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FEO NEWS FOR WINTER 2004:
JANUARY

AWARDS

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JANUARY

JAN. 30
THE ORGAN SELLER
Matthew Warner will be signing copies of his supernatural thriller THE ORGAN DONOR at Creatures 'N Crooks (Richmond, VA., USA) on February 7 at 2 p.m. Also in attendance will be Brian Keene, author of THE RISING.

And on March 27, Warner will speak at "Wordstruck," the 2004 Literature Conference of Fairfax County Public School librarians, in Vienna, VA.

John Passarella, Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author of WITHER'S RAIN, says "In ATMOSPHERE, Michael Laimo mined fear through a layer of urban grit and decay. Now, with DEEP IN THE DARKNESS, Laimo delivers claustrophobic horror in, of all places, the great outdoors."

It just might be worth your while!

(Feo says, "The title is not to be confused with that other fine Horror novel, DEEP IN DARKNESS PEERING, by Tom Picirrili.")

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JAN. 29

THE BREED

THE BREED ON SCIFI
Back in 2001, our resident Fanboy, Chris Gage, happened upon this site after reading a good review I wrote of the film

THE BREED. I liked the Alternate History/Jewish ghetto take on vampires. AND it just so happened that Chris Gage and his then fiance (now wife) Ruth, wrote the screenplay.So this Saturday, after a few years on DVD (and still available), THE BREED, starring Adiran Paul (THE HIGHLANDER), Bokeem Woodbine (WISHMASTER 2), and Bing Lai (THE CROW), makes SciFi channel debut, January 31, at 9pm. Check out scifi.com for complete information.

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JAN. 23

FERAL

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER KNIGHT
We've had a long success list of contributors here at feoamante.com. One of our goals here, in addition to entertaining you, is to be the launching point of tomorrow's brightest talents in Horror, Thriller, Mystery, and Suspense. Before they ever had a single book out or a story in a professional publication, Stoker Award winning writers, Mike Oliveri and Brian Keene wrote reviews here.
Contributor Judi Rohrig went on to helm the Horror fiction industry newsletter, Hellnotes.
Former contributor Mike Bracken went on to be the Guest Horror Geek on the popular Comedy Central cable TV game show, Beat The Geeks.
Former contributor, Monica O'Rourke moved on to start her own publishing company, Catalyst Press.

To this list of success stories, we now add feoamante.com contributor Brian Knight. As a writer, Brian is the first of the group to get a hard cover pro fiction book available in bookstores everywhere.

In his new novel, FERAL, Shannon Pitcher is a woman trying to forget the brutal murder of her ex-husband and the loss of her only daughter. Fate brings her to a lost, scared little girl named Charity at the gate of an abandoned and haunted place called Feral Park. Now she must save Charity from the same Bogey Man who killed her own daughter, and from the wild children of Feral Park.

Congratulations Brian!

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JAN. 23
THINGS TO ROT YOUR MIND
For those of you who enjoyed, and maybe even became possessed, by my link to Badgers, Badgers, Badgers: Comes an actual lost scene from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, that you probably didn't see in the theater.

WeeblsStuff

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JAN. 20
WELCOME J. KNIGHT TO FEOAMANTE.COM
Our latest advertiser is J. Knight, who some of you may recognize - aka - as long time Horror and S.F. / Fantasy writer, Jan Strnad. Jan is best known in the comic world for his collaborations with artist Richard Corben.

RISEN

For those of you who will be in the Los Angeles area, January 24, J. Knight will be signing copies of his new Supernatural Thriller book RISEN at Dark Delicacies bookstore in Burbank.

Other writers at the signing include some time feoamante.com contributor and Bram Stoker award winner, Brian Keene. Brian will be autographing his new paperback, THE RISING (look for an upcoming review!).
Romance & Vampire writer, Karen Taylor, will also be on-hand to sign her new book, FANGS AND ANGEL WINGS.

Dark Delicacies is located at 4213 West Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA, USA, and can be reached for further information at (818)556-6660.

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JAN. 19

IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK!
"Feo! Where are you?"
"Feo! What happened, are you dead?"
"Are you closing down the site?"
"Can I have your domain name?"

No. No. No. No.

Okay, bottom line? I hadn't had this Dell computer for 1 year when the CD RW/DVD combo failed (and which, judging by the performance of the second one they sent me, was bad from the start!). I hadn't had this same computer for 2 years when the hard drive had a hard crash. That means there is no recovery - not even with boot back up on the same disk. Not even with an emergency back up disk! So as a replacement they send me a used - refurbished - hard drive (I can't buy my own, Dell uses special slot connections instead of the industry standard pin connections).

Then, after installing the basic Operating system software - from Dell - and my anti-virus and firewall: the used hard drive crashes! For this I bought Dell's extended warranty? Over a week later and many phone calls to tech support, I realized that there was no way in hell Dell was about to replace their replacement. The software tech guy (the only one in the U.S. and the snottiest), made the knee-jerk flippant, and of course, unfounded accusation of every ill trained tech support doof: "It must be your software." and refused to do any more. All the other techs tried to be far more helpful, but they didn't know what to do and all of them searched google for an answer in an attempt to help. DELL DOESN'T HAVE A SUPPORT DATABASE FOR THEIR OWN TECHS! THEY HAVE TO SEARCH THROUGH GOOGLE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS FROM OTHER DELL USERS HAVING PROBLEMS THAT CAN'T BE SOLVED BY DELL!

Lesson learned? Whatever past glories they once had, Dell is now the Packard Bell of computers. They've lost me for good!

Okay, enough whining. Luckily I made backups on disk and - after about a month of putting this hard drive through it's paces (I don't want to get burned three times!) - it's showtime!

Tomorrow will herald the new beginning starting with a new advertiser that I've long admired. Stay Tuned for Hump Day!

Thanks for the supportive emails! Yall are great!

- Feo

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CLICK IMAGE TO BUY! Starring Adrian Paul (THE HIGHLANDER), Bokeem Woodbine, and Ling Bai (THE CROW), This Alternate History movie is part Horror, Part crime, part S.F. and all Vampires. From the screenplay by our own Christos N. Gage and Ruth Fletcher Gage.