Dropping Payload… HorrorRealmCon Guest Report… Chiller Theatre

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I’ll keep it short and sweet. Pittsburgh’s Horror Realm Con invited me to their Spring Break Massacre. I’ll post some pictures at the end of the blog and sum the experience up with one word: HOLYSHITWASTHATAFUNTIMEANDTHEPEOPLETHEREWERESOTALENETEDITBLEWMEAWAY

Well, it’s a word…

I found out that the horror community is one of the coolest group of folks that ever lived. MURDER RED INK is the first thing I’ve done in the scary book category and I was new to the floor. Now, after having attended and being in the presence of greatness… I’m humbled, honored, and grateful for the invitation.

I won’t name drop but I have special thanks for Felissa, Tiffany, Derek, Sean, John, George, Cheryl, Paul, Angela, Stacie, Chey, Larry, Bob, Macabre, Russ, Tony, Rose, Mike, Tom, Dan, Z.Santa, The HRC organizers, Angela’s Mom, ToeTag, TSPress for forcing me to go, Dawn, my table workers and fans, McGhee’s Maniacs that provided some pics to me, the Jagoffs, and ANYONE that was nice (you know who ya’ll are).

I’m a karma guy. I believe in good. What comes around goes around.

Dropping Payload is a story that is slated to be published and appear in the March 12, 2015 Issue of Perihelion Magazine. Scifi readers will find it free. I’ve been reading it for two months now. Excellent magazine.

And one last thought (again not naming names), F-U to my TV content provider for taking away my beloved “It’s Alive Show.” It’s a small world and somehow I was lucky enough to hang out for a few minutes with Hellga (a pic below’s been photo-shopped so that I’m smiling, because I’m a frownie sometimes) and Doug from the show. Though I haven’t been able to watch it on Saturday nights for years now, I retain my passion for this local Pittsburgh chiller theatre. I still listen to “Me Love” and “Make Way” by Deathmobile to “get into the horror mood” sometimes.

That’s all I got. Enjoy the pics from Pittsburgh. And for a bit more, I posted a video on instagram too. It let’s you see what the world thinks of writers FOR REAL. I didn’t even pretend to think I did anything worth while and still got kung-fu’d.

And I apologize, I didn’t get enough pictures because Pittsburgh kept us rocking!

PS.  “M is for Matchmaker” on you tube. Watch this 3 minute gem with some of my favorite people. Not for the squeamish but DEFINITELY for the screamish!

“They’re Dead. They’re all messed up!” The Sheriff from Night of the Living Dead, George Kosana

Hellga from It’s Alive and my photoshopped smile

The Great John Russo

The end of the con. I was fortunate and didn’t have much to tear down.

The amazing @DerekMears , hanging at Horror Realm Con Pittsburgh. 5-6-15

Mord… You’re a GAMER? FRICKIN’ GAMER?!?

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Authors, Award winning, books, Bookworms, GAMER, horror, Lord of the Rings, LOTRO, MMO, MMORPG, online video games, scifi, terror, The Secret World

Yes.

It may not be what you think it means. Gamer is a very loose generalization. What I am is an active player of two online MMORPG’s. That stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. To hit a related point early…

…NO I DO NOT FICTIONALIZE ROLEPLAYING GAMES.

There are plenty of folks out there that do that type of writing in quality ways. I don’t. Have I used dice and played rpgs in the past? Yes. Although, to be truthful I was almost always the master of the game and came with a briefcase of my own material adapted to someone else’s rules. (We’re also talking about a couple of decades in the past).

What I DO write is captured nicely in a new comment given to me by TSPRess:

This is us. This is YOUR world. This is OUR FUTURE. He is Mord McGhee. READ and experience.

That’s pretty cool to me. It hits the mark because I like to think I envision changes that will come and let the people in the scene tell the story. SO…. what do I mean when I have admitted to being a Gamer?

I play Lord of the Rings Online (Currently on the Landroval and Arkenstone Servers) and I play The Secret World (On all three servers that I know about).

I don’t broadcast toons (the characters), nor do I  sell books there. I play because I love the games. I love the communities. I love the worlds. If you run into me and figure it out that’s cool. I have a bunch of great friends, many of which are in the LOTRO pic above. In the past I’ve been active on the original Guild Wars and on Meridian59 (arguably the first MMO and still ground-breaking in  the mid 90s). I am always up for giving them props to immersive and fun environments but I’ll leave the “worlds” they use to J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft.

For me, I’ve promised to eliminate “Scooby-do” villains and moments and provide realistic visions of scifi terror and fantasy that damned well could be on our horizon.

It is NOT dystopian to think history will repeat itself.

After all it is OUR FUTURE.

I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo. What the Hell am I doin’ here?

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Yes, that is a chorus from the song Creep by Radiohead. Why?
First off…. MORDMCGHEE.COM is up and running.
Now, this is why.
There was a commercial made where I performed the song in a Jack the Ripper costume as man + acoustic guitar…
IT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY.
I didn’t like the finished product and the ad was cancelled.
What’s the point?
Well… I guess there is no real point.
I’m that kinda dude.
So I am going to just convey how relieved I am to finish my new book “MURDER RED INK.”
It’s a good book. That’s what they tell me.
Here’s the blurb from a world reknowned scifi best-selling author:
“Intense, graphic, and provocative. The psychological thriller has a new voice and it is MORD MCGHEE.”
–STEVE ALTEN, NYTimes best-selling author of MEG & THE LOCH
Great, right? So what’s up, Mord?
IT WAS A GRUELING EXPLORATION INTO A REAL LIFE MONSTER AND A TIME THAT WAS AWFUL, ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN.
That being said, I stand by my motto:
“It’s not dystopia to think that history will repeat itself.”
I’ll add a new one…
“Remember the past so you don’t forget the future.”
When all is said and done I’m looking forward to the change of pace coming with my next project.
And I want to add a little secret just for you…
2015 will see another book release from Mord McGhee. This one is a bit of a surprise…
Here’s the cover art for my Nov. 25th 2014 release of MURDER RED INK

Yeah Yeah, it’s been a while since I could look at myself straight

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Blogs…. who reads them? I’m not going to waste your time. Fast and to the point: “Murder Red Ink” is in its final stages but the date can’t be pinned down as of yet. In the mean time the fantasy book is under way with a working premise….

…but then today the plot of Tales of Eclipse Vol2 hit me out of the blue. So now both are underway. Please like facebook.com/mord.McGhee to keep up on the news.

I love this time of the year because it’s not snowing and it’s not super hot. But winter is coming…

…and winter here SUCKS. We should all band together and drive it back into the sea. Oh, speaking of the sea…. wouldn’t it be a blast to watch Saucy Jack build a sandcastle? In a kingdom by the sea….

Promising more regular blogs…

ps. If you are new to the blog or my fiction…. EVERYTHING I write is linked in one way or another. It won’t be easy to figure out but it’s there. My science fiction is a living, breathing realm that is dictated by the characters.

Global eBook Nominee 2014

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conspiracy theories, ghosts, global ebook award, scifi, thrillers, viral

Debut novel “Ghosts of San Francisco” nominated by Dan Poynter’s Global eBook Award for Science Fiction. May 2104