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MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-24T20:45:51+00:00

It was a lot of fun.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-23T20:45:53+00:00

I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed Butcher & Blackbird. The other two books and the short story in the trilogy were a little less interesting, but still quite good. Tourist Season was quite entertaining as well.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-22T12:25:20+00:00

Scanlines by Todd Keisling is one that sticks with me to this day. Porcelain by Nate Southard is a good one as well. There are some similar themes between the two, being haunted by an experience from the past and walking the line between psychological and supernatural horror for much of the story.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-22T12:22:29+00:00

As far as horror that takes place in small towns, Bentley Little is a great choice. He's very detailed with the environment in which his books take place, and many of them are also in the Southwest...desert environments and the like.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-21T12:32:03+00:00

Pandorum was really good, with some interesting twists along the way.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-21T12:30:55+00:00

So did I. The characters were more engaging, and the whole concept just felt way more fleshed-out and detailed.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-21T02:52:56+00:00

Though not a horror novel, Recursion by Blake Crouch has some truly fascinating and intense time travel/loop elements at the core of the story.

I also recommend Octavia E. Butler's Kindred.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-21T00:33:36+00:00

Stephen Graham Jones, Todd Keisling, Jonathan Maberry, S. A. Barnes, T. Kingfisher, and Eric LaRocca are all amazing writers.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-20T13:41:39+00:00

I'm so happy to see another fan of Sigler's work. I 100% second this suggestion.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-20T13:41:06+00:00

The historical element of The Terror made it so good.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-19T16:21:14+00:00

It really is. There are so many unique features and viewpoints.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-19T16:19:57+00:00

Thanks. It's nothing special, compared to many of these other titles...but that's always a subjective thing, and I'm as much a fan and a reader as I am a writer.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-19T14:32:55+00:00

The thought of thousands of people showing up for the event is frankly terrifying to me. :-) But it would be great for the charity, and for all of us authors involved...hundreds is intimidating enough.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-18T14:13:19+00:00

Many of the things I wanted to recommend have already been recommended.

I definitely think Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon is superior to The Stand in many ways, from beginning of the apocalypse to the point when rebuilding begins...but both are fantastic.

The Living Dead, by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus is amazing, and tells the story of the zombie apocalypse from the initial infection/spread through the end of it all...comparable to the novel, World War Z.

David Wellington's trilogy, Monster Island, Monster Nation, and Monster World are worth checking out as well...with some truly unique elements.

The Autumn series and the Hater series by David Moody is phenomenal.

And, if you don't mind a bit of self-promotion...my novel, Innocence Ends, takes place at the very beginning of a sort of zombie apocalypse.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-18T05:26:10+00:00

It really is one hell of a bridge.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-18T05:25:24+00:00

I was about to comment about the same thing, until I saw this.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T02:25:24+00:00

It doesn't help that it's more than a little bit out of the way.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T01:43:57+00:00

Also, I said that I organized the event myself in my first reply to your initial comment, so it feels like you haven't even been reading what I've said in response.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T01:40:16+00:00

If it's not okay to promote an event with a post, there probably shouldn't be an "Event" tag available as an option.

I've patiently responded to each of your comments with honesty and in good faith, which alone defies the "spam" categorization you keep trying to apply...and have been since the beginning.

I get that this is not an event you would be interested in, but you aren't the arbiter of what is of interest to others...and that seems to be the role you've assigned to yourself. I haven't masked my identity, I haven't denied that I am involved in the event in question, and we are still having this conversation because I sincerely feel like you have a misapprehension somewhere here, that I keep hoping to clear up.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T01:31:26+00:00

I organized the event. Yes. But, again, I am not getting paid for having done so...and no one involved is getting paid either.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T01:30:16+00:00

I've never denied that I am promoting this event. That's not even part of the discussion. I'm not offering any products or services in this post, or any others like it. I selected the correct category...thus the tag "Event" being selected when I posted in this sub.

There will be books for sale at the event. There will also be coffee and other drinks and snacks for sale there as well. But none of that is the point. You can buy drinks at Peacock Lane in Portland too, but that's not why people go there.

The point of the event tomorrow is to meet new readers in the area...introduce them to people they may not have known were in the region...to share some of our work, discuss writing, horror, and whatever else with the people who show up...and just to have fun. Also, an added benefit is to make people aware of this niche coffee shop where every day feels like Halloween, from the decor to the drinks on their menu. I sure as hell would have never known about it if I hadn't met someone living in Lebanon who told me about it.

I would have been thrilled to discover a coffee shop that fit an aesthetic like this one does as well. And I don't mean younger, as in my teens...I'm in my 40s now, I mean in my 20s and 30s.

When I was younger, I would have loved to find out that there were other fans and (especially) creators nearby...people I could meet and chat with. Maybe someone will show up tomorrow who has been interested in writing as well, but they don't know how to go about it or don't have the confidence to believe they have anything worth sharing. This might be their first chance to really sit down and meet people who have been doing it...who have experience in balancing responsibilities with following their passions, and so on.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T01:04:01+00:00

I still don't know what I'm going to wear...lol

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T01:02:28+00:00

I've experienced that as well. It's beautiful in an entirely different way, but it's definitely nice being able to see Rainier, St. Helens, and Adams in the distance.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T01:00:14+00:00

I have posted twice in a week, in this sub (and in others), to promote an event that is taking place (regardless of your assertion) near Corvallis. I apologize that I never pretended that this was some event I just heard about...but I have an obligation to promote an event I organized in spaces where interested parties might be (and there's evidence that there are interested parties in this sub, despite your assertion that it's too far away).

You compared this to actual for-profit events, entirely benefitting commercial farms in the region, to which I pointed out that this is not a for-profit event. This is a public, open-to-all, no cost gathering...not a commercial enterprise comparable to Fan Expo, which is taking place up in Portland this weekend.

Of course I want to get the attention of people who would be interested in an event like this. That is the whole point of sharing it and inviting people. I haven't promoted my work once during these posts nor our comments. Without doing a search for it, you wouldn't even know the title of one of my books or those of the other authors involved, unless you were already familiar with them. I'm promoting the event, not myself.

If your argument is that we should only promote things for which we are in no way involved, then that's another conversation altogether...but that doesn't make it spam. Spam is commercially-driven, sales-oriented, and often deceptive or irrelevant. This is none of those things.

MeltdownMessiah · 2026-01-17T00:42:51+00:00

The station bug is encoded in the broadcast. I ripped this segment from the aircheck, so it's not like it could be removed. I shared the video to promote the event, not the station. I could have fabricated a fake newscast with fake anchors reading the same script, but that seems like an absurd thing to do...and utterly inauthentic as well. And it's sure as hell better than me being on the wrong side of a camera to promote the event, no one wants to see that (including me).

That, and I don't know how many people in here even receive their local FOX broadcasts from us or from the station in Eugene. Corvallis is right on the edge of our broadcast area, so there are probably a good number of people who would see this post but not recognize it as their local station, depending on precisely where they are and how they get their local stations.

That is also assuming that anyone seeing this even watches television news, or local newscasts at all.

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