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Book Signing in Tucson - Barnes and Nobles Foothills Mall

Jul.01.2010

Book Signing in Tucson - Barnes and Nobles Foothills Mall

Weston Ochse will be signing copies of his brand new paperback novel, EMPIRE OF SALT, teaching zombie line dancing, and discussing the value of nutrition for the undead. Also bring your copies of

THE DEAD THAT WALK
ISBN-13: 9781569757376
ISBN: 1569757372

ON WRITING HORROR
ISBN-13: 9781582974200
ISBN: 1582974209

CHILDREN OF CTHULHU
ISBN-13: 9780345441089
ISBN: 0345441087

SCARECROW GODS
ISBN-13: 9781929653959
ISBN: 1929653956

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PUBLISHED: Feb.16.2012

Blood Ocean

Survivors of the Cull, a Plague that wiped out people without the blood type O-neg, struggle in the floating Sargasso City jigsawed together with ships, submarines, barges and oil tankers off the coast of what was once known as California. Separated by demarcations of turf, ethnicity and fear, it’s not so much living as existing. High above it all swing the Pali Boys: descendants...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.01.2011

Multiplex Fandango

Multiplex Fandango is subtitled "A Weston Ochse Reader" for good reason. This collection contains a comprehensive representation of short fiction and novellas by the Bram Stoker award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee, including his recent powerful Stoker finalist short story, "The Crossing Of Aldo Rey" and his brilliant Stoker finalist novella, Redemption...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.20.2011

Nancy Goats

A young man headlines at Leather Kitty in West Hollywood. He’s on top of the world, discovering more about himself day by day. But on the eve of his greatest success, he is kidnapped, thrown in the trunk of a car and taken to a house somewhere along the California Coast. He’s become the property of Family Pain. His life is no longer his own. All he has left is to somehow...

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PUBLISHED: May.05.2011

Butterfly Winter

Product Description A Bomber crew crash lands in a remote area of China after dropping their bombs on Chinese cities in a terrible future war. The survivors are embraced by a hamlet filled with children, only to learn that doom might have come to claim them all. About the Author: Weston Ochse (pronounced 'Oaks) (1965 - Present) lives in Southern Arizona with his wife,...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.07.2010

Empire of Salt

The Oliver Family must survive the Salton Sea and the zombies that live in its waters.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.18.2008

Redemption Roadshow

Dolan Gibb has driven the same section of Arizona desert highway for years, where crosses and shrines litter the side of the highway like confetti for the dead. He’s passed them thousands of times and never given them a second’s glance. To him, like everyone else, they are places of remembering, places to mourn. But when the Long Cool Woman and El Hombre Quemado (The Burned Man)...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.15.2007

Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way

"Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way is what would happen if Ray Bradbury and Lin Carter got together to write a space opera. Only Weston Ochse could write something like this. In lesser hands, it would fall apart. Weston is one of the best authors of our generation." Brian Keene, author of Ghoul.

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PUBLISHED: Nov.18.2006

On Writing Horror

The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all! In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, Weston Ochse, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories. Edited by the Horror...

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PUBLISHED: May.20.2005

Scarecrow Gods

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award! Scarecrow Gods is the tale of Maxom Phinxs, a black man tortured and disfigured in Vietnam. Maxom, called the Maggot Man by the Tennessee locals, is feared and reviled because of his appearance. Even so, he takes under his wing a troubled young boy named Danny who's fighting incest rumors to repair a shattered family, wondering every day if his...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.03.2009

The Dead That Walk

From an Amazon Review: Personally, though I'm not a zombie fanatic, I enjoyed this book a great deal. Full disclosure, I work for the publisher, but I don't review all our books! Some of my favorites from this anthology: "The Crossing of Aldo Ray" (Weston Ochse), which combines the horrors of zombies with the horror of illegal border crossings! "The Things He Said...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.29.2003

Chidren of Cthulhu

Descend to the depths of primal horror with this chilling collection of original stories drawn from H. P. Lovecraft's shocking, terrifying, and eerily prescient Cthulhu mythos. In twenty-one dark visions, a host of outstanding contemporary writers tap into our innermost fears, with tales set in a misbegotten new world that could have been spawned only by the master of the...

