News from Alex

Screenwriting Tricks For Authors, the workbook based on my blog and workshops, is now available at the Amazon store for Kindle, PC and Mac.

With this workbook, you'll learn how to use techniques of film writing such as:

- the High Concept Premise
- the Three-Act, Eight-Sequence Structure
- the Storyboard Grid
- the Index Card Method of Plotting

- as well as tricks of film pacing and suspense, character arc and drive, visual storytelling, and building image systems - to structure and color your novel for maximum emotional impact, unbearable suspense and riveting pacing, no matter what genre you're writing in.

Includes detailed film breakdowns and analysis as well as chapters and resources on how to get a literary agent, writing a query letter, professional networking, and screenwriting contests.

Buy it now.

Book of Shadows

My supernatural thriller Book of Shadows comes out from St. Martin's Press in June, 2010.   An ambitious Boston homicide detective must team up with a mysterious, real-life witch from Salem to solve a string of Satanic murders.

"A wonderfully dark thriller with amazing is-it-or-isn't it suspense all the way to the end.  Highly recommended."   - Lee Child

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My paranormal thriller Shifters,  the second book in a New Orleans witch and vampire trilogy, The Keepers, with Heather Graham and Deborah LeBlanc, is set for release from Harlequin Nocturne in Fall 2010.

The Unseen

My supernatural thriller, The Unseen, inspired by the real-life paranormal studies conducted by the world-famous Rhine parapsychology lab at Duke University, is out from St. Martin's Press as of May 26, 2009.

We give away a signed copy every week. To enter the drawing, just sign up for the mailing list (fill in the box on the right-hand column on one of my webpages). 

"Destined to become a horror classic."  - Romantic Times Book Review

"The Edge of Seventeen" wins ITW Thriller award for Best Short Fiction!

You can find the story - my first short ever! - in The Darker Mask, an illustrated anthology of noir superhero stories by a fine collection of mystery, horror, and graphic novel authors, from Tor Books.

The Darker Mask is available at your favorite independent bookstore or online.


On other fronts:

The Harrowing and The Price are now available in England, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand from Little, Brown.

The Price is now available in Chinese, from Sun Color Publishing.

The Price is out in German from Random House, Btb.

I teach my Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workshop all over the country.   Send me an e mail if you'd like to be put on the mailing list and I'll let you know about upcoming workshops.