill Norton. Took me awhile to get the photos onto my computer.

THE BEST BOOK SIGNED TO ME AND THE BEST COVER BLURB by JAY BONANSINGA

Jay Bonansinga and I have been friends for twenty years, going back to his first novel, THE BLACK MARIAH. He is currently writing the THE WALKING DEAD novels (co-written by Robert Kirkman) and is knocking it out of the park, as they say. Before I show you the photo of the book Jay signed, let me put up the quote, which pertains to my novella FOR YOU, THE LIVING.

“Chicago has its share of treasures – deep dish, the Bean, Kingston’s blues, and Wayne Allen Sallee.  Toiling in the stubborn vineyard of short fiction for most of his career, Sallee reaches a sort of a literary apogee with his brilliant and brutal horror novella “For You, The Living.”  Ostensibly a plague tale, told in classic Lovecraftian diary form, Sallee’s yarn manages to deftly mingle the deeply personal with the gruesomely Grand Guignol.  Riveting, ghastly, hilarious, creepy, and unforgettably Wayne-like, “For You, the Living” is at once a wholly original take on the zombie apocalypse genre while at the same time a heart-wrenching love story.  This one will haunt you forever, folks.  Highest recommendation!”
- Jay Bonansinga, national bestselling author of THE WALKING DEAD: RISE OF THE GOVERNOR and THE WALKING DEAD: THE ROAD TO WOODBURY

 How can you not beat that? Maybe with the book and the signature, ha ha.

ALL-AMERICAN HORROR OF THE 21st CENTURY: THE FIRST DECADE

Thanks for the patience any repeat visitors to my website had while there was radio silence from this end. My father had two brain surgeries and was hospitalized for 51 days. He's missing part of his skull. I'm going to try posting regularly now that he is home and in stable condition.

Mort Castle accepted a story of mine, "High Moon", to be reprinted in a Best of... anthology, published by Wicker Park Press. (I just noticed the repeats in photos, my apologies. It was great to be included in the book, alongside other brilliant writers like Jay Bonansinga. I'm saddened that Walter White never had a chance to read any of the stories.

City Lit in Logan Square

So Mort Castle edited the book and the readers were Jay Bonansinga (pictured here with his lovely wife Jill Brazel), John Everson, Sam Weller, and Jeff Jacobson. Eric Miller, the guy who published the book for Wicker Park Press was there, but both here and on FB the photo is coming up with some weird code where it won't upload. Finally, though, the photos. UPDATE: Eric's photo mysteriously loaded this time.