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Feb.01.2012 - 12:09 pm

Blood Ocean Preparedness Plan - TWO WEEKS LEFT

Are you prepared for Blood Ocean? Have you read or reviewed the preparedness plan? Do you now where to buy it? Have you pre-ordered? If you have, then you are ready and you're...

Jun.27.2011 - 1:22 pm

Magnificent Monday - Seal Team 666, Shock Totem and Publishers Weekly

Not all Mondays are created equally. This we know. It's a truism and was probably carved in stone by the first caveman to invent beer, sunscreen and cable TV. I've had my...

May.16.2011 - 8:40 pm

Multiplex Fandango Up for Pre-order

Tomorrow is the BIG Day. Multiplex Fandango is up for pre-order at Dark Regions Press. Some of you may have heard about it, but this is my master work of short fiction. Please...

May.11.2011 - 8:45 am

NIGHTFALLs on Us All

The idea that a prosperous and relatively happy civilization can destroy itself in a single night seems preposterous. That everything as we know it can be destroyed in a single...

Comments from Weston

Feb.23.2011 - 11:59 am

In response to: On Writing Well: A To Do List

Read Better Books

Tina, thanks for sharing your process. A lot of what you do I do as well. Sometimes it's just nice to hear it from...

Feb.23.2011 - 9:49 am

In response to: X-Men vs. The Red Room

Politics and Comics and Buffy

Great article. I love comics. X-men were among the best. I have my boxes in the garage and my stacks in my office,...

Oct.12.2010 - 6:02 pm

In response to: Coming in Second

Thanks

Thanks for reading, Michael. The weaving of Conrad was fun. As was trying to write about two people talking about...

Aug.02.2010 - 7:54 pm

In response to: A really dumb question about format

Format

Not so dumb question. My wife uses Wordperfect (she has 20 published novels - Yvonne Navarro). It's actually a lot more...

Jul.01.2010 - 8:12 am

In response to: Welcome

Grand Canyon

Carole, I recently took a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. You're right, there are some great place names. My...

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Article: You Are Who You Read

Column: The Importance of Being Ernest

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May.26.2011

Multiplex Fandango

Published by Dread Central

"There are names in the field of horror literature that everyone knows. Names like Barker, King, Lovecraft, and Straub are firmly implanted in the collective consciousness and...

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Video: Doctor Doom's Guide to the Universe and the Rules for Burial of Christian Insects

Video: Multiplex Fandango Book Trailer

Video: Zombies Invade Bookstore - Eat Customers!

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I'll be interviewing friend and fellow author Joe R. Lansdale at Phoenix Comicon. I know what I'm going to ask... http://t.co/twcafvhh — 4 hours 33 sec ago

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I'll be interviewing friend and fellow author Joe R. Lansdale at Phoenix Comicon. I know what I'm going to ask him. What would you like to ask him if you had the chance? Let me know and it might make it in.
Introducing THE LOUP GAROU KID --- pre-order it before it goes out of stock. http://www.badmoonbooks.com/product.php?productid=3121&cat=0&page=1
THE LOUP GAROU KID by Weston Ochse (trade paperback edition) :: Science Fiction :: Pre-Orders ::.

Autistic Jimmy Kinder used to speak his own brand of Fred Flintstone language, communicate with space aliens, and influence intergalactic politics. Or at least he thought he did. The doctors said it was autism. Eventually Jimmy got better. He grew up. He left home. He was going to have a normal life...
Gonna be a busy boy this coming weekend. They have me involved in 9 events, including the interview of Joe Lansdale. I'll either be at one of these events, at table 1131 with Yvonne Navarro, or lurking around the comic books. http://phoenixcomicon.com/guests/467x
Phoenix Comicon

Phoenix Comicon, the signature pop culture event of the southwest.

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About Weston

Weston's first story was published when he was seven. The backlash of this first literary effort caused the elementary school to recall their newspaper at the behest of irate parents. One day he hopes to achieve this sort of acclaim again. Since then, he's...

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My favorite books include: The Crossing by Cormac Macarthy,Summer of Night by Dan Simmons,Boy's Life by Robert McCammon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and...

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