Me too!

I must finish this book this upcoming week. I'm about 200 pages in and just haven't had the time to knock out the rest.

Good luck! )

I'm not sore, I just find there to be a lot of hot air on these message boards.

Sure you can make a movie "cheap."  I made NAKED FEAR for $7,000.  Justin Channell made DIE AND LET LIVE for $1,000 and I liked that.   Budget doesn't dictate quality. I  just happen to have written a very BIG script that I want to make which cannot be made in that range.  But since you know so much, keep talking shit.  And write your own damn book--or tell me how I should do that too.

I get a real kick out of someone telling me how easy it is to make a movie on digital--I just wrote an entire fucking book on the subject!  It takes the same amount of time to write, direct, anct, create special effects and score a movie regardless of what format you shoot in, and video actually takes longer to light because it's so volatile.  If you want something to look good, you hire a professional crew, not some stoned high school dropouts. That's why most digital films are CRAP.  We're going to shoot on digital, we're going to do it right, and it's going to cost at least $100,000.

My days of including free nude shots to sell a small press book are over.  Now that I'm with a bigger publisher, they cost $2 and a SASE.

Thanks, man.  The artists did all the work, including the lettering.  Kelly Forbes , who did the church scene, is a Canadian artist I got off the Rue Morgue message board; Martin Blanco, who did the embalming scene, works out of Argentinia and Spain.   I was real lucky to find both of them.

There are two comic book adaptations of two chapters of the book on my website, that's a lot more unique than posting sample pages.  The comics won Best Comic Book at the NYC Horror Film Festival last year.  I've been talking about this book here for two years, if people aren't interested I'm not going to cry about it.   The book msut be selling well, since Medallion is publishing PERSONAL DEMONS next year and just bought my next book, THE FRENZY WAY.

Although, I'm not much of a reader, and I haven't read a book since Fahrenheit 451 freshman year, if a a copy of this were in the store I'd definitely buy it. Greg, your book sounds very fucking cool!

That's encouraging, but I'm pretty sure it IS in the store.

Thanks...

Hey, Larry--who's selling those free tattoos?  You oughta commit violence against 'em!

Of course I got free copies, my publisher loves me.  I gave them away to friends and family who spent $45 on the Limited Edition hardcover.  I'm supposed to give it away to other people, too?  Shit, it's only a project I've been working on for 25 years, and I only spent $1,000 on artwork for the LE and $3,000 on the music video, and I've only been without a regular job for 2.5 years to make it as a writer, and I only have a kid to feed.  Gimme, gimme, gimme. 

I'm gonna be honest, and you're gonna love it. I couldn't finish this movie. It just didn't keep me interested. nothing wrong in genneral, i just, dunno, didn't like it i guess. sorry but i'm sure you've had a shitload worse negative review thingies.

Actually, I've gotten a lot of good reviews for SLIME CITY, not that good reviews mean anything. And I'm sure there are a lot of 21-year-olds out there who can raise $50,000, spend 2 years of their lives working on a labor of love, get it a five-week run as a midnight movie in NYC, see it released on VHS twice and sold to 8 other countries, and have new fans discovering it 20 years later; they just don't bother because of the other shi they have to put up with.  Me, I'mjsut glad it's still around and appreciated by people who are able to overlook its flaws.

What the hell ever happened to this book?  I guess the original publishers ran into trouble, went out of business, or jsut couldn't deliver.  I thought it was dead, but then Vince Liaguno's Dark Scribe Press piced it up, retitled it "Butcher" something or other, and is refocusing it somewhat.  The good news is that both of my essays "made the cut."  The better news is that I'm getting paid for both of them (the previous publisher wasn't paying anything, and they STILL couldn't get it off the ground).  The shitty news is it won't be out for  ayear and a half.  Not that any of you give a shit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZldaCUz59M

--to separate the men from the boys and the bitches from the ho's.  Or something like that.

Both of my new books , representing two and a half years of my life, are NOW AVAILABLE.

The Trade Paperback of JOHNNY GRUESOME isn't supposed to be out until October 1st, but plenty of bookstores are already displaying it, and Amazon (selling it for $10.85, $5.00 off its $15.99 cover price) is down to ONE COPY of its initial order.  Who's gonna buy that fucker so I can say I'm sold out on Amazon?

http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Gruesome-Gregory-Lamberson/dp/1934755451/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222210261&sr=1-1

CHEAP SCARES! LOW BUDGET HORROR FILMMAKERS SHARE THEIR SECRETS is at the printers now, and should ship the same time JOHNNY is officially tearing up bookstores.  You can get it directly from the publisher--

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3706-1

--or get it from Amazon (no discount, but free shipping):

http://www.amazon.com/CHEAP-SCARES-Budget-Filmmakers-Secrets/dp/0786437065/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222210960&sr=1-1

There you go.  Perfect for Halloween.  Perfect for Thanksgiving.  Perfect for Christmas.  Perfect for now.